Dragon Boat Festival Printable Pack

Spring went swiftly with its blooming flowers and little sprouts, and summer has taken its place as the days grow longer and the sunshine is more abundant. While we are enjoying the sunshine, the reeds and the lotus by the river, the atmosphere brings a sense of the Chinese tradition, yes, the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching.

It is time for families reunion! Sitting around, talking, laughing, and making sticky rice dumplings (zongzi) together!

Since our family is away from home, we gathered with our friends’ families here in Japan to make zongzi together. It was such a lot of fun and enjoyable to make this traditional food, as this is our first time ever making zongzi by ourselves.

Not only do we eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, but we also hang sachets and wear colorful ropes, all of which symbolize good luck.

It is also a perfect time to teach kids about the Dragon Boat Festival in Chinese! Grab our FREE printable Dragon Boat Festival printable pack in this post and enjoy the 40 pages hands-on activities with your kids, or your students on this special occasion.

In this learning pack, kids will enjoy learning twelve Dragon Boat Festival elements step-by-step from Pinyin to Chinese characters, and to vocabulary.

By embedding repetitive words in over ten different activities naturally, kids will delight in celebrating Dragon Boat Festival and at the same time learn Chinese with this fun and engaging Chinese learning activities pack.

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Lesson materials for this topic:

1. Vocabulary List

The vocabulary list helps manage the overall learning content and activities. It can be used as the answer key to the whole learning pack.

The Dragon Boat Festival theme pack contains twelve words and one expression.

The twelve words can be either introduced all at once or slit up into two parts by learning six words each session since the Pinyin and Chinese characters worksheets can be split up accordingly.

2. Printable Flashcards

Flashcards are great for learning Chinese vocabulary and sentence structures. Kids can use flashcards to learn and practice Chinese words and expressions repeatedly, and they can also use flashcards to do games.

There are two versions of the flashcards in the learning pack. The single-sided version and the double-sided version.

Set A (single-sided version)

The single-sided version has a picture, Chinese characters, Pinyin (for spelling out the sound in Chinese), and English definitions all on one side. Kids can look at the pictures and read the words by looking at the Pinyin and trying to memorize how to say the words in Chinese.

Set B (double-sided version)

For double-sided flashcards, the front side has a picture with English definition, and the back side has Chinese characters with Pinyin. When printing the flashcards double-sided, bear in mind that select double-sided printing and flip on the short edge.

You can print them out with double-sided printing for kids to practice. Show kids the picture side and let them try to say the word in Chinese. To make it more difficult, you can shuffle the cards to make them disordered. After the kids say the word in Chinese, check the answer by flipping the card to look at the back side which has the Chinese word and Pinyin on it.

Another way to print flashcard set B is by single-sided printing. This way, you can let kids to a matching game. Let them try to match the pictures with the correct Chinese words.

3. Printable Worksheets

There are over ten different kinds of activity worksheets for kids to work on, which allow kids to practice Pinyin, Chinese characters, and vocabulary in many ways.

Pinyin Worksheet

Learning Pinyin is a fundamental step in learning Chinese, as it lays the groundwork for accurate pronunciation, listening skills, and overall language proficiency.

These Pinyin worksheets can help kids get familiar with the composition of the structure of the sound for the Chinese characters, which will support kids’ spelling and pronunciation of Chinese characters and words.

The practice of Pinyin can give the kids an idea of how a Chinese sound is composed. Learning Pinyin is important for the Chinese language as it is the foundation of Chinese pronunciation, even Chinese elementary school students in China all have to learn Pinyin at the beginning. Check out the Chinese Pinyin Workbook for a comprehensive practice from Pinyin tracing through various engaging handwriting activities.

Vocabulary worksheets

The vocabulary worksheets have not only Chinese characters but also Pinyin, as Pinyin helps spell out the characters, it can support the kids to read and learn the Chinese vocabulary.

Chinese character worksheets

There are four Chinese character practising activities. They are perfect for kids to learn and memorize Chinese characters from visual perception to handwriting.

Word Search can help kids get familiar with the structure of Chinese characters and help them memorize the Chinese characters more easily .

Coloring and Tracing worksheets have Chinese characters, Pinyin (for spelling out the sound of the Chinese characters), and English definitions for each word.

Kids can first color the characters, then try to write each character following the given stroke orders. It can help kids enhance their handwriting skill.

Sentence Worksheets worksheets

Activity 1-Copy Sentence

Copying sentences is a good way of reinforcing learners’ memory. It helps enhance learners’ reading comprehension along with the accumulation of their vocabulary.

Activity 2-Sentence Search.

Sentence Search activity is just the same as word search, it is fun, engaging, and also provides the opportunity to enhance the young learners’ Chinese recognition and Chinese sentence pattern recognition skills.

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3. Fun Reinforcement Activity Pages

Dominoes

Chinese domino cards game is simple and fun to practice characters and words.

No preparation is required. Print the page and cut out the cards along with the solid line.

In this game, kids will try to match each illustration to its Chinese word.

I Spy

Kids like the I Spy game as they like searching for things. It is a fun game and can also help children to memorize the names of objects in learning a language.

Maze

The maze helps learners reinforce their vocabulary in a fun way.

Kids will help the characters find their objects. Each character and object has a cute image with Chinese characters and Pinyin, which makes learning fun and enjoyable.

Cut and Glue

In China, people in the northern regions generally prefer sweet sticky rice dumplings filled with jujube (or other fillings such as red bean); whereas people in the southern regions prefer savory sticky rice dumplings filled with meat.

What flavor will you and your kids or students like?

In this worksheet, have the kids choose their favorite filling, cut out the corresponding picture and glue it on the sticky rice picture; then cut out the Chinese characters that match the filling they choose and stick the characters on the black line on the top right of the worksheet to make the sentence: I like meat filling sticky rice dumplings (我喜欢肉粽子|wǒ xǐ huān ròu zòng zi), or I like jujube filling sticky rice dumplings (我喜欢红枣粽子|wǒ xǐ huān hóng zǎo zòng zi)。

Now they have made a “delicious sticky rice dumpling” and learned an expression： I like…(我喜欢|wǒ xǐ huān…)!

More Dragon Boat Festival-Themed Worksheets

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