My daughter is half Chinese half Caucasian and since she was born I’ve been talking to her in Chinese. I’m a CBC so my Chinese isn’t the best and I‘m not literate in the language either. My parents are helping, so does Youtube and Google. The one thing I’m worried about is that I’ll run out of things to say to my daughter so I’m grateful that I found Chalk Academy that has inspired me to do so many different activities with her. The airplane game Chalk Academy had was a little too advanced for my daughter, it had airports and country names etc. My daughter is only 15 months old so decided to “dumb” down the game for her. Well she’s never seen an airplane let alone an airport before. She doesn’t know the world outside where we live. So the concepts are pretty foreign to her. I’m happy to try out the game to let her experience new things and to see how she will improve in the future if we play the game again. So this airplane fun in Chinese with toddler is great for kids 15 – 18 months old.
Airplane Fun in Chinese with Toddlers
Chinese Vocabulary
We just focused on one word for this game, airplane; something that flies in the air.
- Airplane (飛機, fei gei)
The purpose of the game was just to get her to start to understand that objects can fly in the air, like paper or a big machine. Since we are stuck inside during the pandemic and she’s not really outside her stroller that much, she really hardly sees any airplanes. Especially when there are not many flights happening and we haven’t taken any vacation since she was born, she’s never seen an airplane, airport or any sort of flying object. I just took a piece of paper and folded it into an airplane and wrote the Chinese words for airplane on it. Then flew the paper airplanes around the room.
What you need:
- paper
- Black sharpie
Result:
She wasn’t that interested in the flying paper contraption mommy made her. After she saw me throw it a couple times and identifying that’s it’s a 飛機 and it was flying into the wall etc, she took interest in it. She pretty soon was picking it up and trying to throw it. Paper airplanes are a little hard to throw if you don’t throw it properly so when she threw them it just landed on the ground. So it will take more practice for her to learn how to throw one. It was a fun 15 minute game. Will have to play it more in the future when she gets older. I had fun talking to her in Chinese about it and that really was the purpose of the game. Have fun!
Mommy Dragon
