Mid-Autumn Festival is where the language and the culture begin โ€” together

Moon-gazing, mooncakes, lanterns โ€” and the words that come with them.

โ–ถ Start This Mid-Autumn Festival Together โ€” USD $17
โœ“ My Word Collection + 7 Mid-Autumn activity sheets โœ“ 1 online sing-along pronunciation app
โœ“ Every activity explained on our English guide page โœ“ No Chinese needed from parents
โœ“ Sheets printed in Traditional + Simplified Chinese โœ“ Instant access after checkout

"I want my child to know where they come from.
I just don't know how to teach it."

Maybe your parents spoke it at home, and you understood.

But somewhere between school, friends, and simply growing up in an English-speaking world, the language slipped away. Now you're a parent yourself, and you want something different for your child. But how do you pass on a language you can't fully speak?

You're not alone, and it's not too late.

Language researchers call this the "second-generation gap" โ€” an incredibly common pattern in immigrant and heritage families. It doesn't mean the connection is gone. It means it's waiting to be picked back up, in a way that doesn't require you to already be fluent.

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You don't have to read Chinese.
You just have to know what to do.

The activity sheets themselves are printed in real Traditional and Simplified Chinese โ€” no English on the page. That's on purpose: this is genuine Chinese for your child to grow into, not a worksheet translated down to English.

But you're never left guessing. The moment you check out, you unlock our English activity guide โ€” every activity explained step by step: what it is, what you'll need, how to do it with your child, and what it means. For the parts where pronunciation matters, our online sing-along app does the talking โ€” your child taps, listens, and repeats. No Chinese required from you at all.

New to Le Le? Start here.

This activity pack is for families just getting started with us. If you already own Le Le Chinese books, you're a Le Le member โ€” and a new themed activity pack like this one is already included for free, every month, in your member area. Log in here to check โ†’

You'll get instant access after checkout, with a login link to your Le Le App course area. Everything lives in one place โ€” play online, or download and print for your child. Every activity sheet includes Traditional Chinese + Simplified Chinese versions.

Culture and language were
never meant to be separated

A festival is never just a date on the calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival carries a language inside every part of it โ€” the words for "reunion," the story of the moon, the sound of a nursery rhyme sung at the table. When your child cuts out a paper lantern, tastes a mooncake, or hears why the moon is extra round tonight, they're not just doing a craft โ€” they're absorbing the language the culture was written in.

You don't teach a child to love a culture and separately teach them the words for it. The words arrive with the culture โ€” carried inside the story, the food, the making, the singing.

That's the doorway this Mid-Autumn Festival opens โ€” and you don't need to speak a word of Chinese to walk through it with your child. We designed 8 activities + 1 online pronunciation practice, each one a small chance for your child to hear the language, see the language, and connect it to a memory they'll keep.

9 activities,
9 chances to hear and see the language

Every activity works on its own โ€” play whichever one your child is drawn to

01 ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ My Word Collection โ€” Mid-Autumn โ€” cut + glue to collect Mid-Autumn custom words
02 ๐Ÿ“Œ Mid-Autumn Hanging Ornament โ€” colour + cut + hang
03 ๐ŸŽก Mid-Autumn Treasure Wheel โ€” cut + explore Mid-Autumn customs
04 ๐Ÿฅฎ Make Mooncakes โ€” hands-on + creative
05 ๐Ÿ”ฅ BBQ for Mid-Autumn โ€” colour + cut + BBQ fun
06 ๐Ÿ‡ Rabbit Lantern Craft โ€” colour + cut + assemble (with a video tutorial)
07 ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ Le Le Chinese Learning Placemat (Mid-Autumn) โ€” colour + matching + word search + riddles
08 ๐ŸŽต Le Le Mandarin Sing-Along (Mid-Autumn) โ€” scan the code and sing along to "Full Moon, Full Reunion"
09 ๐ŸŽค "Full Moon, Full Reunion" Pronunciation Practice โ€” tap ๐Ÿ”Š to listen slowly, tap ๐ŸŽค to repeat, get it right and check it off (online only)

Activity 09 is an online-only practice tool๏ฝœAll other activities are printable sheets in Traditional + Simplified Chinese

Who is this for?

โœ“ Parents who don't speak Chinese but want their child to feel connected to their heritage

โœ“ Second- or third-generation families rebuilding a language connection that slipped away

โœ“ Multicultural and multilingual families raising kids with more than one culture

โœ“ Homeschool parents looking for a meaningful, low-pressure way to bring culture into learning

โœ“ 2โ€“10 year olds, and the grown-ups who want to celebrate alongside them

This Mid-Autumn Festival, give your child
what you're still finding your way back to

โ–ถ Begin This Mid-Autumn Festival โ€” USD $17
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You don't have to already speak the language to start passing it on.
You just have to begin โ€”
one festival, one story, one lantern at a time.

Your child's connection to this culture doesn't depend on your fluency.
It depends on showing up together.

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