Activity for Chinese New Year

1. Done by Mdm An Wei 2016

2. • What are these？
• They are Chinese Paper Cutting,
also named Jianzhi (剪纸)

3. • The art of paper-cutting originated in China.
• Chinese Paper Cutting is one of the important art styles in Chinese
folk culture.
• Because the cut outs are always used to decorate doors and
windows, they are sometimes referred to "chuāng huā" (窗花),
meaning Window Flower. People glued the art on the exterior of
the windows and the light can go through the negative space of
the cutout. The artist most often use red paper to make artwork,
but they also use colored-paper to collage.
• Normally paper-cutting artwork use on the festivals like spring
festivals, weddings, childbirth; the paper-cutting always symbolizes
lucky and happiness.

8. Let’s do Window
Flowers and paste them
on our windows!

13. • After folding the paper, you can now
draw any design on it.
• You can try the example I show you first!

17. • There is one more example for you!

25. Now, It’s your turn!
Try different designs.
You can even make
your own design!