Bear Den Meeting 2/6

The theme for the month of February is "Chinese New Year" so at our den meeting we learned a little about the new year celebrations. On New Year's Eve they eat fish to bring a bountiful harvest from their crops. They also eat oranges for good luck, and we learned the the Chinese word for "orange" is synomous with the phrase "good luck".

Then we talked about the parades that they have to celebrate the new year, and each of the boys got to make a Chinese dragon puppet out of paper plates and tissue paper.
Next the boys made their own fortune cookies (complete with a fortune they wrote themselves) out of felt and glued it to a ring for a neckerchief slide.

At the end of the night we had homemade fortune cookies to eat, as well as candy oranges and Swedish fish, to represent all the things we had learned about. The boys had a great time learning about the Chinese New Year, and we look forward to more new stuff next week!