Chinese New Year Headbands Color by Code Math Activity

Description

These Chinese New Year headbands are a fun, festive way to celebrate Lunar New Year while keeping your students sharp on essential math skills. Students solve addition and subtraction problems within 10 to color their headband by code — then cut, assemble, and wear their finished craft as a wearable keepsake. It’s the perfect combination of math practice and holiday fun!

This resource includes six different headband designs, each featuring a unique Chinese New Year theme. Images include a lucky money bag, firecrackers, a red lantern, a lion dance mask, a lucky envelope, and a plum blossom tree. Each design uses a different color key, so students practice solving equations to discover which color belongs where. Plus, you get two bonus clipart pages — one black-and-white for coloring and one pre-colored — so students can add extra decorations to their sentence strip headbands.

The resource also includes a full answer key for every headband. That means less prep time for you and more confidence checking student work. Best of all, assembly is simple. Students color on cardstock, cut out their panel, and glue it to a sentence strip. Teachers just staple the strip to fit each child’s head. It’s a true print-and-go activity that doubles as a classroom display.

This activity works beautifully as a Lunar New Year craft, a math center, an early finisher activity, or a fun sub plan during the holiday season. Because every student gets to wear their finished project, engagement stays high from start to finish. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms celebrating the Lunar New Year.

Use these Chinese New Year headbands color by code activities to make your holiday math review something students will talk about all year long!