China, Chinese New Year's, and The Giant Panda Bear Themes
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Animals
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Panda
Cam from the San Diego Zoo
Giant
Panda Bear Theme
The giant panda bear is black and white. It lives in China
and eats bamboo. The giant panda pupils have vertical slits (like
cats). In China, this bear is called, "Da Xiong Mao" which means
"giant bear cat". In 1995, DNA tests prove that giant pandas are
more closely related to bears than raccoons. (Red pandas are more
related to raccoons than they are to giant pandas.) To read more
about the giant panda, go to: Giant
Panda (Endangered Species), Wildlife Species Information (and also
the below links).
Links
JungleWalk:
Pandas Videos and more.
National
Geographic Creature Feature: Pandas -- facts, photos, sounds, ...
NATURE: The
Panda Baby @ pbs.org
Pandas Theme,
Gander Academy
Panda
Bear
Connect the Dots (A-P) @ pbs.org
DLTK'S Panda
Bear Crafts for Kids
Giant Pandas at the
Smithsonian National Zoo Life video, information, and more
Giant Panda for Kids at
the Smithsonian National Zoo Find a coloring page, make a mask,
take a challenge, cross word puzzle, all about pandas, a recipe for
Chinese Fortune Cookies, and download an activity book.
Panda
- EnchantedLearning Information, coloring page, quiz, word search,
and links.
Preschoolcoloringbook.com
Arts & Crafts
You can use the photo found at: Giant
Panda at exZOOberance! for any of these crafts.
Art Project
Draw a giant panda bear.
Giant Panda Bear Paper Bag
Puppet
Cut a large circle for the pandas head. Cut two black ears, two
black hands, two black patches, and a black nose. On two small,
white circles, make a brown circle on each circle. Make a
vertical line (going up and down on each pupil). Glue on a paper
bag.
Giant Panda Bear Paper Plate
Craft
On the back of the paper plate, paint (or cut) two black eyes, two
black hands, two black patches on the paper plate, and a black
nose. On two small, white circles, make a brown circle on each
circle. Make a vertical line (going up and down on each pupil).
Glue on a paper bag.
Giant Panda Bear Mask
If you want to make a mask, follow the above paper plate craft but
don't make white circles, instead make holes in the paper plate.
Hole punch the sides of the plate and place some yarn through the
holes. Tie according to the size of the child.
Music
If You're a Giant Panda
Copyright © 2001, 2007 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
Tune of: "Happy
and You Know It (If
You're Happy)"
If you're a giant panda and you know it, eat bamboo.
If you're a giant panda and you know it, eat bamboo.
If you're a giant panda and you know it, then your face will surely
show
it.
If you're a giant panda and you know it eat bamboo.
(Note: You can have the children pretend to eat bamboo.)
Giant Panda Bear Home Economics /
Cooking / Snacks
Make sugar cookies or
biscuits. For sugar cookies, frost with frosting.
For biscuits, use cream cheese (if your diet isn't dairy-free). Add two
raisins for eyes, two for the ears, and some for the mouth.
Social Studies
- Go to World
Altas.com. Locate Asia.
Click on that continent. Now locate China. Click on China. You now will find more
facts about China on that page (including maps, the flag, and more).
- Go to CIA -
The World Factbook 2002 -- China to learn more about China.
- Go to Amazing
Chinese Accomplishments and learn more about: paper making,
printing, gunpowder (fireworks), compass, and The Great Wall. It even
has a photo of The Great Wall of China.
- Go to Countries
Theme: Flags on my web site and color a flag of China.
- Learn more about Shanghai. Go to Welcome to
Shanghai and SAS Elementary Coloring Book.
Literature
- Read a folktale or fairy tale at: China:
Dim Sum: 6 Folktales and Fairy Tales.
Music
Art
of China (Music and Comedy)
Chinese
Music/Arts
The
Internet Chinese Music Archive (If the page gives you all Chinese
symbols,
go to Multimedia
and
then click on "chinese-music".
Including children's music (children singing), traditional music, and
lots more
Traditional
Chinese Music
Joining Hands With Other
Lands (sound recording) : multicultural songs & games by
Jackie Weissman (Kimbo)
You can listen to samples of these CD at Amazon.com. (They
require RealOnePlayer.)
