Year of the Snake Crafts – Merrill Memorial Library

Join Jennifer DeCristoforo and Lucky Bamboo Crafts at the public library in Yarmouth, Maine for a fun and free drop-in craft workshop. We will be celebrating The Year of the Snake 2025 and kids can learn about this major Chinese holiday, Lunar New Year, while we enjoy crafting together. All supplies and instruction by Jennifer and the children’s library staff will be provided.

CAFAM Chinese New Year Festival

Join Jennifer DeCristoforo and Lucky Bamboo Crafts for this Year of the Snake Chinese New Year 2025 celebration sponsored by the Chinese & American Friendship Association of Maine. The festival includes Chinese culture demonstrations, workshops, exhibitors, delicious food, a lion dance, and of course lots of great hands-on snake crafts for the kids! We hope to see you there!

Chinese Culture Day – Falmouth Middle School

Jennifer DeCristoforo will bring Lucky Bamboo Crafts to Falmouth Middle School, Maine to help celebrate ‘Year of the Dragon’. The wonderful classroom staff and librarian are planning a day-long program to share lesson plans and Chinese culture projects with their 6th-grade students.

This is an internal school event, not open to the public.

Lunar New Year – Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine

Jennifer DeCristoforo and Lucky Bamboo Crafts will offer hands-on crafts for Year of the Dragon in the museum’s  MakerSpace. It is a privilege to be invited to share special Lunar New Year crafts in this fantastic, new children’s museum in Portland, Maine.

CAFAM Lunar New Year Celebration

Join Jennifer DeCristoforo and Lucky Bamboo Crafts for this Year of the Dragon Chinese New Year 2024 celebration sponsored by the Chinese & American Friendship Association of Maine. The festival includes dazzling cultural performances, workshops, delicious food, a lion dance, and of course lots of great hands-on dragon crafts for the kids! We hope to see you there!

Maine Chinese Conference

Jennifer DeCristoforo, author of Lucky Bamboo Book of Crafts will be an exhibitor at the Maine Chinese Conference in Bangor, Maine on Saturday, October 14, 2023. She will meet educators, students and other professionals from language learning communities all along the East Coast. She will share ideas for integrating Chinese crafts with Mandarin learning in the classroom, have books for sale. and offer some free materials. From 11a.m. – 12p.m., she will offer a demonstration of crafts from the book. This event requires registration.

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival – Merrill Memorial Library

Join Jennifer DeCristoforo and Lucky Bamboo Crafts at the library in Yarmouth, Maine for a fun and free drop-in craft workshop. We will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and kids can learn about this major Chinese holiday while we enjoy crafting together. All supplies and instruction by Jennifer and the children’s library staff will be provided.

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival – Merrill Memorial Library

Join Jennifer DeCristoforo and Lucky Bamboo Crafts at the library for a fun and free make-and-take lantern workshop. We will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and kids can learn about this major Chinese holiday while we enjoy crafting together. All supplies and instruction will be provided.