Roundup of Free Printable Coloring Sheets for Chinese New Year

 

Here is a roundup of coloring pages that you can print for free for Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival. They are a quick and easy way to celebrate the new year holiday.

Printable Coloring Sheets for Chinese New Year

Printable Chinese Zodiac Coloring Sheets

Printable Coloring Pages for the Chinese New Year--Dragons

Printable Snake Crafts for Chinese New Year

 January 29 is the beginning of the Year of the Snake, and here is a list of articles that offer free printable craft projects to celebrate the holiday. 

Printable Children’s Activity Sheets for the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Snake--Information sheets, comprehension questions, writing practice, maze, word search, word scramble. Introduces children to Chinese writing style and vocabulary.

Year of the Snake Crafts: Printable Kid Craft Projects for Chinese New Year--Lanterns, puppets, envelopes, paper plate face, coloring sheets

Printable Envelopes and Bookmarks for Year of the Snake, Chinese New Year

Printable Children's Craft Greeting Cards to Color for the Year of the Snake

Printable Coloring Pages for Chinese New Year: "Year of the Snake"

Printable Chinese Zodiac Coloring Sheets

Printable Coloring Sheets for Chinese New Year

Kid Crafts for Chinese New Year: Quick and Easy Printables and Projects for Lunar New Year--panda papercuts, lanterns, dragons, craft books to buy

Here's a play that children can act out:

Chinese Zodiac Story for Kids: The Animals' Race

And here's a booklist with good books for Chinese New Year:

Best Books for Kids About China: Chinese New Year Resources

A Roundup of Free Printable Crafts and Resources for Chinese New Year: Year of the Snake 2025

January 29 is the beginning of the Year of the Snake, and I've pulled together a list of resources that offer free printable craft projects to celebrate the holiday:

Printable Children’s Activity Sheets for the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Snake

Year of the Snake Crafts: Printable Kid Craft Projects for Chinese New Year

Printable Envelopes and Bookmarks for Year of the Snake, Chinese New Year

Printable Children's Craft Greeting Cards to Color for the Year of the Snake

Printable Coloring Pages for Chinese New Year: "Year of the Snake"

Printable Chinese Zodiac Coloring Sheets

Printable Coloring Sheets for Chinese New Year

Kid Crafts for Chinese New Year: Quick and Easy Printables and Projects for Lunar New Year

Here's a play that children can act out:

Chinese Zodiac Story for Kids: The Animals' Race

And here's a booklist with good books for Chinese New Year:

Best Books for Kids About China: Chinese New Year Resources

 

A Roundup of Crafts for Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

 Here is a roundup of super simple and quick crafts for the Year of the Rabbit.  Each article features printable projects that usually only require basic supplies like paper, scissors, crayons and and glue.  You’ll find patterns to print for a variety of lanterns, bookmarks, greeting cards, coloring sheets, paper bag puppets and the like.  It’s the easiest way to make some decorative crafts for a multicultural celebration featuring Chinese New Year.

Printable Children’s Activity Sheets for the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Rabbit

Year of the Rabbit Crafts: Printable Kid Projects for Chinese New Year

Printable Envelopes and Bookmarks for Year of the Rabbit, Chinese New Year

Printable Children's Craft Greeting Cards to Color for the Year of the Rabbit

Printable Coloring Pages for the Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Rabbit

Books For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

 

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of May. The month of May was chosen because it marks two important dates. On May7, 1843, the first Japanese immigrants arrive in the United States. On May 10, 1869, Golden Spike Day celebrated the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad which counted so many Chinese workers among the laborers who worked to build the western side. 

Here are a bunch of booklists that include engaging books for all age levels of children that will introduce them to Asian Heritage:

Seeing Asian-Americans: Best Books for Children

20 Children's Books Featuring Asians and Asian-Americans

Seeing Asian-Americans: Great Chapter Books for Tweens

Seeing Asian-Americans: Great Books for Teens

Seeing Asian-Americans: Children's Fiction and Nonfiction on Asian Lives, Culture, and History

Best Books for Kids About China: Chinese New Year Resources

Printable Template for Tiger Lantern - Chinese New Year

 All you need are two pieces of paper to make this cute lantern craft. It's a take on those cute paper lanterns we used to make in elementary school--just add some tiger facial features. 

