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Chinese New Year Pineapple Craft

Happy New Year to everyone! I have made this Chinese New Year Pineapple Craft.  It is almost the time of the year for Chinese to celebrate our Chinese New Year! This coming lunar year is the Fire Monkey. If you are in Asia or UK Chinatown, you would have probably seen lot of colourful, vibrant decorations.

Over the past year, I have blogged the step-by-step for creating various Chinese crafts e.g. Ang Pow Lantern, Fan, Firecracker etc. I have also written posts on Chinese New Year culture like how we celebrate the festivities in Singapore and UK. Do check them out if you are interested to find out more about Chinese culture.

Chinese New Year Pineapple Craft

Paper Cut Jack-O-Lantern & Bat

Cutting paper is one of my favourite childhood crafts. I still remember fondly helping my mother to cut the Chinese characters to paste onto food items for offering to the Buddha and his followers.

Paper Cut Jack-O-Lantern & Bat

Hello Kitty Chinese New Year Ang Bao/Pow Lantern

My two sisters-in-law are big fans of Hello Kitty so when I came across some Hello Kitty Ang Bao/Pow when I was last in Singapore, I bought some for them. I bought some for myself too and with these, I decided to make a lantern.

Hello Kitty Chinese New Year Ang Pow Lantern

Fish Lantern using Ang Bao / Pow

During this month, I am going to write a series of Chinese New Year posts from making lanterns, zodiac, Feng Shui to Chinese culture. This is my first blog post of my Chinese New Year series.  Look out for the rest of the posts! Today, I am going to use Ang Pow (red packets) to make a Fish Lantern. So what is an Ang Pow? It is a red envelope/packet that contain a monetary gift which is given during Chinese New Year or special occasions like weddings or birthdays etc. They are called Hong Bao (红包) in Mandarin or Ang Pow/Bao in Singapore Hokkien or Lai See in Cantonese. Click here to read more about it.

How to make Chinese New Year Fish Ang Pow Lantern

Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or Mooncake Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is also know as Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival in Singapore.  For every festival, there are lanterns hanging across the street and children showing off their beautiful lanterns. I still remember I used to hold a paper folded red lantern and sometimes it would catch fire if I swing it around.  Now the lantern are battery operated so it will be safe for children.  Each year, the lanterns are getting more and more fanciful.

mooncake

Simple Chinese Ang Pow Lantern

This is a very simple and straightforward Chinese Lantern. You will required these materials:

  • 5 Long Red Packet (Ang Bao)
  • 1 Red String
  • 1 Stapler

Simple Chinese Ang Pow Lantern

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