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Mid Autumn Festival

Mid Autumn Festival is coming up this weekend, September 10 2022. It’s a time to gather with friends and family and enjoy delicious foods like mooncake while gazing at the moon. Here’s a few books, songs and activities that you can do with the kids this year.

Mid Autumn Festival Books

A Big Mooncake for Little Star (小星的大月餅) by Grace Lin

ISBN: 9789865535193

A story about a little girl who sneaks a bite every night of her mooncake. This book is available in Chinese and English.

English version: Kozzi, Amazon; Chinese version: Kozzi

Cantonese read aloud: 采姐姐的故事王國 Lillian’s Story Kingdom

Mooncakes by Loretta Seto

ISBN 1459814312

This book features a family celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival while telling three of the festival tales. This book is in English.

Buy it here: Kozzi, Amazon

English read aloud: The Dream Big Bookshelf

Peppa and the Moon Festival

ISBN 9780241369067

Peppa and her friends celebrate the Moon Festival with lanterns and mooncakes.

Buy it here: Taobao

幸福月餅店 by 鄭宗弦

ISBN 9789578602731

A family own bakery shows us how to make mooncakes for Mid Autumn Festival.

Buy it here: Kozzi

Cantonese read aloud: Cantonese Mommy, Michigan Cantonese Storytime

14隻老鼠賞月 by 岩村和朗

ISBN 9787544812351

This mice family builds a moon lookout in a tree. When the moon arrives they eat delicious food and thank the moon.

Cantonese read aloud: Cantonese Mommy

Other Mid-Autumn Festival Books

Bitty Bao Mid-Autumn Festival, Mooncakes, and Our Moon. [bilingual board books with pinyin, zhuyin, traditional Chinese characters; available on Bitty Bao and Little Kozzi]

Mid-Autumn Pop Up Book – 中秋節 and 團圓中秋節.

Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival [an English book about Mid-Autumn Festival, by Grace Lin; available on Little Kozzi and Amazon]

Mid Autumn Festival Songs

望望月光 食食月餅 by Eveline (Rhythm N Rhyme) and Dorothy (Locy Lee Learning)

月餅歌 by 嘉芙姐姐

中秋佳節 by 嘉芙姐姐

中秋歌 by Sunshine Nursery Rhyme

點點燈籠 by Bettina Wan (曉樂兒歌 HealingVoices Music)

Mid Autumn Festival Activities

If you are looking for a one stop shop for activities, try out my Mid-Autumn Activity Book, available on Little Kozzi. There are flashcards to learn related vocabulary, colouring pages with stroke order characters, activities, and crafts to learn about the different traditions in an interactive, hands-on way. This activity book is bilingual and includes English and traditional Chinese characters on each page. Flashcards include jyutping (Cantonese pronunciation) and a vocabulary list that includes jyutping is included if you cannot read Chinese. Templates for all the crafts are also included. An art tutorial to draw lanterns is also included, hosted by Cherry 老師 from Children’s Cues in Cantonese. Purchase here: Mid-Autumn Activity Book

Another fun activity to do with the little ones is make mooncakes together. You can bake them or you can make them with playdough. You can purchase mooncake molds at your local Asian market or you can try Amazon. If you cannot get molds, Kumara Squad (@kyl.scrapbook) has shared a fun ecofriendly way to make them using recyclable materials. You can watch it here on her IG account, @kyl.scrapbook Playdough Mooncakes.

Lanterns is also another fun must activity for Mid-Autumn Festival. Check out these fun ideas here by Spot of Sunshine, and TVB Hands Up (Cantonese Video).

Here are also another FREE downloads that I created for Mid Autumn Festival.

Mooncake puzzles – Have fun matching mooncake puzzle pieces to form a full mooncake and match the correct words together.

Peppa Pig lantern – Print this template to make your own Peppa Pig or George lantern.

Felt mooncake pattern – Print this template and sew your own felt toy mooncakes.

Mid Autumn Festivals Videos

Follow Kala EE to a bakery to make mooncake for her favourite Mirror members while learning vocabulary. Follow Kala EE to shop to learn about lanterns and make them together while learning vocabulary (traditional Chinese characters and English translations). Toddlers to school age children will enjoy Kala EE fun and positive personality.

Learn 5 Mid-Autumn Festival vocabulary while also learning about the festival with Uncle Calvin. Great for toddlers and preschoolers. Jyutping included. Turn on subtitles for English.

