Chinese New Year Activities
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Chinese New Year Party Invitations
Custom made fortune cookies with party details as the fortune
Scrolls of the Chinese Calendar, with your party info prominently displayed!
Create your own “Chinese Takeout” style menu, with party details as the menu.
Personalize each invitation by writing your guests names on the invitation in Chinese
Chinese New Year Decorations
Red lights
Red Lanterns
Red, Red, Red – Red is an important color of the holiday
Drape walls with Red Fabric
Posters with Chinese drawings, letters, etc.
Travel posters of China (ask a travel agent if they have some they could give you!)
Chinese zodiac posters
Chinese New Year Food
Serve your Chinese favorites buffet style or family style
For desert, serve something sticky and sweet. The Chinese believe that the kitchen god can’t report any bad things about your household if his mouth is stuck together from the dessert.
Serve Mandarin Oranges, a traditional symbol of the Chinese New Year Festival.
Chinese New Year Activities and Games
Have a nametag for each guest with their name written in Chinese
Do temporary tattoos with Chinese letters
Firecrackers – Scare away the evil spirits! Shoot off some fireworks (if your community will allow it) or light some sparklers.
Makeup Fortune Cookie Sayings
Play Chinese Dominoes
Decorate Chinese New Year red envelopes
Create glowing lanterns
Learn Chinese paper cutting
Enjoy hot tea and good luck candy
Face painting for the current year's animal
Learn some Kung Fu
Make paper lanterns or other Chinese New Year crafts, such as planting a
flower associated with Chinese New Year
Have a Chinese New Year Dragon Dance (or lion dance)– hire some performers or “make” your own lion or dragon head out of paper mache!
See if there is a Chinese New Year parade or Chinese New Year Festival in your town and go together (if there isn’t one, make your own…especially if there are kids celebrating!)
Watch some Chinese movies …including Mulan or Kung Fu Panda for the kids.
Chinese New Year Gifts and Party Favors:
Chinese “Handcuffs” Finger Traps
Sparklers
Calendars
Red Packets of money
Chinese Dragon Masks
Packets of tea
Chinese New Year Flowers
Mandarin Oranges
A CD of Chinese New Year Music
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