Lunar New Year & Valentine 2/14

Golden Dragon Parade in LA's Chinatown Feb 16, 2013, Sat 1 pm, Festival Feb 16-17, 2013, 10 am - 9 pm.

Come Celebrate BOTH Valentine’s Day, the Holiday of sharing your Love and the Lunar New Year, the beginning of the Year of the Snake with books, crafts and a Banging Parade around the park.

Supply Request: One TIE per kid (to make a snake), any Lidded cans or kleenex boxes to repurpose into a drum.

Ula For Valentine’s day, bring and share any Valentine’s cards or valen creations with your friends and join in the Craft that M&B Mom Rebecca is bringing all the supplies for a Craft to create Valentines at the park.

Happy Lunar New Year! In Vietnamese – “Chuc Mung Nam Moi!” In Korean, “Hang- bok-han sae-hae bo-nae-se-sae-yo!” And in Chinese Cantonese “Gong Hey Fat Choy!”I have fun stories from each culture that honors the New Year based on the first new moon of the year to share.

Let’s welcome the year of the WATER Snake. (The snake is all about timing in Asian astrology, so if it doesn’t feel right, wait until it does.)

1. If you bring a TIE, we can make our own Snakes in honor of this year’s Zodiac animal on the Chinese Calendar.

2. Make Drums and other musical instruments with your recyclables YOU bring from home (Coffee tins, pringles

containers and paper towel rolls, cereal or kleenex boxes)

3. Read New Year’s Books and Tell Dragon Stories as last year was the Year of the Dragon on the Asian calendar.

4. 3:00/3:30 Have our Own Lion Dance and Loud and Musical Parade to scare off the Dragons (sorry, no firecrackers!)

tet Fire

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