In art classes at Northern Liberties Recreation Center, students learned their Chinese Calendar animal using their birth year. They made layered crayon rubbings of all the different textures they could find in the classroom to decorate the bodies of their snakes with scales and patterns. Using tape, they made the heads of their snakes 3-dimensional. Youth at Cohox Rec also participated in making 3-D crayon rubbing snakes!
The Chineese New Year begins on January 29, 2025 and lasts until February 4th, 2025. It is the Year of the Earth Snake. Read about The Year of the Snake.
Here is another link to find the Chineese animal sign for your birth year.
Click the first button to download a PDF of the green snake. Cut on the dotted lines and put tape underneath the head to make it 3-D.