The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is approaching. When I think of the happiness I felt when I was a child, counting the days and looking forward to New Year’s Eve, I feel that the older I get, the less flavorful the New Year will be, which is a pity. Since having a child, I attach great importance to spending holidays with my child, especially the Spring Festival. I hope that the happy memories of my childhood can accompany my child as she grows up and become an important part of her childhood memories.

To make the Spring Festival more festive, I prepared these things for my baby. It is simple and easy to do, and even if the conditions are limited, you can still have a full Spring Festival with your children.

1. Watch picture books and documentaries

1. There are many picture books with Spring Festival themes. We mainly recommend the following ones:

"A Busy New Year's Eve": Based on the story of two sisters From my younger brother’s perspective as a child, I describe various situations on New Year’s Eve when the adults in the family are busy and the children come to help (make trouble) from time to time. From mom preparing New Year’s Eve dinner, grandma steaming rice cakes, to helping grandpa clean the yard, and going out shopping with dad. Flowers, and finally the reunion dinner, after which we gather with relatives to watch the Spring Festival Gala and watch the New Year's Eve...

"Little Nian Beast": It tells the story of the Nian beast who wants to devour the loneliness and fullness in the heart during the coldest time of the year. People who are resentful, so during the Spring Festival, everyone should be together with relatives and friends, let go of unhappiness, and there is an unexpected twist in the end, and the ending is very warm.

"Happy Chinese New Year" and "Happy Chinese New Year" and other device books: reproduce the classic Spring Festival customs and contain interactive stickers and small devices that children can operate, such as pasting door gods and Spring Festival couplets, making New Year's Eve dishes, changing into spring clothes, pulling ropes to set off firecrackers and fireworks, etc.

"The new year race": Babies who like English books can read the Spring Festival chapter of the Oxford Tree Chinese Story.

2. There are not many Spring Festival documentaries suitable for watching with children. We recommend these:

"The Taste of the Year", 1 episode of 15 minutes, suitable for children, introduces the Spring Festival Food and customs, classic New Year flavors!

"Chinese New Year", one episode of 25 minutes, full of New Year flavor and beautiful pictures. During the Spring Festival in the snow country, the children in the south cried when they saw the snow!

"Chinese Spring Festival", a BBC documentary, a foreign host introduces China's Spring Festival to netizens around the world. About one-sixth of the world's population celebrates the largest festival. One episode lasts 50 minutes, which is a bit long, so you can watch it in two times.

2. Listen to Spring Festival nursery rhymes or songs

I recommend a short and concise one, catchy and easy to remember: Children, children, don’t worry, after Laba Festival it will be the New Year. Post couplets, make dumplings, set off firecrackers, wear new clothes and hats, and celebrate the New Year happily.

Another classic one is the "Spring Festival Nursery Rhyme":

Don't be greedy, kids, it's the New Year after Laba Festival;

How much Laba porridge should you drink? God, blah blah blah twenty-three;

Twenty-three, sticky melons; twenty-four, sweep the house;

Twenty-five, grind tofu; twenty-six, Go buy meat;

On the twenty-seventh, slaughter a chicken; on the twenty-eighth, make the noodles;

On the twenty-nine, steam the steamed buns; on the 30th, stay up all night;

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People twist and turn on the first day of the new year; they walk around the streets on the first and second day of the lunar new year.

Spring Festival songs are also the best helper for the New Year atmosphere. In addition to Mandarin, Cantonese songs or Spring Festival nursery rhymes from your hometown are also worth listening to your children.

In addition, you can also teach your children to say some New Year greetings.

For example: Happy New Year, good luck, good luck, etc. For older children, you can memorize the words "Smooth sailing, two dragons, soaring, three sheep, kaitai, peace, peace and prosperity in all four seasons, five blessings, six or six, good luck, seven stars shining in all directions, wealth coming from all directions, ninety-nine, concentric, perfect, everything is prosperous, a thousand things are auspicious, everything goes well", and there are some useful tools for asking for red envelopes. do not have!

