What do you do for China New Year?

Handmade during the Spring Festival include firecrackers, cardboard lion dances and so on. Details are as follows:

1, making firecrackers: Setting off firecrackers is the most traditional custom in Chinese New Year. When I was a child, as soon as the Spring Festival came, crackling firecrackers resounded through every corner of the streets. Nowadays, in order to protect the environment and safety, many cities have banned it, but we can let our children know this traditional custom by making it by hand.

2. Cardboard lion dance: Lion dance is also an excellent folk art form in China. Every Spring Festival, lion dancing is celebrated in many places, which means sending and praying for blessings. We can make a simple lion dance with simple props.

3. Handmade lanterns: During the Chinese New Year, all the streets and alleys are covered with jubilant red lanterns, which is very festive. We can also make simple lanterns with children at home.

4, grapefruit lamp: materials grapefruit, acrylic pigments, electronic candles, the practice is to eat leftover grapefruit skin, brush red with propylene, hollow out the words 2023 on it, put a small electronic candle inside, then string a rope on it and hang it on a wooden pole to make lanterns.