With essence of pleasure and merry making, chinese new year for kids is one of the part of grand celebration. Generally, festival holds an important place in children's life. It counts more in their blissful mood. Children get engaged in work of crafting and decorating houses. The most common crafts designed by children are dragons, chopstick frames, fortune cookies, Chinese hat.
As chinese lantern is most common crafts of lantern festival. Children design them with scissors, colored paper, glue, tape and stapler. Another common design used on the day is orange trays. Children make tiger paper bag puppet and other animal shaped cartoon. It is a way to welcome new year through replica of animal. For kids in china, there are specific chinese new year games and activities. Games are associated with china from a long term centuries and played in its traditional rules.
Among them Forcing the city gates and select fruit are most common game played by children. Children grouped together to play game in joyous mood. The forcing the city gate is song based game where kids, decides sides and forms into two lines. After they appoint captain and hold hand tightly and sings these lines;
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And hurried to the town;
And children met him with a horse,
For the gates were broken down.
On the other hand select fruit is game based on the name of fruit like apples, pears, peaches, quinces, or plums. The game is based on blindfolded terminology and played under a selected captain. New year gives opportunity to children to gather in one place as it is a holiday time in china.