This Waving Chinese Lucky Cat craft is so cute! A great Chinese New Year craft for kids to bring you good fortune! (Printable template in B/W & 3 colours)
It's Japan's Foundation Day & we're celebrating with amazing Joyful Japan Crafts for Kids! Take your pick from Origami, Kokeshi or Hinamatsuri!
Get your classroom ideas to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Virtual field trips, children's books, engaging crafts and more!
Fun, easy paper plate crafts for children of all ages, including seasonal craft projects for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.
Make these cute Japanese fans with your kids in honor of Girls' Day. I've included a free printable guide to make this an easy craft!
These Thailand crafts for kids are perfect for celebrating Thailand Constitution Day and King Bhumibol's birthday - both of which are in December!
These Phenomenal Philippines Crafts for Kids are perfect to learn more about the amazing culture of this island country in South East Asia!
While everyone just finished welcoming in the New Year, my family and I are awaiting another New Year’s celebration. January 28th is the Chinese Lunar New Year and for my Vietnamese family it is Tết . *This post contains affiliate links* I have been talking to my daughter about the upcoming holiday, so over the weekend, we made […]
In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, Multicultural Kid Blogs is sponsoring a blog hop, and you are invited! We are celebrating the cultures and peoples of this diverse region by sharing our posts and asking other bloggers to do the same! Our hope is to create a wonderful resource for celebrating Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with children. Be sure to visit the co-hosts of the blog hop (listed below) and share your own posts at the linky at the bottom! You can find even more resources on this region in our Asia and Australia and Oceania boards on Pinterest! Co-Hosts Multicultural Kid Blogs Crafty Moms Share Bicultural Mama Finding Dutchland Kid World Citizen Marie's Pastiche All Done Monkey Tiny Tapping Toes Creative World of Varya Miss Panda Chinese For the blog hop we decided to share some of the Asian-Pacific Island crafts we have been doing as well as a few books we have enjoyed! We have been having fun exploring games, puzzles, stories and crafts! For our crafts we used three books as our main resources: Asian-American Crafts Kids Can Do! by Sarah Hartman, Hands-On Asia: Art Activities for All Ages by Yvonne Y. Merrill, and Asian Crafts by Judith Hoffman Corwin. We started by looking at China with a Chinese Tanagram Puzzle. I made one from a square piece of memo paper. I copied the line placement from Asian Crafts. Then I showed Hazel the pictures of ways to arrange the shapes and she chose some of her favorites and made them. For more ideas on looking at China, check out the posts here. Next we looked at Japan with some origami. I made some shapes for Hazel and she and I made a few. To make these origami animals, we followed instructions from two books: Super Quick Origami Animals by Nick Robinson and Making Origami Animals Step by Step by Michael G. La Fosse. One of the things I really liked about making origami and about the tanagram is that you can review geometrical shapes. We talked about folding the paper into rectangles or triangles. For older children you can go into more detail and talk about right triangles, etc. We also made Japanese fans. Now Hazel has a thing for fans, so she loved this. We followed instructions using Asian-American Crafts Kids Can Do! except instead of cutting out circles we used paper plates. To make them you need a paper plate or a paper circle and three popsicle/craft sticks. Two of the sticks are glued in a v-shape next to the handle stick to support your circle. For more ideas on looking at Japan, check out here. We also had fun making a Nepal snow leopard mask. Hazel pointed out how we saw snow leopards at the zoo recently. Again I used a paper plate and cut the pattern we found in Hands-On Asia. Not reading the directions closely I cut out the eyes to make it a wearable mask instead of a piece of art. Then I let Hazel have fun. I cut out the mouth, tongue and ears for her as well as using the book's pattern for the nose. I also followed the instructions in Asian Crafts for a simplified version of Pachisi, a game from India. I decided to make it on the computer instead of hand drawing all the squares. As a result, you can download what I made by clicking the picture above or here. We decided to use glass beads and rocks as the playing pieces. Hazel could not wait to play and started to play with Ducky. To start you put the piece on its matching color in the corner of the board. The first person rolls the die (you have to make one either by cutting mine out and taping it together or getting a wooden cube and painting/coloring sides). If the person rolls his or her own color they get to move one square counterclockwise and then roll again. If the person rolls white, they just get to roll again. If they roll any other color the turn is over and the die goes to the person to the right. Once the piece makes its way around the board the player than has to go up the center spoke on their color. The person to make it to the middle first wins. For more ideas on learning about India, check out these posts. Hazel's and Ducky's Game In Play We have also been enjoying some stories from the different countries and about children adjusting to moving from the country to America and such. Here are some of our favorites. For more book choices, check out my Asian-Pacific Book Round-Up post. For all of our Asian-Pacific Island related posts check out here. And of course check out all the great ideas shared in this blog hop!! Feel free to share your Asian-Pacific crafts, books, and more as well!! An InLinkz Link-up
These Thailand crafts for kids are perfect for celebrating Thailand Constitution Day and King Bhumibol's birthday - both of which are in December!
Discover a cute and Creative idea for Tiny artists - The Handprint Henna Craft for Kids - Perfect for Diwali or any Celebration!
I am the most fortunate person to receive this beautiful card from my friend Gene L. who was visiting from Las Vegas. I can't tell you how b...
My kids are having fun with Korean Lunar New Year crafts and activities, especially the Korean pellet drum, fan, and coloring pages!
