Year of the Tiger Activities for Kids

With the Chinese New Year falling on Valentine's Day this year, it's a double reason to celebrate! Bring the celebration alive for your kids with these simple, but fun ideas.

Chinese New Year Party Activities

Have the children draw and color pictures of tigers. Alternatively, using orange and brown Play Dough, the children can create small tiger figures.

How about creating a large paper crepe tiger that the children can place over their bodies? Have them line up and run together in a line creating one tiger. Using the large pieces of crepe paper, have the kids use colored pencils to create a tiger's body, soft orange with brown stripes. This would make a great video!

Play, "Tiger May I?"

Play Pin the Stripe on the Tiger.

Play Tiger Tag. Designate one child to be a tiger and then have them play the traditional game of tag. As everyone is tagged, all become tigers.

Serve the kids a sampling of Chinese food to begin the New Year. Dumplings, noodles, crispy wontons, and rice would make good choices. Don't forget the Fortune Cookies!

Send the kids home with paper lanterns. Purchase inexpensive plain ones from a craft store and have the kids decorate them and parade them out of your home as they depart.