Meet Jia, an 8-year-old on her way to becoming a great travel writer. In four original audio stories, your family will help save the Lunar New Year celebration in her grandparents’ village, follow a spy around Beijing, search for a lost baby panda in the mountains and camp at the Great Wall of China. Each story is about 30 minutes and made for kids ages 5–11. This China country set also includes 9 printables, two recipes and a full country guide.
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Jia is an 8-year-old on a mission — to find beauty in every place she goes and to tell the world about it. When Jia and her parents visit her grandparents in their small Chinese village for the New Year holiday, disaster strikes. Will Jia be able to restore one of the town’s oldest and most beautiful New Year traditions?
China stretches from the Gobi Desert in the north to tropical beaches in the south, with the Himalayas to the southwest and its capital, Beijing, near the Great Wall. This part of the country guide explores Chinese geography with maps, the Chinese zodiac, kind and lucky Chinese dragons, how Chinese characters work, and the Great Wall. Kids can also sketch and color a giant panda in pastel with art teacher Susan Garrison, in a lesson made just for Around the World Stories.
Did you know? Much of the Great Wall was held together with a surprising ingredient: sticky rice. And no, you can’t see it from the moon.
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Learn the graceful ritual of serving Chinese tea, the polite rules for giving a gift in China (why you offer it with two hands, and why eight is a lucky number), and how to use chopsticks. Then test your skills with a printable chopstick challenge!
Did you know? Chinese dragons are kind and bring good luck, which is why dragon dances are a Lunar New Year tradition.
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Two recipes to make together: Slurpable Noodle Soup (in China, slurping isn’t rude!) and Lucky New Year Dumplings, folded to look like little money pouches and filled with sweet potato. Each one comes as a printable recipe card.
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Print, color and play: a Chinese zodiac chart, a China map coloring page, East and Southeast Asia map challenges, Great Wall and panda coloring pages, Chinese character writing practice, a chopstick challenge and both recipe cards.
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