Fun Chinese New Year Coloring Pages and Printables for Kids

It's the year of the Tiger! Here's a great way for your children to celebrate and learn more about the upcoming Chinese New Year that will be welcomed on February 14th. Take a look at these websites that feature free Chinese New Year coloring pages and printables that your children are sure to enjoy.

The FamilyEducation website features several printables. You can find pictures of people celebrating the Chinese New Year, a worksheet where children can make a resolution, a vocabulary worksheet, a printable where children can learn which animal corresponds to their birth year, a word search and worksheets containing Chinese New Year facts. There are also great worksheets where children can learn more about the Chinese New Year in pictures and words, how to write their numbers in Chinese, instructions on how to create three-dimensional paper sculptures of dragons and how to eat with chopsticks. This website will truly help your children learn about the holiday and the wonderful culture.

Another website worth taking a look at is apples4theteacher. The website has quite a few coloring pages as well as other activities. Children can learn about the Chinese Zodiac and proverbs, try recipes, work on crafts, word jumbles and searches and play interactive games. Their coloring pages include a map of China, the tiger and the Chinese flag.

If you are looking for simple Chinese New Year printable coloring pages, you must take a look at coloring.ws. The coloring pages include all the zodiac animals, including this year's tiger. The pictures also look simple enough for children to draw or trace.

After looking at coloring.ws you can take a look at one of its sister sites, DLTK's Coloring.DLTK features crafts, coloring pages and projects for many holidays and themes. The website offers tons of different dragon printables and many other activities for the Chinese New Year.

Another sister site is first-school. This website offers coloring pages and other activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Children can work on a lantern craft, a panda craft, worksheets, and of course, printable coloring pages.

Childbook.com offers some very cute coloring pages that children are sure to love. You can find all the zodiac animals, dragons and many festival pages.

For adorable printable coloring pages try activityvillage. The website also features printable coloring cards, printable booklets, origami instructions, printable jigsaws and crafts.

Printables4kids also offers several Chinese New Year printable coloring pages. Their Tiger Face Coloring Page can also be made into a mask, and they have a pattern for a lantern craft.

You can also find Chinese New Year coloring pages on the Crayola website. Crayola also features craft pages such as racing dragon boat puppets, fantasy fireworks display and celebrating symbols.

Kaboose, a parenting website, is another great resource for Chinese New Year activities.
This website has tons of crafts and activities for the New Year. Make sure to check out how to make a Tiger Paper Bag Puppet, a Chinese New Year Red Envelope and a Chinese Dragon Parade. You can also find holiday facts, books and recipes.