Looking for a fun way to Chinese New Year Craft to celebrate the Lunar Calendar, this Chinese Dragon Puppet is just the thing. This Chinese Dragon Puppet
These Beautiful New Zealand Crafts for Kids will have you amazed and spellbound by this gorgeous country and it's culture!
It's Japan's Foundation Day & we're celebrating with amazing Joyful Japan Crafts for Kids! Take your pick from Origami, Kokeshi or Hinamatsuri!
Looking for a really gorgeous origami koi fish tutorial? I just love how fun this one looks. It's an advanced tutorial - have fun!
Easy Asian Conical DIY Paper Hats are a hit for Chinese New Year, Asian culture learning, homeschooling projects, themed parties and more!
It's Japan's Foundation Day & we're celebrating with amazing Joyful Japan Crafts for Kids! Take your pick from Origami, Kokeshi or Hinamatsuri!
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link More Paper origami Japanese dolls represent the epitome of Japanese finesse and culture. The detail, ranging from the multi-step processes in which each doll is created and loving folded, to the wonderfully decorated special origami paper used for it’s kimono and the deep black crepe paper used for it’s […]
I used my long forgotten paper crimper to make this card. Scallop is made with EK scallop border punch. The hanger is made with EK 3/4 and 7/8 circle punch. Colored with Copic markers. stamps: Four Dolls, Asian Elements, Tiny Chinese Wishes
My kids are having fun with Korean Lunar New Year crafts and activities, especially the Korean pellet drum, fan, and coloring pages!
It's Japan's Foundation Day & we're celebrating with amazing Joyful Japan Crafts for Kids! Take your pick from Origami, Kokeshi or Hinamatsuri!
A quick and easy tutorial to make paper dolls - With this Japanese paper doll tutorial you can make dolls of different sizes and color, use it as bookmarks or present it as gifts.
Here's a birthday card I put together for my bestest blogging pal, Patti of Creations By Patti blog. It's another box style card, but with windows on all four panels; I believe it's called a "Go Round Card". This is only the second time I've attempted this type of card (first one was for my daughter's birthday last year). And since I have yet to find a tutorial for this card, making this continues to be a "big experiment" for me. For Patti's card, I knew I had to go with her favorite Asian theme. I was inspired by shoji screen type table lamps like these... ...and decided I would use the delightful kokeshi dolls from the books by Annelore Parot to adorn her card. Here's a view of the first two panels: And the next two panels: The box panels with windows were created in MTC by joining and welding rectangles, ovals and fancy label shapes together. MTC also rendered the kokeshi and panda images into cutting files which were cut using a Silhouette Cameo. Here's Michiko and Emi.... ...Yumi and Aoki.... ...and of course little panda. I used a Quickutz die to cut the branches and sakura blossoms are cut from Punch Bunch and Carl punches. A 1/16-inch EK circle punch was used for the flower centers. Kokeshi faces were cut from white cardstock and colored with Copics; and kimonos were cut from digitized washi paper. Here's a peek at the bottom of the box which shows how the struts that hold each kokeshi doll in place are adhered to the inside of the box. As you can see, the construction is very similar to the struts inside the very popular "Card In A Box" type card except the struts on this card run parallel to the four sides and are adhered to each other as well as to the inside of the box. And finally, here's the card flattened, which needed a box type envelope about a half inch in depth to fit in. I have to admit it took me quite awhile to finish this card. Though it was quite challenging and fun, I don't think I'll have the time or patience to do this card too often. I guess you could say this was a one of a kind card for my one of a kind very, very special friend!
Use watercolor paint to create colorful paper fish windsocks!
Paper lanterns are one of the great home decorations adding an oriental touch to home interiors
It's Japan's Foundation Day & we're celebrating with amazing Joyful Japan Crafts for Kids! Take your pick from Origami, Kokeshi or Hinamatsuri!
If you are wanting to create more stunning DIY decor for parties and events you will love these easy DIY paper lanterns. You can make this cute craft with simple paper and enjoy creating more stylish DIY decorations for your home. This is a perfect paper craft for adults and teens.
There is less than a month and our festive New Year spirit is rising again. Just like a sleeping fire dragon, who is raising from a volcano. Yes, it is
Celebrate Girls' Day by making these DIY Hinamatsuri Dolls! All you need are these free templates, toilet paper rolls, markers and glue!
Celebrate New Year & Chinese New Year with engaging art and writing activities. Encourage students to reflect, set new goals, and plan New Year resolutions
Learn all about Korea's harvest festival with these Charming Chuseok Crafts & Activities for Kids - includes games, food and more!
Make your own pretty DIY paper lantern for Chinese New Year with this design, download and tutorial by handcrafted lifestyle expert Lia Griffith
It's Japan's Foundation Day & we're celebrating with amazing Joyful Japan Crafts for Kids! Take your pick from Origami, Kokeshi or Hinamatsuri!
For my Kids Arts & Crafts Workshop (age 4-7) last week, we went on an imaginary journey to South Korea and learn about their mid-autumn harvest festival called Chuseok which took place on 29 September (but people celebrate the festivity from the 28th - 30th Sept). As usual, we started our workshop with a simple warm-up exercise which was to colour in songpyeon - a traditional Korean food made of rice powder and shaped like a half-moon (see below). I like starting off my lessons with a warm-up ac