TVB Hands Up has a fun skit featuring lantern riddles and toy lanterns.

Sunshine Nursery Rhyme teaches us about the tales and customs of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Learn about different vocabulary that contain the word moon 月 and also a little about the tales of Mid Autumn Festival.

Twinklebots Cantonese teaches us Mid-Autumn Festival vocabulary, Jyutping included.

Mid Autumn Festival Toys

Bitty Bao: 13-Piece Magnetic Wooden Mooncake Toy Set [Bitty Bao, Little Kozzi]

My Heart Felt Toys Felt Mooncake [My Heart Felt Toys]

Baby Snack Time Mid Autumn Moon Festival Wooden Tea Pretend Play Set [Baby Snack Time]

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Books with Jyutping

I love books with jyutping! It is inclusive to families who are learning to speak or read in Cantonese. Cantonese is a very hard language, a consistent pronunciation guide is helpful for us learners to learn together, communicate with each other and look up unfamiliar words. If you are new to jyutping, it is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Jyutping and Yale are the most common Cantonese romanization. However, I have found jyutping is more accessible than yale. To learn more about jyutping, you can watch the following videos on YouTube: jyutping introduction and Cantonese tones.

I am thrilled to see many Cantonese resources available now. The community has really thrived in the last couple of years. Below I will share some books that have jyutping that you might want to add to your home library.

If you are looking for more Cantonese content with Jyutping, make sure to check out my shop and printables for more fun activities.

Quick Links

Board Books

Duck Duck Books

  • I Am Me! 我就係我自己!
  • All Puppies Are Good Puppies 所有嘅狗仔都係乖狗仔
  • I Love You More 我最愛嘅人就係你

Available in many countries. Full list here.

Bitty Bao, Lulu Cheng & Lacey Benard

  • Counting with Dim Sum
  • The Colors of Snow Ice
  • Everyday Heroes
  • Celebrating Chinese New Year – a book about family
  • Lucky Lunar Animals – a book of animals
  • Dragon Boat Festival – a book of shapes
  • Boba Emotions – a book of emotions
  • Foodie Detectives – a book of clues
  • It’s Hot Pot Time!

Also available at Little Kozzi, Summit Kids, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

Jojo Adventure Books, Emily Shan

  • Jojo Goes to the Aquarium 祖兒去水族館
  • Jojo Goes Berry Picking 祖兒去摘莓
  • Jojo Goes to the Zoo 祖兒去動物園

Kebi Books, Nathan

  • A Magical Book of Numbers*

Also available at Little Kozzi, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

* The physical book features Mandarin text and pinyin. With the augmented reality (AR) app, the book can display Cantonese text, jyutping and Cantonese audio.

Cantonese Stories written in Conversational Cantonese

These books are written in conversational Cantonese. You will see words such as 嘅 instead of 的 and 係 instead of 是.

Little Canto Learning, Farina Leong

  • My Troublesome Little Sister 我的麻煩妹妹
  • My Grandma 我的嫲嫲, 我的婆婆

Available at Amazon.

Mooliprint, Ann Hamilton

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears 高蒂樂絲與三隻小熊
  • The Three Little Pigs 三隻小豬
  • Oh No, Monty! 唔好呀,Monty!
  • Rapunzel 長髮姑娘

Also available at Amazon.

Lele and Monkey, Tiffany Kwan

  • Lele Goes Out to Play 樂樂出去玩
  • Monkey’s Great Adventure 馬騮仔的大冒險

Also available at Little Kozzi, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

Lychee Press, Katrina Liu

  • Mina Goes to the Beach 米娜去沙灘
  • A Colorful World 彩色世界
  • I Found It 我搵到喇
  • I Love My Grandpa 我愛我嘅公公

Also available at Amazon.

Cue Education, Kapo Szeto

  • Let’s Have Dim Sum 齊齊食點心 
  • Happy Chinese New Year!​ 新年快樂!
  • Chinese Bakery 中式餅店 
  • Travel the World with Me​ 陪我環遊世界
  • My Daily Routine​ 我的日常生活
  • Who’s in the Forest? 誰在森林裡?
  • Eating Utensils 餐具
  • The Way I Feel 我的心情
  • The Everchanging Weather 多變的天氣
  • Dressing Warm for Winter 溫溫暖暖過冬天

Cat Like Studio Books, Deborah Lau

  • Today is my Birthday! 今日係我生日啊
  • Cycling in Spring 春天踩單車

Available at Amazon.

