Chinese New Year 2021 Red Firecracker Ox Craft and Free Printable Design

Chinese New Year 2021 Red Firecracker Ox Craft and Free Printable Design

Chinese New Year(Spring Festival) 2021

Chinese New Year this year is February 12th, 2021. Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar.

The Chinese New Year(Spring Festival), traditionally is celebrated for 16 days. This year’s Spring festival starts on February 12th, 2021, and will last until February 22nd, 2021.

The Chinese Zodiac sign for 2021 is the Ox. People born in the year of the Ox are considered to have an honest and hardworking character.

In celebration of Chinese New Year this year, we created a cute papercraft to get even more into the spirit of the season!

Making the Red Firecracker Ox Craft

Check out our video below for a general walkthrough of the steps we took to put this craft together.

You will need to print the Ox design from our site or you can provide a design of your own choosing.

Items and materials needed for the craft.

• Red construction paper for the pendant backing and (7) smaller pieces of construction paper for making the firecracker rolls.
• We used a 3M scotch washi tape for the gold wrapping on the firecrackers.
• Glue stick to glue items together.
• Stapler for reinforcing firecracker rolls after rolling and gluing them.
• Red Ribbon
• Yellow Construction paper
• Hole Puncher
• Scissors

Steps To Create The Red Firecracker Ox Craft

1. Cut out the ox design to the desired size that you wish to do from the (3) included Ox sizes. For this blog post example, we did the largest Ox design.
2. You will need a square cut a red piece of construction paper for the backing of the Ox design. The one we used for this project was 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″.
3. You will then need a piece of yellow construction paper cut square to glue onto the red piece. The one for the largest design we used was cut 7″ x 7″ square.
4. We glued the yellow sheet down onto the red piece and then glued the Ox design down to the yellow piece of paper.
5. We then used letter-sized red construction paper. We folded the paper in half and then in half again in order to make small papers for the firecrackers.
6. We placed a layer of glue on one side of the red paper and rolled it into the firecracker shape. We then wrapped gold washi tape at both ends of the firecracker for each of the (7) firecracker rolls.
7. Then you will want to cut (4) lengths of red ribbon equal lengths approximately 24″ in length. You will punch a hole in the paper at the bottom of the pendant and at the top of the pendant.
8. Use some scotch tape to tape from one end of the firecracker to the other end with (1) of the red ribbons and tie to the bottom of the red pendant.
9. Then pair (2) firecracker rolls and do the same taping one side of the red ribbon to the firecracker roll to the other side of the ribbon. Once you have (3) sets of (2) firecracker rolls you will then tie each of the sets to the single ribbon that you added to the pendant in step #7.
10. Cut a smaller red ribbon and tie a loop at the top of the pendant for hanging.

Let us know what you like to do on Chinese New Year down in the comments below. We hope you enjoy this Chinese New Year Kids craft and have a great Chinese New Year!