3. Matching Clothing and Accessories

The characteristic of the Spring Festival is to wear new red clothes from head to toe: hats, clothes, pants, skirts, socks, shoes, and bags. The panties are all red. Because this year is the Year of the Tiger, I also bought a tiger head hat for my baby -

A special reminder, on the most solemn traditional festival in China, it is very suitable to wear Hanfu, it is very suitable for the occasion.

4. Spring Festival Toys

How can we miss out on playing during the Spring Festival! And if the epidemic makes it difficult to go out, arrange programs for your children to be prepared!

It is recommended to buy Spring Festival-themed toys, such as Lego, which can be seen and played with.

In addition, prepare colorful cardboard. You can cut window grilles, origami, or make collages. There are many tutorials on the Internet, so even those with disabilities are not afraid.

For me, I particularly recommend ultra-light clay and plasticine, which can be used to make a Spring Festival-themed work. I recently made persimmons, little tigers, oranges, etc. with my baby. They are so cute.

If you want to be lazy, just buy a material package, such as a lion awakening lantern, and follow the tutorial video. The product will be pretty good!

5. Arrange Spring Festival decorations

1. Shopping in the flower street

Customs vary from place to place. Generally, you buy New Year oranges, orchids, peach blossoms, plum blossoms, narcissus, or bottles. Arrange flowers and let your children choose their favorite Spring Festival plants to buy home.

According to my experience, money trees and alocasia are particularly easy to care for.

If you are lazy like me, you can also get a few egg shells, wrap them with wire, hang them in the corner or balcony, sprinkle them with soil, plant a few small green plants, or get one in the kitchen Grow onions in water, and wait for the onions to sprout and sprout, which is also a beautiful New Year scenery~

2. Spring couplets and blessing characters

Although I am not up to the level of writing Spring couplets by myself, I can bring them with me. We can still buy Spring Festival couplets for our children.

You can also buy some red square paper, write a few characters for blessing and spring with your child, stick them up or hang them up, and enjoy them at home, which is full of childlike fun. Every year at the end of the year, I often read Spring Festival couplets to my children, such as when I pass by someone else’s house or see someone selling Spring Festival couplets in a shopping mall, to teach them proper literacy.

3. Arrange decorations

In the West, there are Christmas trees during Christmas. We have orange trees, peach blossom trees, plum blossom trees, orchids or an entire corner to decorate a "spring scene". I also found that it is the custom in some places to put sugar cane, celery, lettuce, etc., please see the demonstration——

Decorate the usual balcony (left) into a new one full of Spring Festival atmosphere Weather (right).

6. Take New Year photos

Take a set of Spring Festival photos to record this year. You don’t have to go to a professional photo studio, just highlight the Spring Festival theme. I took my kids to take Spring Festival photos a few days ago. Lanterns, firecrackers, gold ingots, orange trees, big carps, big red envelopes, and lion heads were all arranged!

After the film is released, I will make a New Year poster during family time, and the family group will pay New Year greetings and seek profits. It’s stable!

This is last year’s poster, this year’s poster has not been released yet, I look forward to it...

7. Prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner

If conditions permit, let the children join in the preparation New Year’s Eve dinner, let’s help (trick or treat) together!

For example: making glutinous rice balls, kneading flour, rolling out dough, making dumplings, picking beans...

Although... (omitting a thousand words of mischief here), it is heavy! exist! Participate! and! Haha~

8. Send blessings to relatives and friends

The Spring Festival is a festival of reunion. Taking the children to visit relatives and friends, giving New Year gifts to relatives and friends, and greetings are full of rituals.

If you are far away due to the epidemic or are geographically far away, remember to send New Year greetings via video.

After all, in the final analysis, the flavor of the Spring Festival, in addition to the external atmosphere and sense of ritual created by material things, the most important thing is the human touch of relatives and friends, those unchanging love and care over the years.