Hi {firstname},

Happy New Year to you and to all your loved ones! I wish you good health, success in what you do, and peace wherever you are.

For many, the circumstances make this a difficult winter. For my part, I want to continue creating inexpensive activities that are fun for children while teaching them something useful.

Here is a colour matching game that is easy to make from an egg carton. I used a carton, but it should also work with a plastic egg box.

In the document that accompanies this video, you will find several coloured templates that are ready to print, and you can of course make your own models to match the pompoms or other small objects that you will be using for this game.

This year, Chinese New Year is very early. The festivities for the start of the Year of the Rabbit start on January 22 and last for 2 weeks. They finish with the Lantern Festival, on February 9.

Here is how you can make a Chinese lantern by recycling a plastic container like the ones in which cherry tomatoes are sold.

We have improved the Chinese New Year page on the Animaplates website. Now you can easily find projects for every animal in the Chinese zodiac. As well, you can see which sign corresponds to the year of your birth.

Among the projects that go with the year of the rabbit, there is a rabbit puppet made from a paper sandwich bag. The document contains all the required patterns, and it is free for all our members!

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Here are a few printables related to Chinese New Year. There is a colouring page, two kinds of picture sudokus, and a zentangle colouring page.

To get unlimited access to all our printables, get a Pro membership. In addition, a Pro membership gives you 40 credits that you can spend any way you want on the website.

And did you know that several "paid" projects are in fact free with the Pro Membership? For those projects, you don't even need to spend the credits that come with your membership.

For the Year of the Rabbit, here are some project ideas with rabbits: