Hello and welcome to another week of Tot School! I hope you enjoy my hastily thrown together version of Chinese New Year week! It wasn't my best week, due to low energy and low cash... but it woked for us!
Chinese New Year is also Korean New Year! Since our family is Korean (some by blood and some just by association) I wanted to do something specifically Korean. So I made a simplified Yut Nori game. Yut Nori is a game often played at family gatherings, such as at the Lunar New Year!
This is a fun counting game too I used a file folder to make the game board. You just need some circles around a board of some sort. You also need four popsicle sticks, with one side of each stick decorated. Players take turns tossing the sticks up into the air, and counting how many land with the decorated side up Then, whatever the number is, is the number of steps you take on the board. So simple, right? But the tossing of the sticks also makes it lots of fun! (I used polished pebbles, which we also use as math counters, for game pieces.)
Pufferfish takes her turn at Yut Nori
Next, we made a Chinese dragon puppet. This one uses popsicle sticks for handles (The popsicle sticks from the Dollar Store came in very handy this week!) and can stretch back and forth like an accordion!
Finally, Pufferfish made a tiger mask, in honor of the Year Of The Tiger.
Little Bear, who was learning about Chinese New Year in her school, also made a dragon mask!
We also made a Chinese fan and colored some Zodiac pictures, which I didn't get pictures of. And, unrelated to Chinese New Year, we counted out marbles in the brand new counting box I found at the Dollar Tree! (Its really a tiny display shelf, but it works much better as a counting box, I think!)
I just noticed the "eight" box only has four marbles in it! You'll have to trust me that it eventually did hold eight!
Stay tuned for next week... we're going to do a whole week about the Laura Numeroff books!
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