Cantonese Resources for Non-Fluent Parents
It's been a minute since I've posted but I'm back to quickly say Happy Halloween! This is one of my family's favourite time of the year because it's an opportunity to feel fun and festive without any of the pressures that Christmas can bring. Let's get spooky with some activity sheets! Colouring Activities and Printables… Continue reading Cantonese Halloween Activity Sheets
Cooking has deep roots in AJ’s family. His maternal great grandad was a chef as well as his paternal grandad. Food, especially Cantonese cuisine, plays a huge part in my family’s identity and heritage. This is why I was delighted to fine one of AJ’s favourite things to play with is his toy kitchen. I’ve… Continue reading DIY Cantonese Play Food Labels
Happy Easter to all who celebrate! As a child, we never really did Easter but this time of year always feels like something that needs to be celebrated. After a week of rain and hail, today on Good Friday, the sun has been shining all day. My garden has started to bud. Spring has sprung!… Continue reading Cantonese Easter Activity Sheets
新年快樂 san1 nin4 faai3 lok6! I hope everyone is having a wonderful New Years. After our exhausting drive last week, we had an amazing reunion dinner (my baby and my partner’s first one). It was so good to see my family and well worth the trip. We’re now looking forward to the Lantern Festival next… Continue reading Lantern Riddles Activity Sheet
Happy nearly new year! I’m posting this slightly later than anticipated because we’ve just spent 6 hours in the car to travel to my 嫲嫲 maa4 maa4’s house (it was suppose to be a 3 hour journey). I hope your run up to new year’s is going smoother! If you need to keep the kids… Continue reading CNY Year of the Rabbit Fai Chun Activity Sheets
It’s been a little while since I’ve managed to post as I’ve been quite busy relearning my job after a year’s maternity leave, fulfilling busy book orders, and keeping my now toddler alive (AJ is at the pulling himself up stage, which has resulted in some furniture being tipped!) As the end of the year… Continue reading Cantonese Christmas Activity Sheets
My apologies that it has been a short while since my last post. My weeks have been full of making busy books (email me if you would like to purchase a personalised copy) and soaking up what’s left of my maternity leave (I’m back at work tomorrow!) Regular readers may know it’s a little goal… Continue reading The Tooth Brushing Song
Space is seriously cool to learn about. As a kid, I loved learning about the different planets in our solar system and still feel personally offended at Pluto’s fall from planet status (anyone else?) However, I didn’t realise that the planets are even cooler in Cantonese! Let me tell you how. How the Planets got… Continue reading Planets of the Solar System Activity Sheets
For our preultimate Sing and Sign lesson, we are covering family members. Even though naming relatives is straightforward in English, my partner still mixes up the words cousin and uncle, and the words mother-in-law and stepmother. I told him he would never have survived growing up in a Cantonese household and showed him one of… Continue reading Cantonese Family Trees and Relative Names (Baby Sign Language – Week 9)
Now that I have AJ, I’ve realised that I don’t know that many children’s songs in English and I knew no songs in Cantonese. I’m slowly growing confidence in singing to AJ in Cantonese anod it’s been fun learning all these fun new songs! One new favourite is the song “Five Little Ducks”- it’s perfect… Continue reading Five Little Ducks Cantonese and Jyutping Lyrics
Mama Bear Cantonese 