The New Year is a great time for daycare providers to enhance their lesson plans with story time books and fun New Year’s Day activities. It is also a good time to discuss how the New Year is celebrated in other cultures. Consider the following reading lists and resources for free New Year worksheets, coloring pages, and handwriting practice sheets for your child care center:
Reading List
New Year’s Picture Books Age 4-8
The Night Before New Year’s (Reading Railroad) by Natasha Wing and Amy Wummer (Nov 25, 2009)
Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller and Kathi Ember (Sep 1, 2010)
Shanté Keys and the New Year’s Peas by Gail Piernas-Davenport and Marion Eldridge (Jan 1, 2007)
P. Bear’s New Year’s Party: A Counting Book by Owen Paul Lewis and Paul Owen Lewis (Jan 1, 1999)
Bringing in the New Year (Read to a Child!: Level 2) by Grace Lin (Dec 14, 2010)
Lanterns and Firecrackers: A Chinese New Year Story (Festival Time) by Jonny Zucker and Jan Barger Cohen (Dec 2, 2003)
Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith and Lawrence Migdale (Aug 1999)
Chinese New Year (Rookie Read-About Holidays) by David F. Marx (Mar 2002)
Happy, Happy Chinese New Year! by Demi (Nov 11, 2003)
Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year (Reading Rainbow Books) by Kate Waters and Martha Cooper (Jan 1, 1991)
This Next New Year by Janet S. Wong and Yangsook Choi (Sep 18, 2000)
New Year’s Day (Celebrations in My World) by Lynn Peppas (Jan 15, 2010)
New Year’s Books for Children 9-12
New Year’s Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays) by David F. Marx (Sep 2000)
A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) by Ron Roy and John Steven Gurney (Nov 22, 2011)
Happy New Year, Mallory! (Mallory (Quality)) by Laurie Friedman and Jennifer Kalis (Sep 2010)
Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns by Carolyn Otto (Jan 13, 2009)
Happy New Year, Julie (American Girl) by Megan Mcdonald and Robert Hunt (Sep 1, 2007)
Just In Time For New Year’s!: A Harry & Emily Adventure (Holiday House Reader) by Karen Gray Ruelle (Sep 30, 2004)
Sliding Into the New Year (YaYa & YoYo, Book 1) by Dori Weinstein (Mar 1, 2011)
New Years’ Day (True Books: Holidays) by Dana Meachen Rau (Sep 2000)
A Happy New Year’s Day by Roch Carrier and Gilles Pelletier (Sep 1, 1991)
Happy New Year! by Emery Bernhard (Sep 1, 1996)
Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year (The Kids of the Polk Street School) by Patricia Reilly Giff (Oct 1, 1990)
Free New Year’s Worksheets and Coloring Pages
There are many worksheets pertaining to the New Year that you can print out and use for your lesson plans and activities. Worksheets should include coloring pages, handwriting worksheets, and printable craft patterns.
The following websites provide free printables with New Year’s theme:
Apples4theteacher.com: New Year’s coloring pages for preschoolers
ABCTeach: New Year’s Day themed printables, coloring pages, and patterns
DLTK’s Crafts for Kids: Earth Day worksheets, coloring pages, crafts, games and puzzles
Enchanted Learning: New Year’s Day printable worksheets
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