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

 

Easy Printable Dragon Decor for Chinese New Year

This is a super simple, quick, easy and cheap way to make dragon decor for the upcoming Lunar New Year. Use the free printable pages to print out the head, tail, and legs, and then use whatever you have on hand to make the center part, which is the body. 

Here are some things the article says you can use:

Yarn

Ribbon

Fabric

Paper Chain

Accordion-Folded Paper

Toilet Paper Roll

Cylindrical Salt Box

Cupcake Liners

In no time, you'll have a great decoration, and all you'll need is some paper and a few odds and ends.

 

A Roundup of Quick Printable Crafts for Year of the Dragon Chinese Zodiac

 

2024 is the Year of the Dragon, and celebrations in most of Asia start February 10.

Here is a roundup of sites that have quick and easy ideas for crafts to celebrate this holiday with templates that are absolutely free to print. Most of the crafts just require some paper, something to color with like crayons, markers, or colored pencils, and maybe some scissors.

How to Craft Chinese Dragons with Printable Templates

Printable Children’s Activity Sheets for the Chinese New Year: "Year of the Dragon"

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

Printable Red Envelopes and Bookmarks for Year of the Dragon, Chinese New Year

Printable Children's Craft: Greeting Cards to Color for the "Year of the Dragon"

Printable Coloring Pages for the Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon

Happy crafting!

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

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.

Craft Ideas with Printablesfor Year of the Tiger

 Adele Jeunette has been busy. She is interested in China because she's mom to a daughter from China. (So am I.) And she has put together a whole bunch of articles with craft ideas for 2022--the Year of the Tiger. They are so easy to make because she includes peintable patterns. All you have to do is print, color, cut, assemble, and go. She has lots of quick ideas like books, coloring sheets and lanterns. 

Here is Adele Jeunette's site.  You'll see all kinds of articles with printables for Chinese New Year crafts.

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.

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.