Chinese New Year Lantern Game
Need a Chinese New Year art project to design a lantern for your bulletin board? Imagine your hallway decorated with these Chinese lanterns and writing prompts for the Lunar New Year. The step by step drawing guide, PowerPoint and demonstration video make perfect no prep, art sub plans for elementary art.
That’s right. Sit back while I teach your students how to play the roll a dice game and design the Chinese lantern myself! Kids can also choose patterns using the āyou pickā worksheet or digital spinnersāwhatever works best for you!
Plus, itāll help cash-strapped teachers like you plan projects for Chinese New Year using only markers. Yes, you can watercolor paint with markers!
What’s Included
Iāve designed 3 different ways for students to attempt this art project. All will motivate kids to create! Choose which way works best for your classes:
- Roll a dice game to add randomness to your studentās artwork
- āYou Pickā art worksheet for kids to choose their own patterns
- Digital spinner wheels, so kids can randomly pick patterns and you can integrate technology
- Printable dice template in case you have no dice
- Step-by-step picture directions to guide students through the art process
- Chinese lantern template which kids can draw directly on it or transfer it to heavy drawing paper
- Drawing practice worksheet, so kids can practice drawing patterns
- 2 Writing prompts, so you can tie this drawing project to literacy
- 2 Coloring pages that you can use for absent students or hand out as a classroom prize
- Helpful Tips & Tricks handout with teacher directions to help guide the lesson
- Step by Step Video Tutorial, with optional captions
How to Use My Chinese New Year Lantern Project
The best part about this lantern project is that itās flexible and can be used in many ways throughout your classroom. It’s great for maternity or emergency art sub plans, early finisher activities, indoor recess, or even an after-school art club.
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable Printable PDF (Chinese New Year Lantern Project)
- 1 Non-Editable PowerPointĀ
- 1 Demonstration Video
- 5 Digital Spinner Videos (downloadable, and links to them on Google Slides and YouTube)
- Paperless Google Drive Digital Resource
Why You’ll Love It
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We had Chinese exchange students visit our school and we used this activity while they visited during Chinese New Year.Ā Very fun and creative! Ā
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Such a wonderful & fun activity to do in the classroom to continue their learning on Chinese New Year. It also turned out to be a wonderful addition to our display in the hallway!
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A great activity for Chinese New Year Art. Students loved creating their own lanterns and were extremely engaged when using the dice to help “choose” each pattern for the different sections. We used watercolours to paint them and they turned out beautifully! Great resource!Ā
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Kids loved the craft, and the writing activity was fun and engaging!
My students really enjoyed this project. The students really enjoyed having so many examples of different patterns they could use, and some were even inspired to make their own. This was a really cute project to hang in our windows – they got lots of compliments!
I am in charge of our Read Across America week celebration. I choose this resource for one of our 4th through 6th grade activities for the story “Eyes That Speak to the Stars”. The teachers love the art project for their students.
This made my life so much easier! It was easy to implement, aligned with standards.
I am a Kindergarten through Twelfth-grade Art teacher. I have taught at my school for twenty-eight years. My older students start asking me, in January, what project we are going to create to celebrate the Chinese New Year. They loved this because it wasn’t just an Art project. This lesson includes information and the opportunity to write.