🐉 Lele Activity Paper brings you the fun of making rice dumplings! Let’s wrap up the festive flavor!
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year is a traditional festival - the Dragon Boat Festival. It is such a blessing to be able to taste a hot rice dumpling on this day! This year’s Dragon Boat Festival will be this Saturday (May 5st in the Gregorian calendar). Every household is busy making rice dumplings, but making rice dumplings is not easy, especially the materials needed and the production process are particularly complicated. We hope that you who are overseas can also experience the fun of making rice dumplings with your children! Therefore, we have specially designed activity paper for making rice dumplings, so that you and your children can make rice dumplings by yourself and feel the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival!
"Dragon Boat Festival, eat zongzi"
✂️Prepare materials:
- Lele Activity PaperDragon Boat Festival, eating zongzi」: DownloadTraditional Chinese Version|Simplified Chinese Version
- Thick A4 printing paper (It is recommended to use thick paper. If you don’t have thick paper, you can stick two pieces of paper together to increase the thickness of the paper, or stick it on a biscuit or cereal box to prevent the paper from being damaged due to excessive folding during the process of wrapping the rice dumplings.)
- Coloring Pen
- scissors
- Cotton string or bamboo rope (optional)
❤️Step 1: Cut and draw with activity paper (1) Print activity sheets"Dragon Boat Festival, eat zongzi"There are 4 pages in total. Page 1 of the activity paper is word cards. If parents have prepared ingredients for rice dumplings, they can cut out the word cards and place them next to the ingredients to help children recognize the ingredients.
(2) Ask the children to colour the big rice dumpling (page 2) and the small rice dumpling (page 3) respectively. Cut each rice dumpling and fold it along the dotted line with the printed side facing outwards (the solid black/red line is the cutting line and the dotted line is the folding line).
(3) Page 4 of the activity sheet shows commonly seen ingredients for making rice dumplings. The blank word cards can be filled with special ingredients that each family likes (such as dried tofu, chestnuts, etc.). The way to wrap zongzi is to let the children put the ingredients in one by one. After finishing, put the two gray blocks of the big and small zongzi into the two red lines. Parents who have prepared cotton thread or zongzi rope can help the children tie up the zongzi. In this way, a beautiful zongzi is completed!
❤️Step 2: Parent-child reading time When children are enjoying the fun of making rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, they should also remember to read the Lele Intermediate Yellow Book #92 Festivals (1) and #93 Festivals (2) together. Through parent-child reading, not only can parent-child interaction be enhanced, but it can also help children connect life experiences with Chinese learning, making learning more meaningful and interesting.
❤️Step 3: Continue reading Remember to use the membership function ◤LeLe Online Word Search◢ , find the Lele books corresponding to the words, and choose related books that your child is interested in, so that your child can learn more words.