Chinese New Year 2011: The Year of the Rabbit
This afternoon we had a great time decorating for our Chinese New Year's Dinner. |
I had bought red packets of coins with Chinese symbols on one side and the English equivalent on the other side. |
We made rubbings of the Chinese characters side of the six coins... |
and stuffed them into our felt fortune cookies. |
By evening we had decorated the table. |
My oldest made origami rabbits and we sprinkled around the table Chinese coins. |
She also made firecracker strings from some firecracker shaped containers that held candy to hang for decorations. |
These are the candies from the firecracker shaped containers. |
This character means "longevity." |
We cleared the table and began our craft...painting fans. |
In addition to fortune cookies (edible this time), we had rabbit shaped cookies for the year of the rabbit. |
Gung hay fat choy!