Beloved
Chinese Songs by Chinese Music Ensemble Of New York
Chinese
Bamboo Flute Music [Laserlight] by Various Artists - International
-
Far East - China
Chinese Lullabies Sound
Recording by Beijing Angelic Choir
Classical
Chinese Folk Music [Arc] Various Artists - International - Far East
- China
Eleven
Centuries of Traditional Music of China by Various Artists -
International - Far East - China
Masterpieces
of Chinese Traditional Music by Chinese Instrumental Ensemble
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is known for moon cakes and lanterns and they probably
have other traditions. It is usually lands on the first day of
the
Lunar January which is usually late January or early February.
History
& info - the Chinese calendar
Chinese New Year is on February 18, 2007. It is the year of
the pig.
Chinese New Year
- Year of the ...
Literature
Read a book.
Chinatown by William
Low
Dragon Parade : A Chinese New
Year Story by Steven A. Chin
Moy Moy by Leo Politi
Mr. Fong's Toy Shop by
Leo Politi It has the sheet music for "Moonlight Song".
Sam and The Lucky Money
by Karen Chinn
The Dragon New Year : A
Chinese Legend by David Bouchard
This Next New Year by
Janet Wong
For Older Children:
Moonbeams, Dumplings &
Dragon Boats : A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities &
Recipes by Nina Simonds
Red Eggs and Dragon Boats:
Celebrating Chinese Festivals by Carol Stepanchuk
Music
Chinese
Music in MP3 Format: Traditional Music Including: E17 (Moonlit
River in the Spring) and E19 (Two Fountains Reflecting Moon)
Chinese
Music: Sheet music for Sweetheart (Chinese Folk Song)
Arts & Crafts
Chinese Lantern Craft
Decorate a piece of construction paper or white paper. (In
China, red is considered to be a lucky color but you can use any color
or design.) You could do some Chinese Calligraphy
on you lantern (if you like). Fold the paper in half long
ways. On the folded side, cut about every 1 1/2 inches or
so. Be careful not to cut all the way to the end of the
paper. Unfold the paper and staple the short sides of the top,
middle, and sides together. Make it look like a lantern by
bending it.
- Go to Chinese
New Year at PrimaryGames.com. Color a picture for that years animal.
- Make a mask at Chinese New
Years Parade of Dragons @ VeryBestKids.
Chinese Writing
Learn how to write in Chinese.
Chinese
Calligraphy Worksheets
Home Economics
Easy
Moon Cakes @ DLTK
The fortune cookie does not
originate from China. You can read the article: Interesting Thing of
the Day: Fortune Cookies. to read more about this cookie. No
one really knows who was the first person to invent the first fortune
cookie (there are two people who claim to have invented it). The first
automated production took place in the U.S. by some Chinese
railroad workers in 1964. It is taken from the traditional moon
cakes that have messages in them. You can read more about it at Fortune
Cookie Co. Ltd. - History of Fortune Cookies.
Fortune Cookie Recipes
Fortune Cookies
Valentine
Activities: Fortune Cookies
Links
China:
Dim Sum Including different subjects, lesson plans (word
searches and more), etc.
Chinese
New Year Including The Harvest
Moon Festival (and moon cake recipe) and other recipes.
Chinese
New Year @ abcteach Including printables
Chinese New Year @
DLTK's Printables and crafts for China.
Chinese
New Year @ Kids Domain Crafts, books, and printables, recipes.
Chinese New Year
@ Web Holidays
Chain Snake, Dragon Puppet, Golden Snake Puppet,
Papier-mâché Chinese Dragon’s Head, Rice Painting Frog,
Origami Bubble Balloon, Origami Frog, and Origami Teapot
Chinese
New Year Festival Resources Find: printable resources for preschool
and older (monkey mask, coloring pages, etc.); links, etc.
Fascinating
Facts About China Chinese New Year, The Harvest Moon Festival, and
more.
Southwest Airlines 2004 Chinese
New Year Parade and Festival Under "Fun & Games", includes:
Shuttlecock Game, Make a Pinwheel, Make a Lantern, Coloring Book, and
Fortune Cookies.
The Moon
Festival: ChinaVista Information about this festival including two
moon
poems.
Other Links
China Theme @
abcteach Printables (including the Great Wall of China coloring
page with lines underneath it) and crafts.
CIA -
The World Factbook
The
Folk Dances of the Dai
China
Experience
China Infinity Tours Including
Chinese culture, photos and information.
China Virtual
Museums
China
Virtual Museum: Jinghong and Peacocks
China
Virtual Tours
The
Great Wall: Beijing Vista
Virtual
China
Virtual
Tours of China