Annual Chinese New Year's Parade

Miss Suzy designed this collaborative dragon!

Our Chinese New Year's Parade on Jan 31st was a big hit! Our collaborative dragon designed by Mrs. Suzy (on the wall in the Practical Life area), achieves the scaly effect by rolling pins taped with bubble wrap dipped in paint along with a potato masher; check her/him out! Each child made their own dragon, complete with crepe-paper tails and lots of glitter. We put on our Chinese Bamboo Flute music and the children swirled and danced. 

The firecrackers did an excellent job of scaring away bad luck (firecrackers = strips of bubble wrap taped down on the floor for the kids to march over). At snack time we sang, "gung hay fat choy to you" (ask the kids) and welcomed in the Year of the Horse.

Since the Chinese New Year celebration lasts fifteen days, we plan on having more (impromptu) parades...whenever we want.

  

  

Thank you everyone who helped out with the parade. If you have any pictures/videos, could you send them on to Karie Houghton (the nice lady who does our blog)?