Happy New Year! And in just a couple of weeks, Happy Chinese New Year!

This year will the the year of the dragon which will give plenty of scope for exciting and colourful activities.

A quick search on YouTube will come up with plenty of dragon dance videos. Here are two short ones for starters. The second dance is accompanied just by cymbals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUnWPpRslM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apimBqgTeBA&feature=related

The Mamalisa website is a favourite source of mine for children’s songs from around the world. Here is the link to the China page; http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=11&t=ec&c=11