Kindergarten Dragon Boat Festival Program Planning Activities

When planning kindergarten Dragon Boat Festival activities, you can consider the following three activities making dumplings, dragon boat racing, and tying colorful thread art.

1. Make dumplings.

Invite parents and children to make dumplings together, so that children can participate in making traditional Dragon Boat Festival food. You can prepare the zongzi leaves, glutinous rice and various fillings, and then organize the children to follow the instructions and demonstrations for the activity of wrapping the zongzi. This not only allows children to experience traditional culture, but also promotes hand-eye coordination and social interaction.

2. Dragon boat racing.

Set up a small venue for dragon boat races outdoors or indoors, and prepare dragon boat decorations and some small dragon boat races. Let the children form teams to participate in dragon boat races to experience paddling, cooperation and team spirit. Through this activity, children can not only feel the importance of teamwork, but also exercise and enhance coordination.

3. Tie colorful thread art.

Using colorful paper, rope and colorful threads and other materials, children are organized to create the art of tying colorful threads. Provide some Dragon Boat Festival-related templates, such as moxa leaves, five-pointed stars and dragon boats, etc., and let the children choose their favorite patterns and tie the outlines and details of the patterns with colored threads. This activity can exercise children's manual skills, creativity and image thinking.

The role and significance of the Dragon Boat Festival:

1. To honor Qu Yuan.

The Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan is a famous patriotic poet and politician in Chinese history, who devoted himself to saving the country from peril, and was eventually ostracized by the nobles and forced to throw himself into the river. In order to avoid contamination of his body by fish and shrimp, people rowed boats and fished on the day he threw himself into the river, as well as putting in dumplings.

2. To drive away the plague.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a summer festival and an important point in traditional Chinese farming culture. Ancient people believed that summer is prone to plague and disease, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also to pray for the expulsion of plague, health and peace.

3. Recreational activities and traditional sports competitions.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also an important time for entertainment and sports competitions. People will hold dragon boat races, rowing dragon boats in rivers, lakes and seas to simulate search and rescue and rowing fishing; they will also fly kites, trekking, stilt walking, swinging and other activities to add to the festive atmosphere of joy.