Bringing in Chinese New Year

Lesson ideas, activities and games to support your students as they discover more about Chinese New Year traditions

Tes Resources Team

Chinese lanterns for 2025 resources for Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring Festival

Explore the traditions and customs of Chinese New Year with these hand-picked resources

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, marks the first day of a brand new year in the Chinese calendar. 2025 marks the year of the Snake and the peak of the 15-day Spring Festival celebration, the Lantern Festival, will take place on 12 February, when people traditionally celebrate with meals, dancing and the giving and receiving of hongbao (red money envelopes).

Here, we have gathered together some of our favourite resources that you could use with your students to discover more about Chinese New Year.

Resources for young learners

Chinese New Year of the Wood Snake
EYFSMathsGames

Chinese New Year of the Wood Snake

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Chinese New Year of the Wood Snake is a fun interactive Maths subitising game to develop early number knowledge and skills using amounts from 1 to 5. Children are presented with varying arrangements and amounts on each slide. Children match the amount shown with the corresponding symbolic number di...
Chinese New Year Playdough Mats
PrintPlayLearn

Chinese New Year Playdough Mats

FREE
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Chinese New Year Playdough Mats Five different playdough mats approximately A4 size for example; make noodles, fortune cookies, lanterns, a fan and chopsticks. A great activity with playdough to encourage different use e.g. rolling, turning, pulling, squashing. An Early Years (EYFS) and Primary ...

Primary resources

Chinese New Year 2025
Krazikas

Chinese New Year 2025

£3.00
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 80-slide PowerPoint presentation on the Chinese New Year, (Spring Festival) which lasts for 15 days culminating in the Lantern Festival. This is an ideal assembly at any time during that 15 day period. The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to anim...
FREE KS1 Chinese New Year Activities
hoppytimes

FREE KS1 Chinese New Year Activities

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A fun set of activities to celebrate Chinese New Year with your KS1/ lower KS2 students. The resource includes: Colouring pages Write your name in Chinese activity Word search (with answers) 2 Colour by Number activities 2 Chinese New Year mystery pictures (with answers) It is a .pdf f...
Class Assembly & Resources: Chinese New Year 2025
Teach4Uresources

Class Assembly & Resources: Chinese New Year 2025

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**Class Assembly & Resources: Chinese New Year 2025** * Approximately 10 - 15 minutes long. * Suitable for 5 - 9 years. * Full script (Word and PDF), PowerPoint and music attached. * Also includes a small Tai Chi routine for a class to perform (slides 6 - 18). . **Main topics covered:** - Chines...
Chinese New Year
Krazikas

Chinese New Year

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This resource contains a Chinese New Year themed word search. You may also be interested in: **[Chinese New Year Themed Puzzle Pack](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/chinese-new-year-puzzle-pack-11195886)** The resource contains eight Chinese New Year themed puzzles and includes: Two Word S...