Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

Its now officially the year of the dragon.

Ally has been learning about this at school. She has Chinese class once a week - there is a Chinese Immersion School that shares her building this year and its a nice enrichment and way to learn about another culture. She asked on Sunday (yesterday) what we were doing to celebrate. I said not really anything. Then this morning she asked if we could please do something to celebrate. How could I say no?

So I did a little research on my lunch break and came up with a craft project, a cooking project and decided we would have veggie fried rice for dinner.

Here are Ally and mama working on the fortunes.
For the home made fortune cookies I made! Becky had to fold them - I am pretty origami challenged.

Then mama and Ally colored in their Dragon Masks.

Aren't they fierce?

Then they played a game Ally made up - it entailed cards with animals and a spinner. It seemed very complicated to me. I finished making dinner and then I colored my dragon.

Me sporting my dragon mask and showing off the yummy dinner.

Our fortunes!

Ally decided to color symbols for the ones she did - the yellow and red symbolize favorite color (mama's), the grey is for snow.

The written ones I did to surprise Ally and Becky - I am so very hopeful they will come true soon!

Ally with her "fortune teller" that is what she kept calling the cookies.

It was a pretty fun time.