Celebrate Chinese New Year in your classroom with this warm and cool colors art activity. These easy-to-use black-and-white art templates help students create eye-catching Chinese New Year artworks while building their understanding of color theory. Perfect for Grade Three and up, this resource blends cultural learning with visual arts in a simple, low-prep lesson.
 
Students explore warm and cool colors through guided instructions or open-ended experimentation, making this activity ideal for whole-class lessons, art rotations, or relief teacher plans. Finished artworks create an impressive Chinese New Year classroom display with minimal preparation.
 
Why teachers love this resource:
Saves time with print-and-go black and white templates
Supports explicit teaching of warm and cool colors
Integrates Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year into the Art curriculum
Creates bright, meaningful student-made classroom displays
Suitable for a wide range of ability levels in Grades 1 to 6 classrooms
 
Included in this pack:
Clear teacher instructions
Photographic examples of completed student artwork
10 black and white art templates
Templates include both colour / color spelling for international classrooms
 
What teachers say:
"This was a very good resource for me to use with my class for Chinese New Year and having two students who celebrated this holiday, everything seemed to be correct!"
"Love this! It came out so cute!"
"Great project. My kiddos really enjoyed it. Thank you so much!"
"Cute, quick and fun activity."