Last week we explored some of the traditions of Lunar New year in some cultures. We made red paper lanterns and tried to decorate them, we decorated our home corner and cleaned it read for the New Year. We also made red envelopes with golden coins in and counted the golden coins carefully. We also read several stories with Lunar New Year as a key thread. Some of us made dragon puppets. We also played memory card games to help us remember some of the elements of Lunar New Year, we also wrote wishes for our wish tree and enjoyed scarf dancing.

Last week as part of our woodland Wednesday session we learnt about two key elements of Lunar New Year traditions: the story of the animals of the Chinese zodiac and the story of Nain. We learnt that this year is the year of the horse and so we made hobby horses from old socks stuffed with leaves and tied onto a stick. We also made scary faces and noises to scare off Nain!