When is Lunar New Year 2027?

Lunar New Year falls on Saturday, February 6, 2027, and begins the Year of the Goat. The date follows the moon, so it moves each year between late January and mid February.

What is the difference between Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year is the Chinese celebration. Lunar New Year is the wider name, since many communities mark the same new moon, including Vietnamese families at Tết and Korean families at Seollal.

What Lunar New Year activities work for preschool and kindergarten?

Busy books, a paper lantern craft, zodiac headbands, a lion dance paper bag puppet, red envelope counting clip cards, lantern dot marker numbers and the Zodiac Animals emergent reader. Each page lists its grade range.

What can 3rd to 5th graders do for Lunar New Year?

Read the What Is Lunar New Year? poster and fact cards, build the flap book, fold a dragon fortune teller, color the mindfulness pages, and work together on the Year of the Goat class mural.

Are there printables for Tết?

Yes. There are Tết banners, an I Spy page, a family dinner picture search, bingo, counting clip cards, coloring pages and a Tết festival class mural.

Saturday, February 6, 2027

Lunar New Year Activities for Kids

Make lanterns and dragons, retell The Great Race, and print pages for Tết too.

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