It was believed that paper was one of the "Four Great Inventions (四大发明)" of China. No wonder paper cutting is one of the most famous traditional Chinese fork crafts, and is often seen around New Year, weddings and other celebrations and feasts. It can be a good project for practicing not only the students' fine motor skills, but also their planning, drawing and design skills, especially when the complexity of the project increases over time.
One of the common use of the Chinese traditional paper-cuts is to decorate doors and windows around New Year time, as referred to "chuang hua (窗花)，" meaning Window Flower. Similar to making snow flakes, cutting chuang hua seems fairly easy, with easy folds, no fixed pattern to follow but unexpected beauty at the end! Thus it became our first attempt when Chinese paper cutting was introduced to our club members in late Feb. Look what we made!