This craft, along with several other templates is on this site: 

Printable Templates for Year of the Tiger Lanterns (Round)

You can find more lanterns to make on this site: 

Printable Templates for Year of the Tiger Lanterns (Square)

Printable Coloring Sheets for the Year of the Tiger

 What could be a simpler craft than a Year of the Tiger coloring sheet? These include links to printable files, so it's a snap to choose the ones you want on your print and print them up. I also like th fact that they inlcude the phrase "Happy New Year" in English, Chinese, and pinyin (a system that uses letters to indicate how the words are pronounced.) And some are soo cute! There are lots to choose from, with 15 in portrait orientation and 155 in landscape orientation. It's a quick and easy way to celebrate Chinese New Year, The Year of the Tiger.

Quick and Easy Crafts & Activities for Year of the Ox

 

Here is a roundup of sites that have quick and easy projects you can do for Year of the Ox. Most of them only require paper, though there are a few that need you to have a paper plate or lunch sack on hand.

Printable Year of the Ox Projects and Crafts for the Chinese New Year

Year-of-the-Ox Lanterns for the Chinese New Year (Printable Templates)

Printable Bookmarks for Year of the Ox: Kids' Crafts for Chinese New Year

Printable Coloring Pages for the Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Ox

Printable Children’s Activity Sheets for the Year of the Ox

Printable Lucky Red Envelopes for the Year of the Ox

Printable Children's Craft Greeting Cards for the Year of the Ox

Quick and Easy Craft Ideas for Year of the Rat

Dozens of Printable Projects for Year of the Rat

Here is a roundup of sites that have quick, easy (and inexpensive) craft ideas for the Year of the Rat, which starts January 25, 2020. All these sites have links to templates you can print out, which makes them a fast way to come up with a project.

Printable Year of the Rat Craft Projects for the Chinese New Year

Printable Coloring Pages for the Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Rat

Printable Envelopes and Bookmarks for Year of the Rat

Printable Children's Craft Greeting Cards to Color for the Year of the Rat

10 Printable Children's Greeting Cards for the Year of the Rat

Printable Lucky Envelope for Year of the Dog

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One of the traditions of Chinese New Year is to give lucky red envelopes with money--especially to children and other unmarried relatives.

Red is a lucky color for the Chinese, and the writing on it is often done in gold to symbolize prosperity.

Click here to get a printable pattern. Print it out on red paper and use a gold Sharpie or crayon to color in the character for dog.

Books for Boys Adopted from ChinaBooks for Boys

Books for Boys Adopted from China

For the longest time, mostly girls were adopted from China. But, in the last few years, that has started to change, and we are seeing lots more boys.

This site has books that feature boys with Chinese heritage.

Printable Bookmarks for Year of the Rooster

Printable Bookmarks for Year of the Rooster

This is an easy craft that you can use with a group for Year of the Rooster. Just print, cut, and go. Bookmarks include pinyin words and Chinese characters for "Happy New Year." You can click for printable templates.

Printable Greeting Cards for Year of the Rooster

Printable Greeting Cards for Year of the Rooster

There are cards to just print and color, and then there are other cards for which you have a template to make a rooster that you can attach to a card. You can get the templates and instructions here. 

Coloring Pages for Year of the Rooster

Coloring Pages for Year of the Rooster

This is the simplest idea of all if you are doing a Chinese New Year program in this Year of the Rooster. Just print out these ready-to-go coloring pages, give the kids markers, colored pencils, or crayons, and let them go to it.You can find the printable templates here. 

Printables for Year of the Rooster

Printable Crafts for the Year of the Rooster

The year of the rooster will be here soon. It starts January 28, 2017. If you are a teacher, librarian, or parent who has found yourself in charge of Chinese New Year activities this year, this site will be a godsend. It has dozens of easy crafts that you can print and go. Greeting cards, bookmarks, coloring pages, lanterns, these kid-friendly roosters are a simple way to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Happy Spring Festival!

Great Books for Families with Children from China

Have you seen the book sites by Adele Jeunette? She does a great job of bringing together all kinds of books about China and Chinese-Americans in these sites. There are books for all ages of kids, as well as parents, and include novels, folktales, nonfiction books, cookbooks--just about everything you could think of. Here are the links:

Best Books for Chinese New Year

Best Books for Boys

Best Books for Elementary School Girls

Best Books for Tween Girls

Best Books for Teen Girls

Best Books for Moms

Best Books on Adoption from China

Best Resources for a Homeland Trip to China