 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac in a hand painted paper cut ~ a gift from a student! | Today - February 19th- is the start of the Chinese New Year, the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar. 2015 is The Year of the Goat, but you may see it referred to as The Year of the Sheep too. That's because the Chinese character yang can translate as goat or sheep. The students at Blue Church Art celebrated Chinese New Year 2015 by creating some very cool artwork. |
 Piper |  Siobhan |
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 Connor |  Makenzie |  Parker |
 Alyssa |  Mikayla |  Ava K. |
 Riley |  Megan K. |  Mason |
 Megan M. |  Evan |  Laney |
Sheep, Sheep, and MORE Sheep
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 Matthew |  Maddi L. |  Chloe |
 Sierra |  Carter |  Joshua |
 Celia |  Zoe |  Gavin |
 Peyton |  Annemarie |  Emmett |
 Cameron |  Madison C. |  Ashlee |
 Vivian |  Madeline C. |  Kendall |
 Brianna |  Avi |  Madeline H. |
 Lucia |  Colby |  Bridget |
 Scott |  Reva |  Jack |
 Molly |  Samantha |  Megan Z. |
 John Paul |  Kate |
More masterpieces ~ a Chinese temple, a beautiful golden-tailed fish, an unusual Chinese New Year goat, and another…sheep?
 Sarah |  Yan |
 Gabriel |  Thomas |
The cute sisters came to class in traditional Chinese dress.
No Chinese New Year would be complete without dragons! Some of the kids made dragon puppets, and one made a Chinese lantern.
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Other students drew and painted wonderful dragons.
These young ladies drew dragons using colored pencils on red paper
 Corinne |  Kate |  Ella |
Students in grade 4 and up classes ~including adult students ~ created these enchanting dragons:
 Elizabeth |  Morgan |
 Sarah |  Addie |
 Cora |  Aidan |
 Jessie C.  Chrissy |  Ethan  Stella |
 Ava L. |  Mark |
 Jessica K.  Jack F. |  Cam F.  Toby |
 Sophia B.  Jack Z. |  Jessica M.  Hanna S. |
 Mitchell |  Austin |
 Lorelei |  Jill M. |
 Sam |  Savannah |
 Lauren D. |  Sophia P. |
 Lucas  Sierra W.  Molly S.  Kacey  Lauren R. |  Marissa  Max  Jill G.  Ise Hey! Mushu, the dragon from Disney's animated film Mulan, has sneaked into our Chinese New Year blog post:-) |
Younger students painted these lively dragons:
 Carter |  Celia |
 Kayla |  Chloe |
 Matt |  Joshua |
 Gavin |  Sierra |
 Peyton |  Madison C. |
Cameron E.
One student's mom and dad came to art class to celebrate Chinese New Year, too! Everyone in this family is a talented artist.
| Another student brought delicious red bean Mochi cake (nian gao) made by her mother ~ a very special and DELICIOUS treat! I was also given a pretty paper envelope containing a lucky Chinese coin. The coin has a square hole in the middle, representing both heaven (the circle) and earth (the square). I hope it's really a lucky coin. |  |
Happy New Year, everyone!!
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