Montessori Activity: Tracing Chinese Character with Feathers

Age: From 3.5 years old

Objectives:

1. To provide a fun way to teach writing Chinese characters

2. To train the child's fine motor skills

Materials:

1. 1 bowl contains feathers

2. 1 Chinese Character chicken
3. 1 glue stick
4. 1 toy chicken (optional)

5. 1 tray

Directions:

1. Demonstrate to your child how to trace the Chinese character using the glue, taking care to show her the correct sequence of strokes.

2. As you trace, read the Chinese character clearly to your child.
3. Let her try to paste the feathers onto the Chinese character.

4. As her to say out loud the Chinese character that she is tracing.

Additional Information:

I tried this activity with C today 23 November 2019 (3Y6M7D). She enjoys pasting the feathers. It is hard to recognize the Chinese character, when it is full of feathers, but it is for the fun for it and the purpose is to cultivate love for learning Chinese.