Well, when the group woke up this morning, I bet none of them imagined that they would learn to write their names in Chinese today!
Today is the first day of the Chinese 'Year of the Tiger' and I looked up everybody's name online here http://www.chinese-tools.com/nameshttp://www.chinese-tools.com/names
and printed them off. Of course there is no such language as 'Chinese' so I'm guessing it's Mandarin, although the website doesn't actually specify, which is a shame.
The fun of the session is that NOBODY can do this writing, so there are no experts.
Ways of working were varied from tracing the characters to copying them, or even making uo our own! I also brought along tiger pictures, the character for 'Tiger' and some others like 'Friendship' 'Luck' 'Sky' 'Peace' etc.
Everyone had a go first with marker pens, then with pen and ink, some copied the tiger picture & some traced it or used it as a collage. By the end, everyone had managed to copy some Chinese characters, I was really proud (as it's by no means an easy thing to do!).
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