Jok Sing Jai, Samantha Chan

  • I’m Too Loud! 我太嘈啦!

Available at Amazon.

Annie Mau

Also available at Little Kozzi and more.

Hambaanglaang

  • Full Collection of 40 books, hard copy
  • Also has free resources on their website and YouTube channel

Also available at Little Kozzi and more.

Cantonese Stories Written in Standard Chinese

These books are written in the standard Chinese written form.

Jok Sing Jai, Samantha Chan

  • Who’s Not Sharing? 誰不是在分享?
  • I Love My Daddy 我愛爸爸
  • Because My Mommy Loves Me 因為我的媽媽愛我
  • Who’s The Winner? 誰勝出了?
  • What Fruit Am I? 我是什麼水果?
  • Chinese New Year Greetings For Jok Sings
  • Lucky Red Mittens 幸運紅手套

Available at Amazon.

Super Speak Juniors, M Kan & H Wang

  • Chinese Legends

Available at Amazon.

Vocabulary Books

Little Canto Learning, Farina Leong

  • My First Words in Chinese
  • Animals 動物
  • Daily Vocab
  • Food and Drink 食物和飲品
  • My House 我的屋

Available at Amazon.

Green Cow Books, Karen Yee

  • My First Everyday Words
  • My First Animals
  • My First Colors
  • My First Book of Things that Go
  • Goh Goh and Dai Dai’s
  • Big Day with Elephant

Also available at Little Kozzi, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

Level Readers

Little Bean Cantonese, Sophie & Nanz

  • 小豆釘, 40 issues available

Only available at Little Bean Cantonese’s Patreon page. Only introduction of characters includes jyutping. Rest of the text does not include jyutping.

Idioms

Ah To

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Also available at Little Kozzi

Nursery Rhymes

  • Classic Cantonese Nursery Rhymes (with Jyutping) • 廣府童謠氹氹轉(彩圖粵語注音版)
  • Cantonese Tang Poetry (with Jyutping) • 粵韻唐詩(彩圖粵語注音版)
  • Cantonese Song Poetry (with Jyutping) • 粵韻宋詞(彩圖粵語注音版)

Also available at Little Kozzi.

Learn to Speak Cantonese

Inspirlang, Jade Wu

  • Learn to Speak Cantonese I
  • Learn to Speak Cantonese 2

Also available at Amazon.

Mooliprint, Ann Hamilton

  • Every Day Cantonese for Parents

Also available at Amazon.

Cantonese for Everyone 大家嘅廣東話, Chow Bun Ching

I have 2 in stock for GTA, Ontario pick up.

Bilingual Activity Books

Sweet Note Learning, Pauline

If you are looking for more Cantonese content with Jyutping, make sure to check out my shop and printables for more fun activities.

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VisionKids Translation Pen Review

There are many translation pens out there. Many of which can only read Chinese characters in Mandarin. I was very excited to hear about this pen and how it can translate to Cantonese. Read below for my review of the pen. Please note, this is my personal experience with the pen and with the Cantonese language function only. It can translate many other languages.

Short Review

Pro’s:

  • reads simplified and traditional characters in Cantonese (wifi connection needed) and Mandarin
  • can read Chinese text in both the horizontal and vertical position (wifi connection needed)
  • translations are fair and not awkward
  • auto detects and corrects scan errors
  • text and voice translations functions

Con’s:

  • translation speed not instant
  • can read individual characters in Mandarin, not Cantonese
  • full sentence scan needed, cannot scan individual characters, words or short phrases
  • zhuyin affects scan accuracy
  • scan accuracy goes down with vertical and traditional characters in comparison to horizontal and simplified text
  • auto correct will change words if it does match their narrative

Long Review

I tried out this pen for one month with a variety of books in my home library to determine if this book would suit my family needs. For videos of the pen, please check out my Instagram post.

1. I was thrilled to find out that this pen CAN read characters in the vertical position. This only works with Wi-Fi connection for both Cantonese and Mandarin. The [100 Storey Home series] (100層樓的家) and my bridge books are printed in the vertical position. The pen worked great with the 100 Storey Home series! The bridge books that I own are also in vertical position with in line zhuyin to the right of the characters. This takes practice to get the scan correctly. If the pen picks up the zhuyin, it confuses the text as Japanese and does not read correctly. I need to scan slightly to the left. Another way to scan the text is by covering the zhuyin with a piece of paper. Since it is to the right of the characters, that is fairly easy to do. I did find that the scan accuracy does go down with vertical text and that I sometimes need to scan a few times to get it correct. I think this is an amazing feature to have and very useful for bridge books.

