Write Chinese Using Fun Materials：easy activities

Write Chinese Using Fun Materials

Write Chinese can be fun! This is a series where you can find time tested tips from our more seasoned parents as well as fun and easy activities to supplement your Sagebooks experience. As much as children love the illustrations in the books and stories, the more ways we can make learning Chinese characters fun, the better!

We know you’re a busy parent so these posts will be quick and to the point.

在這裏，前輩爸爸媽媽為你教路，以趣味性的簡單活動充實孩子的思展圖書體驗。這些活動使孩子在投入書中插圖角色之餘，更加添認讀的樂趣，完全地寓學於娛！

We hope your children have been enjoying these activities and that they’re not too intimidating to try. Our goal is to provide activities that seem doable. Don’t worry about making things perfect or pretty!

ACTIVITY OF THE WEEK - Write Chinese

Just like last week, this week’s activity is about writing characters again. Instead of a kinesthetic activity, we’ll be using different textures and materials.

Quick Tip: Your child may be tempted to just decorate and color the character. That is ok and a fun way for them to integrate the character into art.

WHAT YOU NEED 道具

Several sheets of 8×11 paper
Marker/Crayon
Stickers (dots, hole reinforcement stickers, any kind of stickers)
Round stamps/any stamp
Tiny mosaic tiles/smooth glass stones/smooth stones/
Round Magnets
Cotton balls/Fuzzy balls
Legos/anything with small pieces

* Alternate materials: tongs, child chopsticks, real chopsticks, plastic tweezers

HOW TO PREPARE 事前準備

Write out a different character on each 8×11 sheet of paper. Write it large. You can also choose to cut the sheet into quarters for smaller cards.

WRITE CHINESE ACTIVITIY - Decorating/Writing Characters
(age 3+, single players)

HOW TO PLAY 玩法

Have your child trace the character a few times with their finger.
Have your child choose whatever material (eg: glass stones) to line up on the character and form the character.
Repeat until you are done with all the materials and characters you want to use.

Alternate ideas: To add a layer of difficulty, your child can use tweezers to move the objects onto the characters.

Decorating/Writing Characters,
single player

我們希望能看到你的孩子做這些遊戲的照片或影片，也希望能聽到你的意見或提問。更歡迎加入我們的【講媽 ⦁ 講爸】Facebook 群組，我們等你喔！

We would love to hear your comments and see pictures of your kids doing the activities. Make sure you join our Sagebooks HK Parent Support Facebook Group and share with us!

HOMESCHOOLING TIPS

Use the Treasure Boxes to reinforce characters and build confidence.

The Treasure Boxes are a great resource because they use only the characters (with the exception of one or two new characters) your child has learned up through the end of that set. This is a good way to build confidence in your new reader as well as provide variety from the sets.