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Chinese New Year resources

Chinese New Year 2025 falls on Wednesday 29 January 2025 and celebrations come to a close with the Lantern Festival 15 days later.

Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year in the Chinese calendar and has a rotation years with a different animal for each. 2025 is the year of the Snake; 2024 was the Year of the Dragon; 2023 was the Year of the Rabbit.

Our resources will get students making a Chinese dragon, a Chinese zodiac animal wheel or making a fortune cookie out of card with their own lucky messages inside!

Download the free resources below! And please do share your learning highlights and final creations with us on social media @IETeducation or send them via email to IETEducation@theiet.org to be featured in our online gallery.

Chinese dragon mask

Design and create Chinese dragon masks

Go to Chinese dragon

Chinese zodiac animal wheel

Make a Chinese zodiac animal wheel to learn about cutting and assembling a simple graphic product. 

Go to Chinese zodiac animal wheel

Fortune cookie

Learn about cutting and folding simple 3D structures by making a fortune cookie from card.

Go to Fortune cookie

A red letter day

Learn about nets within a graphics project while making a Chinese red envelope.

Go to A red letter day

Make a DIY tea cup

Easy DIY clay tea cup project for a celebration

Go to Make a DIY clay teacup

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