2. The autocorrect function is amazing but also frustrating at the same time. Sometimes I see inaccurate scans, and am ecstatic to find that the pen auto-corrected it to the right word. Sometimes it looks like the pen scans gibberish but actually scanned everything correctly. I become extremely frustrated when I see that it scanned the characters correctly but decided to change the characters to match its own narrative. Some characters that the pen consistently kept changing were toad 蟾蜍 and swing 鞦韆. Being unable to scan toad was a big deal for me as I needed to read [Frog and Toad] in Chinese and Toad comes up very often. For the majority of the text, the scans are accurate. I believe that more complex characters with more strokes are harder to scan.

3. To get an accurate scan in Chinese, you must scan a full sentence. It does not scan individual characters, words or short phrases. This was disappointing as I had seen @lahlahbanana post a video of her children using the Alpha Egg translation pen and it could scan individual characters. Once you scan the full sentence, you must wait for it to translate. Translation is not instant. The more you scan, the longer it takes to translate. This felt like a life time and I felt it really disrupted the flow of reading. The pen can tell you pronunciation for individual characters only in Mandarin with pinyin included, not Cantonese and no jyutping. I found this part very difficult as I had to listen to the audio several times to catch the target word.

4. Horizontal text with in line zhuyin really disrupts the pen scan accuracy. It will pick up the zhuyin as numbers, alphabet letters, punctuation or Japanese characters. The translation and the audio will not be the greatest but for an adult learner, you can get the gist of the translation. Not ideal for a child. To overcome this challenge, I created a zhuyin block bookmark for my [Frog and Toad] books. I was able to block the zhuyin and get an accurate scan. However I do not recommend this method unless you have a series of books that utilize the same font, size and style. This bookmark only works in my Frog and Toad set and other bridge books by the same author. All my other books with zhuyin have different font styles and sizes that it does not work.

Final Verdict

I enjoyed the pen but if it will match your family needs will depend on your home library, fluency and learning style. My home library consists of an almost equal proportion of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and traditional Chinese with zhuyin. The scans were fairly accurate and the translations were easy to understand. If you have a lot of books with zhuyin, I don’t think these translation pens are ideal. This pen did not work for my family as I am not an auditory learner. Because I had to listen to an entire sentence to learn a target word, it took multiple takes as I could never quite catch the word I needed.

I purchased this pen in hopes that I could read harder books with my children without pre-reading them. I was not able to achieve this goal for the reason above. There is no easy way out yet for me. I will most likely still have to pre-read, translate new words before reading with my child to ensure we can read our books with a good flow.

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I taught my daughter 500+ Chinese characters!

We did it! 🥳 Last month big sister and I finished Sagebooks Basic Chinese 500! It has been an amazing journey (2.5 years) learning to read Chinese together. I am not literate in Chinese and I am not a native speaker. There were definitely many challenges along the way. I wanted to just share a few things that has worked for us.

#1 Use the FREE audio! Download it! This saved us when the characters were getting harder. I recommend dividing the audio into chapters or pages and having it easily accessible on a device or c pen. I had each chapter sticker and my children are able to read them independently. This is empowering for my children! They can be in charged of their own learning, especially when I’m not around. Here’s a secret, I can add audio to my books much faster by splitting the audio file than reading it out loud and recording it. It’s also important for me for the kids to get native speaking audio (I am very tone deaf). It takes me less than 5 minutes to sticker one book. I have all the chapter audio for orange, pink and red. Send me a dm if you need this. 

UPDATE: I have all the audio for each chapter for all the sets (blue, green, orange, pink and red) in Cantonese. Thank you Cindy for finishing them off for me. I have also started on the Mandarin audio and have the audio divided by chapters for the blue and green set.

#2 Read lots and lots of fun books! Level books should not be your child’s first books. These are NOT story books. Read fun picture books first. Let them love reading. Once they start or finish level books, continue to read those fun picture books. It will supplement what they have learned. I made the mistake of treating these like picture books at the beginning and after a year of reading them, they did not learn much and we had to start over again. We now have a Chinese home library and have access to books at our local library. It’s definitely a blessing and privilege to have all of these. These books really helped us connect the meaning of the words and helped us to remember them.

