Free Lunar New Year Bookmark Printables
The Free Lunar New Year Bookmark Printable is a fun way to celebrate the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year with kids. You have fun general Lunar New Year themes and then the 12 animals of the zodiac bookmarks.
These are great to use during the 15 days of the Lunar New Year Celebration.
You can use these bookmarks with kids in kindergarten, first grade and second grade. And older kids if you want as well.
The Lunar New Year Bookmarks Printable is an excellent addition to the Lunar New Year printables and bookmark printables on the site.
What is a Bookmark?
A bookmark is something used to mark one’s place in a book.
Bookmarks can be used to keep track of where you read. But they can also mark your favorite place in a book.
What is the Lunar New Year?
Lunar New Year is a celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar.
It is also known as the Chinese New Year in some areas of Asia.
Lunar New Year Bookmark Printables
The Lunar New Year bookmarks are a great seasonal bookmark you can give kids. You have 16 different Lunar New Year bookmarks. You have 4 bookmarks with general Lunar New Year themes. You also have 12 animals for each year.
You can use these with kids in kindergarten (ages 5 to 6), first grade (ages 6 to 7), second grade (ages 7 to 8), and third grade (ages 8 to 9). You can also use them with older kids.
Lunar New Year Bookmarks
You have 4 general Lunar New Year bookmarks. You have a dragon, a lantern, and two kids. Each has Happy Lunar New Year at the top. There is no year so you can use these every year.
Lunar New Year Animal Bookmarks
You have the following Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year animals: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.
You have a set that is just the twelve animals, and you have a set that is four of the current Lunar animal of each year. The four of the same on the same page lets you print off just the current animal for the current Lunar New Year.
Things to use with the Lunar New Year Bookmark Printables
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Preparing the Lunar New Year Bookmarks
You can printing these Lunar New Year bookmarks on white cardstock and laminating them. It helps the bookmarks last longer as well.
You could also use the stardust cardstock for the bookmarks. It add a little extra color on the bookmarks but still mostly white. You can also add a little bit of yarn or ribbon at the top of the bookmarks. You could use red, yellow and gold for the ribbon or yarn.
Ways to use the Lunar New Year Bookmarks
You are going to see a few ways that we have used bookmarks.
Keep Your Place in the Books
These bookmarks are great to keep your place in books. You can print them in cardstock and not laminate them and have kids write their page number on the back of the bookmark. A great way to keep trace of where they are in a book if the bookmark falls out. And you can see how many pages they are reading in a sitting.
And the different bookmarks are fun or just use the current zodiac animal for the bookmark.
Use Them in Chapter Books
These Lunar New Year bookmarks are also great for kids reading chapter books. They add a little fun for the Lunar New Year for kids. You could challenge them to find books that are from the area that the Lunar New Year is celebrated.
There are a few different Magic Tree House Books you can read about China.
What you will find the Free Lunar New Year Bookmarks Printables:
- Lots of different Lunar New Year for the bookmarks
- 4 Lunar New Year bookmarks per page
- 12 Animals of the 12 Chinese Zodiac Sign Bookmarks – single print for all or just the current Lunar New Year Animal
- 16 pages of printables
More Lunar New Year Printables
No-Prep Chinese New Year Weekly Packs has weekly packs with a Chinese new year theme. They have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You will find 4 pages of printables for each day. They have a mix of math and language activities.
Chinese New Year Letter Easy Reader Book has 8 pages with the beginning sound of themes from the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year.
Chinese New Year Zodiac Animals Easy Reader Book is a great book for kids to learn all the animals of the zodiac and tracing the words. You can color the animals and trace the words. Those animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
Chinese New Year Dot the Number & Count: Lantern is a great number printable that works on numbers 0 to 20 and lets you working dot marker for the number and counting on the lantern.
Chinese New Year Ten Frames with two sets of ten frames to work on counting from 1 to 10 with filled in ten frames to match the numbers and blank ten frames. A Great Lunar New Year Printable for prek and kindergarten.
Lunar New Year Sensory Bin is a simple sensory bin with rice, red rocks, gold rocks and coins for the Lunar New Year. An easy way for kids have a fun sensory activity for the Lunar New Year.
Check out all the fun Lunar New Year Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com