This week we are visiting China!
Here is our ‘This week we are visiting China’ sign. We stick ours up in the kitchen/dining room (where we do most of our playing!) so that the boys can keep looking at it...
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China flags!
We made some flags as part of our ‘China week’. We made one flag out of card, craft sticks, glue and paint. I made one first, and then drew out the design for my...
Great Wall of China garden challenge!
Hoorah for some sunny weather! Our activities tend to move outside as soon as the sun appears (and sometimes even when it doesn’t!). We were doing ‘China week’ when some sun arrived, so I...
Fire-breathing dragon candle!
I wanted to do something to do with dragons for our ‘China week’, and although I thought my son would enjoy an egg box dragon, I thought something with ‘fire’ would go down a...
Egg-fried rice for China week
Egg-fried rice is an absolute classic and we had to make it for our ‘China week’. This was one of the first evening meals that my preschooler made almost entirely by himself (with some...
Summer Palace art activity
The boys have been really enjoying the Bella and Harry book Let’s visit Beijing for our ‘China week’ – see my post on books for China week. Bella and Harry visit the Summer Palace...
Panda craft stick!
The boys have loved learning about giant pandas as part of our ‘China week’. My preschooler suggested we should make a stick panda, and I was very happy to oblige! I quickly produced one...
Great Wall of China lego challenge!
We couldn’t ‘go to’ China without a good look at the Great Wall of China. And given my 4yo is very much into lego, why not build the Great Wall out of lego?! So...
Books for China week
We love the Bella and Harry book ‘Let’s vist Beijing’ for our ‘China week’. See my post on the Bella and Harry adventure series for more on why we love these books! My preschooler...
Fuse beads for China week!
For our ‘China week’, we made a panda out of fuse beads using this pattern. Older children could copy this design for themselves, but our preschooler needed some help. We have put it up...
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