Korean New Year Book

To celebrate the year of the rat here are nine books to share with your little ones.

Korean new year book. This celebrated the beauty of korean culture and allows the celebration to stand on its own. Whatever your traditions are for celebrating the new year we have a few kid friendly activities to add to the fun. Records of 7th century korean new year celebrations are included in the chinese historical works the book of sui and the old book of tang.

It s also the only book that doesn t mush all eastern new year celebrations together as if they are pale copycats of chinese new year. This lunar new year which includes chinese new year begins on january 25th. A young boy looks forward to the lunar new year often called the chinese or korean new year a time of hope and you don t have to be asian to celebrate it.

Some of the children would perform the lion dance others demonstrated a korean bowing ceremony and everyone got a chance to eat noodles dim sum and other chinese treats. The little girl in this story is excited to put on her new hanbok for new year s day. We ve added coloring sheets and paper fan crafts to the free downloadable worksheets section of our online store design your own hanbok make your own paper fans and color a simple seollal celebration and choose from several other learning activities while you re at it.

A young boy looks forward to the lunar new year often called the chinese new year a time of hope and you don t have to be chinese to celebrate it.