Ho Chi Minh City preschool children carve watermelons and wrap banh chung to celebrate Tet early

Children and teacher carve watermelon to celebrate Tet

This morning, January 29, the traditional New Year festival took place jubilantly at Thanh Pho Kindergarten (Tran Quoc Thao Street, District 3, HCMC).

In the atmosphere of the December days, preparing to welcome the traditional New Year of Giap Thin 2024, teachers and students of Thanh Pho Kindergarten participated in the folk New Year festival, recreating the traditional New Year with beautiful customs and traditional dishes.

Children learned to wrap banh chung with a model. The teachers also prepared boiled banh chung so that the children could enjoy it in class at lunch.

Many children were excited when they tried to wrap a banh chung for the first time.

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In the outdoor space of the school yard, on the grass, teachers, preschool children and parents make rice paper, make coconut jam, carve watermelon, wrap banh chung, make nougat, make clay figurines, make grasshoppers in coconut leaves...

Ms. Mai Yen Hang, Principal of Thanh Pho Kindergarten, said that Lunar New Year 2024 is coming. This week, the school organizes a folk festival, spring art performances, and activities to help children have a fun time at school, while also understanding more about the traditional New Year.

The stall of the "calligraphy lady" writing calligraphy in spring with the attention of preschool children

Children get to wrap their own happy candies

Each child can eat the finished product they make and can wrap a portion to bring home to show their parents.

The teachers personally made rice paper for the children to see. The rice paper was dried on bamboo mats, simulating a countryside village.

Children can also try the crispy baked rice paper products.

The City Kindergarten under the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City has more than 500 children in 17 classes, with an area of ​​nearly 10,000 ^m2 . The school has a cool green space with a school garden and lawn. The classrooms are designed with many windows to welcome natural sunlight and wind.

Aiming to build a happy school that focuses on children and learning through play, the school builds all activities to celebrate Tet and traditional Tet based on the preschool education program framework, training children in thinking, many skills, qualities, positive emotions...

The school yard is colorful on the traditional New Year festival day

Parents come to school, teach children how to make coconut jam and enjoy the sweet jam just made

Teacher and students of kindergarten class embroider together in the school garden

Children next to a candy stall

Children also got to see artisans folding grasshoppers, fish... from coconut leaves during the traditional New Year festival.

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