If you do not have access to books, there are many YouTube stories available that you can use for reading. Although since Cantonese is a complex language, there may be some disconnect. I recommend Cantonese Mommy and Rhythm ‘N’ Rhyme read alouds as they do read in written and spoken form.

#3 Go at a pace that suits your child. For our family, that was one chapter/character per day. No revision. My daughter had various strategies for reading each chapter. Read all on her own if she knew all the characters. Repeat after me (using the audio). Listen to the whole chapter (audio) and attempt to read it all on her own. I let her decide how she will attempt each chapter and how many she would do. Occasionally she will be up for 3 chapters. It was important for her to be in charged of her own learning and her own intrinsic motivation kept her going. 

#4 Start at a time when your child is ready. Most importantly, none of these will matter if your child is not developmentally ready. Every child is different. I started noticing my child could recognized characters at 2. We started at 3, but we were unsuccessful the first year. She may not have been fully ready and I didn’t approach these books correctly. We tried again at 4 and experienced much more success. We also took a 2.5 month break after half a year. We weren’t using the audio at the time and it became increasingly difficult by the orange (3rd set). When we started again, I introduced the audio and it was more manageable for us to follow along and get through. We read a lot of other books and my daughter is able to point out words she had learned through Sage. 

These were special moments between my child and I. After each set of books, we found ourselves becoming more confident in reading. We were able to point out characters that we learned together with Sage. My youngest who is now 4, started Sage at 2. She zoomed through the first two books so fast. She wanted to mimic her older sister. However, she was not ready to read. She has taken 1.5 year break from Sage. She is just starting to show signs she is ready to read again. It’s hard but you really got to follow the pace of your child. Let them show you when they are ready. And lots of encouragement and praises go along way.

Throughout our journey, we read a lot of books and we did a lot of activities. There really is no one way to learn a language. A good combination of things will really help a child to understand the language.

Here are more FREE resources.

  • Cantonese for Families has a word list printable with all the characters and its jyutping. I used these before I switched to audio. Audio is very important for the children to hear. I found the jyutping helpful as an adult.
  • Guavarama has a hundred chart, games and other resources on her page as well. We used her hundred chart to track the characters my girls had learned.
  • Mama Baby Mandarin has tracing sheets, character search and many more resources on her page. I did not do any Sagebook worksheets with my kids. My kids traced the main character each lesson with their finger or c pen.

I have CHALK Academy to thank for introducing these books to me. She’s also another mom who was illiterate and non native in Chinese, and she inspired me to do this. I also have to thank Eveline from Rhythm ‘N’ Rhyme for bringing these books to Canada, sharing tips with me and encouraging my family along the way. I love her.

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My First Bilingual Busy Book

You can purchase My First Bilingual Busy Book 快樂學習廣東話 or 快樂學習普通話 in Cantonese or Mandarin here. It is available in traditional or simplified characters with the corresponding pronunciation guide (jyutping or pinyin).

Update: The video below is the original version created in 2021. The newest edition (2023) is bilingual with English and Chinese and contains more language options for Chinese, image below.

I’m so happy to share with you another activity book. This book was made in request by another parent. This one is geared towards young children (toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, early primary). It includes a lot of first words that your child will find helpful. This activity book was designed to be interactive and to be used more than once so that they can really learn the vocabulary. Kids learn best through repetition, consistency and through play. You may have seen this kind of book available in English. It goes by other names such as busy book or learning binder. If you are unfamiliar with these types of books, please read on.

Essentially, the pages in these books work like a puzzle. There is one correct position for the pieces and the child has to match it to the correct spot. I have included many hints to help your child do this independently such as, colour coding pieces to its correct spot and including silhouettes or outlines for your child to match. Every pieces has its corresponding Chinese character to help your child learn to identify characters. For this book, the Chinese characters that were chosen were spoken Cantonese words so the child can use them in speech. Jyutping is included for parents who are unable to read Chinese characters. Also, a QR code is available on each page that provides the audio from a native speaker for each word as well. You might recognize the voice. It’s from one of the co-founders of Little Kozzi, Charing. With these, I hope that you and your child are able to expand your vocabulary and become more comfortable including Cantonese apart of your everyday speech.

