making a lantern for our asia:nz lantern festival

 

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   In Auckland at Albert Park, 22-24 February 2008

   In Christchurch at Victoria Square, 1-2 March 2008


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Help us get the New Year off to a bright start by making a lantern for our Asia:NZ Lantern Festival and be in to win one of our wonderful prizes.

Join us in celebrating Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rat, with fun activities in your classroom and at Albert Park with displays of lanterns, exciting performances, yummy food stalls and lots more.  Be part of this not-to-be missed event!

 
Lantern Festival in Schools

The Asia:NZ Lantern Festival is a great opportunity to include ‘Asia’ in your classroom studies and participating in the lantern-making competition is a fun way for students to experience, first hand, a tradition associated with Chinese New Year schoollantern.jpgfestivities.  

To support you, we have several Chinese Lantern Festival units on our Educating for Asia website .  Written for teachers with activities and background info and linked to the New Zealand Social Studies, The Arts and Technology curricula.   Instructions for making lanterns are included.  

We need your help!

To make the Lantern Festival a great success, we need your help to encourage students to put on their thinking caps and design a lantern for the lantern-making competition to showcase their creativity!

What you can win!

Prizes will be available for participating schools and students in age categories 5-8, 9-12 and 13-17 years.  Register your participation now and start making your lanterns.

  • Deadline for lantern entries 20 February (Auckland) and 27 February 2008 (Christchurch) but your early registration would be appreciated (for display and administrative purposes).
  • School winners will be announced at the Lantern Festival.
  • Prizes and certificates will be sent to schools after the event.

What you can do now!

  • Share this fun event with your students and start making lanterns now! Slot in a session of lantern making as one of your classroom activities.
  • Schedule the Lantern Festival into your programme for 2008.  
  • Fill in the registration of interest form
If you have any questions, please contact Janine Chin on telephone 04 470 8707, fax on 04 471 2330 or email. We look forward to hearing from you soon.  Together, let’s make Asia come alive in your classroom, Albert Park and Victoria Square! 

Happy lantern-making!

Janine Chin, Schools Coordinator, Asia:NZ