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Description

Try your hand at some Chinese calligraphy and make a traditional Chinese New Year decoration.

Resources

A4 card
A4 paper
Paint
Paint brushes
String
Sticky tape

Instructions

Before you begin
Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.
Create an example ‘Fu’ character, meaning good luck, by drawing a large copy that everyone will be able to see and use to draw theirs from.
You can find an example ‘Fu’ character below this text.

Painting your decoration
Gather everyone together and explain that you’re going to make Fu decorations. They’re decorations used to wish people good luck for the new year.
Everyone should take a piece of paper. Fu decorations are often painted onto a diamond shaped piece of paper or card, so people may wish to cut their card into one of these shapes.
Next, people can choose their paint and pick up a paintbrush, then use the example to paint their own symbol of good luck, copying the Chinese character ‘Fu’. People may wish to use a pencil to sketch it out first and that’s OK.
Everyone should decorate the borders of their paper with different colours and patterns to of their choice.
Now people can choose how and where they want to display their good luck symbol. You could fold the paper in half to turn it into a greetings card. They could use the sticky tape to attach a loop of string and hang it on the wall or in a window to turn it into a decoration.

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