Celebrate Chinese New Year with a Contest

by Jimmie on January 25, 2010

Chinese New Year is on its way! February 14th is the first day of the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year.

Goodbye Ox (2009). Hello Tiger (2010)!

In honor of China’s most important holiday, I’m hosting a contest!

To enter, just celebrate Chinese New Year in your family in your own unique way. Then blog it. You can be elaborate or simple. Anything from a single coloring page to a full unit study will qualify. Chinese New Year Unit Study has lots of links to free printables and activity ideas to make it easy for you.

Here are a few simple ideas:

Design your own red packets (hong bao).
Learn about the Chinese zodiac and the year of the tiger.
Put banners up on your door.
Each Chinese food with chopsticks.
Make a lantern craft.
Wear red and yellow, the most festive colors of Chinese culture.
Pray for the people of China.

I’ll select two winners, who can choose between two gifts. Both gifts are guaranteed to be authentic, “Made in China” treasures, mailed straight from China to you, anywhere in the world. I know that you don’t have a house full of stuff made in China, right? (wink)

1. An embroidered decoration with the symbolic animals of the 12 year cycle in Chinese folklore. The picture at left shows only the top third.

2. A colorful cardboard lantern that you can assemble.

Plus I’ll throw some additional, surprise goodies into each package.

I’ll choose two more winners to get these prizes:

a blog button, twitter background or meme button from Darcy at Graphically Designing
one Activity Village download and a Discovering the Continents Bundle from CurrClick

Here are the three simple rules:

Blog about your activity (pictures are always a plus).
Add the button to your post; there’s HTML below to make it easy.
Post a link to your blog post in a comment right here on this page. Deadline is Feb. 21, 2010. I’ll announce the winners on Feb. 25.

Now get to celebrating! Happy New Year!

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Elizabeth January 25, 2010 at 10:39 pm

Oh, I love your header actually! I will have to take a look at your resources on China, I have relatives who recently moved there! I was planning to introduce the concept of the Chinese New Year to my girls this year, I don’t think they know about it!

Ticia January 26, 2010 at 2:24 am

Oh, you’re making me so tempted to switch what we’re planning to do for geography and go with continents instead……. So tempting.
.-= Ticia´s last blog ..Montessori Monday =-.

Emily Darling January 26, 2010 at 3:42 am

This sounds like fun, Jimmie. One question, though. I’m not sure what to do to add the button to my blog. Can you or someone else run me through Adding Buttons for Dummies?
.-= Emily Darling´s last blog ..First Time Read =-.

Jimmie January 26, 2010 at 9:29 am: Good question, Emily!
When writing a blog post, you need to look for how to access the code or HTML or source (any of those words may be used). Then paste the HTML I gave you in your blog post’s code/HTML/source. When you click back off of code/HTML/source, you will see the button appear. (Like magic!)

I don’t use Blogger, but in looking at this site, it appears that there is a tab in your editor screen that says EDIT HTML. Click there and put the button code where you want it. Then click on COMPOSE again, and it will go back to “normal” view.

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Marsha January 26, 2010 at 6:33 am

what a fun idea!!! i’ll be sure to share it!
.-= Marsha´s last blog ..F-R-I-D-A-Y =-.

Amy @ Hope Is the Word January 27, 2010 at 2:05 am

Hmmm. . . I think this might be a good time for us to pull out The Story About Ping. . .

I love your blog, btw, Jimmie. You’ve really inspired me!
.-= Amy @ Hope Is the Word´s last blog ..What’s on My Nightstand::January Wrap-Up =-.

Myra January 28, 2010 at 2:14 am

Since I do not blog, how do I go about entering the contest, or is it exclusive to bloggers? I have begun our mini-unit with my homeschooled g’kids.

Jimmie January 28, 2010 at 9:32 am: @Myra — good question! Do you have an online photo sharing site that you use? If not, get a free account at either Flickr (or at Photobucket). Upload your pictures and add some captions for explanation. You can link to your photostream instead of blog post. That would work instead of a blog.

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Mama King January 29, 2010 at 11:09 pm

Hello, heard about your great contest from another blogging buddy. Here are my contributions:

http://4crazykings.blogspot.com/2010/01/start-of-asian-new-year-and-valentines.html

http://4crazykings.blogspot.com/2010/01/asian-new-year-craft-tiger-lanterns.html
.-= Mama King´s last blog ..Happy New Year Valentine: Coloring Page & Printable Card =-.

Candace February 4, 2010 at 11:15 am

Ok, here is my post. I need to go back and add your little button, forgot that part, I’ll do that tonight! but here is the link!

http://candacemercyisnew.blogspot.com/2010/02/chinese-new-year-our-great-wall.html

great FUN!!

Bronwyn February 13, 2010 at 1:55 pm

We really enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. I have also loved reading all the great ideas here. This is our post.
http://lovingmylifeasamotherandawife.blogspot.com/2010/02/chinese-new-years-at-our-house.html

Mrs. Hewett February 16, 2010 at 11:17 pm

Ni hao Jimmie,
Xin Nian Kuai La!
We had a lot of fun for our CNY celebration. We weren’t nearly as adventurous as you food-wise. We stuck to chicken and beef – well, I couldn’t identify the meat in the jiao zi, but as far as I’m concerned, it was all chicken/beef! The only firecrackers we had was the animated gif on my CNY post here: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/creekwoodchronicles/764763/
I hope the firecrackers don’t last all the way to Lantern Festival!
Blessings to you all,
Karen H.

Helen February 17, 2010 at 7:51 am