Chinese/Lunar New Year art activity and colouring sheets

Updated and expanded for 2025, The Year of the Snake, this Chinese lantern activity and colouring sheet bundle provides a versatile and flexible resource that can be used for years to come when studying the Chinese Lunar New Year.
This resource features A4 PDFs of detailed line drawings to engage and inspire students studying this topic. There are options for students to add their own artwork within 2 activities.
This resource contains:

Teachers notes - featuring ideas for using the resource and other helpful information.

12 ‘Happy New Year’ posters, each featuring a different zodiac animal insert.

‘Happy New Year’ poster with a blank insert space for students to draw in their own animal

Chinese Lantern activity featuring a base lantern poster to colour and cut out to decorate the classroom. This is completed with the animal motif sheets.

Cut and colour animal motif sheets featuring all 12 zodiac animals. For choice and ease of printing these are supplied in 2 formats, 2 sheets each containing 6 different animal motif, and 12 sheets each containing 6 motifs of a single animal.

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