2008 Year of the Rat

Here is a link to some new craft activities.

Weather tree

This is our weather tree. The chinese use these or used to to plan when to plant their crops.

More Crafts

These are the outlines for our fishy windsocks we made. I still have to pick the actual windsock up.









These were a nightmare. Look great when their done. In the pack that we bought they also have plain pieces of paper to try it on. They still have all the folding lines but no pattern.
I managed to do the giraffe but the squirrel went in the bin after lots of screaming and shouting.
The rest of the pack can wait till next year.

Our Chinese New Year Party

We went to a Chinese new year celebration, which unfortunately was a waste of time as the stage was at the bottom of a slope and all the adults crowded round the front which meant that unfortunately my Little's couldn't see anything.



Somewhere up there is my Little's wind socks that they made at one of the workshops. We haven't found them yet but we was assured that they were there somewhere. We will be collecting them soon so I will be able to post a picture then.

Bookmarks

Kitchen God

Below is our Kitchen God and we are making a Sticky cake for him later.

Fruit Carving

This was our first attempt at fruit carving 2 years ago, not quite as good as the pictures that you'll find here but then there not bad for our first go. I cann't wait to see how they'll turn out this year.

Fruit carving

These are this years

Origami

Our Chinese Paper Cutting

These are the ones we have made.


Jodie
Ashley
Mine

Happy New Year Song

This is a lovely song that my daughter has decided to sing and dance to when we celebrate.

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Fruit and Vegetable Carving

Fruit and vegetable carving is part of the Thai heritage. Long ago this art was taught and inherited by women only, however, now it has become a skill widely taught in culinary institutes around the world.

There's a link to the side to take you to some great pictures. This is a must to try as it's great fun.