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Home » Books » Learning All About China Through Stories, Crafts, and Recipes

Learning All About China Through Stories, Crafts, and Recipes

September 2, 2018 by Crystal McClean

Castle View Academy learns All About China

The Chinese culture has had a big influence around the world for centuries and it’s an interesting country for children to learn about.  Today we’re sharing with you a great book: All About China, which is filled to the brim with interesting information.

Castle View Academy homeschool learns All About China

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Tuttle Publishing kindly sent us copies of All About China: Stories, Songs, crafts and Games for Kids, and the children have been spending the last little while reading through and enjoying the activities.

All About China

All About China: Stories, Songs, crafts and Games for Kids is in keeping with Tuttle’s ‘All About’ series, which is incredibly informative.  Take a little trip into the past and learn a little about several of the dynasties and some fun facts about them.

Castle View Academy reading All About China

The children found learning about traditional Chinese homes was interesting, and decided that they are indeed happy that we have indoor plumbing as in the Hutong areas of cities like Beijing, the homes may be small like ours, but the residents may have to walk a couple of blocks and wait in line to use the toilets when nature calls!  I have told them this many times when I’ve spoken about a short trip I took to China in 2003, but I’m not sure they totally believed me.

As with all of the All About books, there are plenty of activities for children to do to get hands-on with Chinese culture.  A couple of the activities in this book are:

Castle View Academy makes a double happiness paper cutout

Paper cutting is an ancient art form and is still practiced today.  You can try your hand at cutting out a double happiness symbol to hang up.

Castle View Academy makes long life noodles from All About China book

Food is always the way to my children’s hearts and memories, so they were happy to make the Kid-Friendly Long Life Noodles.  We had all the ingredients in the cupboard already, and the kids grow their own green onions, so they were happy to use that, too!

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The kids learned about the Qing Ming Festival and how often people will make kites and fly them as a way to reach the heavens and their ancestors and pass along good thoughts to them .  This had Tristan thinking about the kite he and Phil made earlier in the summer from the Asian Kites book.

Castle View Academy watching Dragon Boats in Belafst

Northern Ireland isn’t a big hub of festivals, but they have been to Chinese New Year festivities and have watched Dragon Boating a few years back…and of course have heard many tales of my time back home in Regina and participating in the huge Dragon Boat Festival there!

All About China book

Of course, there’s more than just history to China; it’s a vibrant and bustling place today!  But with that, comes air pollution, which is causing some damage to the health of both people and historical artifacts. In addition, there are some endangered species in China such as pandas, tigers, and Chang Jiang River dolphins.  This brings up a good topic of conversation about how we can help the environment both here at home as well as have an impact half way across the world.

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Filed Under: Asian Cultures, Books, Homeschool Reviews Tagged With: AF-AM, China, Elementary, Kindergarten, Primary, Tuttle Publishing

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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