Free Printable Cultural Crafts for Chinese New Year

 Chinese New Year is also called the Spring Festival. It ends with a Lantern Festival. I like how the Chinese celebrate, with all those festivals, don't you? The theme is gentle and positive--good luck and prosperity. Here are cultural crafts from many lands, including China. The printables focus on Kung Fu Panda. Use these for CNY 2014 Year of the Horse, beginning Jan. 31.Free Printable Ethnic and Cultural Crafts for Social Studies  There are also printables from Latino, Native American and other groups.

Free Printable All American Patriotic Holiday Crafts for Memorial Day

Family Fun is a well-named magazine. Cover to cover each issue of family fun is loaded with recipes, games, crafts, activities and free printable fun. Here is a list of free printable patriotic and all-American themed craft activities from Family Fun. Begin here at the Family Fun home page. Why the homepage? Because Family Fun is well laid out and organized, but if I began by linking you to individual activities, you may miss out on the wealth of other crafts with similar themes. For example, on the home page you'll find a link to '36 Cool Summer Crafts' and 'Best Ever Birthday Parties'. Some of the all-American patriotic crafts will show up on these types of pages, also. So be sure to do some clicking about the Family Fun website. Okay, now for some specific patriotic and American games, puzzles, activities and crafts.   Free Printable All American Patriotic Summer Crafts

Printable Chinese New Year Activities, Crafts for Year of the Snake

Chinese New Year begins Feb. 10, 2013. It's year of the snake! Make crafts. Family Fun offers printable crafts like dragon kites and puppets, ribbon dragons, good luck gold fish and paper lanterns for parents. Craft Jr. has a CNY crafts and Animal Jr. has masks animals of the Chinese zodiac: snake, rat, dragon, horse, dog, tiger, sheep, rooster, ox, monkey, rabbit, pig, First-School has several animal coloring pages and paper lantern crafts.  Read on for more crafts and links. Chinese New Year for Parents and Kids

Free Printable Mardi Gras Masks to Color

Mardi Gras begins around mid January. Also called "fat Tuesday" (the translation from French) and "carnivale" meaning "farewell to the flesh," Mardi Gras is a big celebration leading up to Ash Wednesday and Lent, in the Catholic Christian church. In New Orleans, France and parts of South America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with costumes, parades, parties and feasting. In New Orleans, costumed groups called "krewes" spend months on lavish masks and outfits. Here are printable masks to celebrate. This article was written about Halloween masks which can be used for the holiday. For traditional Mardi Gras masks, scroll down a bit. Free Printable Halloween Masks: Coloring, Cut and Paste Fun 

Free Printable Jewish Sukkot Resources for Parents, Home Schoolers, Educators

Jewish families are celebrating the Sukkot holiday. This "festival of tabernacles" goes until sundown Wednesday. In Jewish tradition, children are involved in religious activities. Here are resources for parents, home-school families and educators to explore Sukkot with children. These materials help children understand the traditional significance behind the building of the sukkah.  Sukkot Resources for Parents, Home-Schoolers, Educators

Free Printable Cinco de Mayo Lesson Plans and Coloring Pages

Cinco de Mayo is the Mexican equivalent of our Fourth of July; Cinco de Mayo, or Fifth of May is the day Mexicans remember the Battle or Puebla. Cinco de Mayo is a great way to explore the culture, holidays, dress, customs, food, music and traditions of our American cousins to the south. Here are free printable Cinco de Mayo activities. Cinco de Mayo Lesson Plans and Coloring Pages 

Free Printable Halloween Masks for Children

Free Printable Halloween Masks: Coloring, Cut and Paste Fun Halloween and trick-or-treat is all about dressing up in costumes, right? So how about free printable Halloween masks for kids to color, cut and paste? Perfect for preschool, special education, art and school Halloween parties. Read on