Note: This video contains a sample of the old version created in 2021.

In addition to the matching pages, I have given your child an opportunity to start on writing. You will find two pages with the eight most common Chinese strokes. Your child can practice writing them in a fun way by finishing the picture. The page that introduces numbers also includes a colour-coded stroke order to help your child learn about sequence and learn that Chinese writing follows an order. For the car page, the page with the large 車, your child can use the cars provided, and drive the car following the stroke order.

The book covers a range of topics, sample pages below:

  • Numbers
  • Shapes
  • Colours
  • Emotions
  • 12 Zodiac Animals
  • Kitchenware
  • Time
  • Music
  • Calendar, weather, seasons
  • Emergency and construction vehicles
  • Chinese strokes and character symmetry
My First Bilingual Busy Book contains 24 pages of playing and learning.

How to Construct the Book

There are many ways that you can construct this book. I will write some recommendations here. Please note, the hard part of constructing this book is cutting out each individual piece. You do not have to complete it in one sitting. If time is an issue, I would start off by cutting the pieces for the main pages that you want to learn first, and as your child starts to master the vocabulary, add on more pages and pieces so that you and your child is not overwhelmed.

• You will need Adobe Reader to open the PDF file. It can be downloaded for FREE at: http://get.adobe.com/reader/

To assemble this learning binder you will need:

  • colour printer
  • white paper/cardstock
  • a laminating machine (like this) and laminating pouches (like this or like this) *See notes at bottom of page
  • clear velcro dots (hook and loop dots)(like this)
  • paper fastener (brad fastener/split pin)(like this)
  • scissors
  • ring binder

ASSEMBLY

  • Prepare your materials.
  • Print all the pages with a colour printer (*at home or printing services).
  • Laminate the pages (*at home or laminating services). Cut out pieces you may choose to laminate whole page and then cut. Alternatively, you may choose to cut, laminate and cut again.
  • Cut out pieces. For some of the pieces, you can choose to cut close to the image or leave some extra space around the image (i.e. continents cut out pieces).
  • Affix velcro dots to the worksheet and pages. Use clear hoop and loop dots to have words or images still visible.
  • Punch a small hole into clock hands and centre of clock. Fasten the hands with a paper fastener.
  • Insert pages to a ring binder.
  • Use a dry erase or washable marker for written tasks.

There is no one correct method of utilizing a learning binder. Find what works best for your family. Here are some suggestions to guide you through the process.

  • Find a quiet space that is free from clutter.
  • Choose a time that your child is ready to learn (nourished and rested)
  • Work through one page at a time.
  • Place activity in a tray or work from the binder.
  • Your child can remove the pieces themselves (fine motor skill strengthening). You may also choose to have the pieces removed and placed on the table or in a small tray.
  • Invite your child to join you in a new activity.
  • Point to a piece and call it by the correct name. Example, red colour, say “紅色” (red colour in Cantonese is hung4 sik1). Invite your child to say the new word. Look at the worksheet together. Point out the red colour. Say “red” again. Show them how to place it on the worksheet connecting the velcro dots so it sticks. Let your child choose a piece. Call it by name if child doesn’t say it. Encourage the child to do the tasks independently while introducing new words if child does not voice it.
  • Repetition is apart of learning. Allow your child to do the activity again if they want to before moving to a new page.

*If you do not own a printer or laminator, you can bring the file to a specialty store that can help you print and laminate it. You might find printing services at your local library, pharmacy, courier store or technology store. Please call to find out about pricing. There are also self laminating sheets (like this, like this, or like this) where you do not need to use a laminating machine. I have not use these before, but they look like they should be fairly easy to use. You may also use sheet protectors (like this). Please note, with sheet protectors it is harder for the child to pull the pieces off with the velcro since it’s more flexible and movable. This only works for the full pages and not the individual pieces.

*You may also choose to use this one time by just making this a gluing activity. Once they are complete, you can make it into a book to read.

You can purchase My First Bilingual Busy Book 快樂學習廣東話 or 快樂學習普通話 in Cantonese or Mandarin here. It is available in traditional or simplified characters with the corresponding pronunciation guide (jyutping or pinyin).

First Words Poster

Also check out the poster version of the book. You can simply print and display the posters in your home space to create a print-rich home to increase exposure to Chinese. Available in Cantonese, Mandarin and with simplifed or traditional characters: First Words Poster.