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 St.Patricks Day Activities

St. Patricks Day, March 17 has a silly holiday aspect. Wearing green, the blarney stone, leprechauns, 'Kiss Me, I'm Irish' pins. There was a man and a story behind St. Patricks' Day. Here are free printable lesson plans to explore these stories. Some of these lesson plans do focus on the light-hearted aspects of St. Patrick's Day, but they are interesting, educational lesson plans. Click here