Chinese Culture for Kids Series features teaching resources with videos, hands-on activities, printables, eBooks, and craft units!
Exploring Chinese Culture with Kids! China, the oldest civilization on earth has so much for us to explore. The resources that I have included here will take children on an adventure with the Chinese language, festivities, food, music, art, architecture, philosophy, traditions, medicine, martial arts, and more. Here are the Chinese culture teaching tools for you at home or at school. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing will be enhanced with hands-on cultural projects and multimedia experience.
Exploring Chinese Culture with Kids with Hello, China.
Hello, China – Chinese Culture series
One hundred Chinese phrases lead to 100 cultural topics in this series. You can have a general understanding of Chinese culture from Dragon to Kung Fu, and from Chinese medicine to Confucius. Each video is under three minutes long and it is a culture teaching resource that you can pick and choose for different age group.
National Palace Museum
Exploring Chinese culture through Chinese art. This is a great teaching resource for Chinese virtual art tour!
Make sure you visit the National palace Museum website for more amazing Chinese art collection.
ABC of Chinese
There are four videos in this series to give you an quick introduction to the formation of Chinese characters.
A Bite of China
A documentary series on Chinese food and cooking in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
(English edition)
Watch the Chinese edition with Chinese subtitle below
Asian Art Museum
Asian Art Museum is home to more than 18,000 works of art from over 40 Asian countries.
Emperor’s Treasures: Exploring Taiwan
More in the Chinese Culture for Kids Series
Chinese Lunar New Year 春節｜春节 . Chinese New Year Teaching Units
Lantern Festival 元宵節| 元宵节
Dragon Boat Festival 端午節 | 端午节. Dragon Boat Festival Easy eBooks
Chinese Valentine’s Day 七夕
Hungry Ghost Festival 中元節 |中元节
Mid Autumn Moon Festival 中秋節 |中秋节. Mid Autumn Moon Festival Teaching Unit
Qing Ming Festival 清明節 |清明节
Winter Solstice 冬至 |冬至
Even More Resources to Explore China and Chinese Culture
Marie’s Pastiche: Our Year of Exploring China in a Nutshell:
This is a fantastic series for homeschooling and every family!
Kid World Citizen: Chinese New Year collection –
Check out a great collection of craft projects, books, and presentations from Becky!
Time for Kids: China.
National Geographic Kids: China.
Discovery Education:
China unit school resources
China – People and Places
Google Arts and Culture
We loved the Hello China series, they’re a great way for kids and their short attention span to get to know a bit about the Chinese culture. Thanks for including us in your resources!
It is my pleasure!