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Chinese New Year Snacks
Contact_FullName: Crystal
Contact_Email: amsui2000@yahoo.com Area: Chinese New Year-Snack Idea: If you are able to deep fry at your preschool, then this is a delicious activity. Make wonton chips...buy wonton pi (wrappers) at your local grocery store in the refrigerated section (usually next to the tofu) and fry them up in oil. Just like tortilla chips, and just as delicious. We enjoyed this snack as children in Hawaii. Contact_FullName: ANNE Contact_Email: AMSUI2000@YAHOO.COM Area: Chinese New Year Snack Idea: At Chinese New Year, I cook fried noodles by using "Top Ramen" or "Maruchan" dried noodles. You boil the noodles as you would soup, then strain the noodles (like spaghetti) and fry in oil with soup noodle packet and 1/4 cup water. You can have the children cut up vegetables (snow peas, carrots, onions, bean sprouts, etc.) or just have it plain! The children love it! Chinese also eat dried fruit at New Years... Contact_FullName: Trish Contact_Email: Smileyface@teacher.com Area: Chinese New Year - Snacks/Activities Idea: My kids loved reading the book The Runaway Rice Cake. There is a recipe in the back to make the rice cake. We mixed it all together and then put it in the oven. I did not turn the oven on right away. Instead I cooked it over night, telling them it took a long time to cook and we would have to take it out of the oven the next day. When we went to get it out, it had "run away". The kids followed clues I had written, in the same format as the book (Ai yo...) to figure out where the rice cake was. A year later they still talk about it. For kids who had already done this before, we added the precaution of tying the rice cake down, but of course it didn't work! And the rice cake tastes pretty good too. Contact_FullName: christine Contact_Email: cmdjava@aol.com Area: Chinese new year Idea: growing bean sprouts place seeds in a damp paper towel overnight to facilitate sprouting. when you have sprouts rinse them once a day with tap water, it's best to do this in a jar with cheese cloth over the lid. we make one inch markings on the jar to chart the growth of our beans. we also eat them for snack. Contact_FullName: Erika
For our Chinese New Year Snack, we enjoyed ham fried rice. I made it ahead of time and kept it warm in an electric fry pan. We tried chop sticks at first and most went to spoons. Fried rice packages are at grocery stores with the instructions! We also read The Five Chinese Brothers and they love that story!!
6-6-00Make egg drop soup. Boil chicken broth and slowly add 2 eggs (beaten). Stir quickly while adding the egg. My students love it every year. 10-17-00Use wooden Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors (available from a medical supply store) for chopsticks to eat your snack or lunch if celebrating Chinese New Year. They are a little bit wider and easier to use than real chopsticks.
ideaWe did this last year and plan to do it again this year. A Chinese girl in my class brought in enough chopsticks for each child to have a pair. (You might need to do in small groups. I have small classes.) First, we practiced using them by picking up pom-poms, cotton balls, and small toys. At snack time, we used them to eat buttered macaroni. Each child was able to use the chopsticks to eat and this was, by far, one of the most popular snacks of the year!! 11-30-99 |
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