Chinese Cultural Activities 22/23

Chinese Kung Fu Performance

Objectives

  • Get to know one of Chinese Kung Fu – swordcraft
  • Enhance children’s interest in Chinese culture through Kung Fu

Brief Descriptions

  • The school invited the instructor to introduce Chinese Kung Fu – swordcraft and do Kung Fu with children. Through the interactive Chinese Kung Fu performances and experiences of doing Kung Fu, children appreciated traditional Chinese culture and art.

    

 

Chinese Cultural Game Booths

Objectives

  • Children learnt about the traditional customs and festivals of Chinese culture through different games, as well as built a good moral character, and develop a sense of belonging to the country and the national identity.

Brief Descriptions

  • Children wore traditional Chinese costumes on that day, they enjoyed playing under the atmosphere of Chinese culture.  The school invited parents as volunteers to design booth games about Chinese culture, allowing children to easily learn about traditional Chinese festivals and customs in a fun way.

        

 

Chinese Specialty Snack Making

Objectives

  • Chinese Specialty Snack Making
  • Be curious and interested in Chinese food culture

Brief Descriptions

  • The school invited parents as volunteers to make Chinese specialty snacks with the children, including: maltose biscuits, sugar-coated haws and bunny glutinous rice dumplings. After that, the children took their food home and tasted with the parents.

    

 

Shadow Puppet Show

Objectives

  • Let children get to know Chinese tradition art – Shadow Puppet Show
  • Cultivate children’s interest in and appreciation of traditional Chinese art and culture

Brief Descriptions

  • The school invited the external organization to perform a shadow puppet show “Traditional and Modern Shadow Puppetry” in a lively and interesting way.  The children enjoyed watching the puppet show and they learnt to appreciate Chinese art and culture. Afterwards, the shadow puppet master also invited the children to manipulate the shadow puppets and use their hands to create different hand shadows, allowing the children to experience the fun of shadow puppetry.     

 

Chinese Traditional Games

Objectives

  • Get to know and appreciate traditional Chinese games through activities

Brief Descriptions

  • The traditional Chinese games are placed in the outdoor playground, such as pot throwing, stones catching, shuttlecock kicking and lion dance, etc. The children can experience the ancient traditional Chinese games, also inherit the traditional Chinese culture.