Chinese New Year 2025 Team Bonding Activities

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Celebrate Chinese New Year with Therapeutic Art Session with Your Team!

Chinese Ink Painting, Time flies! And here we are, counting down the end of year 2024 with the jolly Merry Christmas season, and welcoming the start of the Lunar New Year 2025 Snake Year! 

With Chinese New Year 2025 arriving soon, are you excited and yet worried about how to celebrate the festive season with your employees? Why don’t you engage with employees and their family members with interesting art- themed special year end large fun parties? 

It is a Chinese traditional custom to write spring festival Chinese Ink couplets and do paper-cutting with auspicious patterns to express well wishes for family and friends with good luck and prosperity. In modern days, corporate team bonding through Chinese Ink Painting, couplet writing would bless the company with great success.

Here at Visual Arts Centre, we present corporate team bonding events with a Chinese Ink theme in line with Chinese New Year to bring a great unique experience for employees.

1. Chinese Ink Painting - Couplet Painting

Convey your greetings and blessings to your family and friends!

Chinese couplet writing team bonding art jamming (1)
Chinese Ink Painting
Chinese Ink Painting art
Chinese Ink Painting course

Couplet painting uses black Chinese ink on red auspicious paper.  It can be seen hung on both sides of a door.

It represents blessings like good health, prosperous business wealth and happiness for the whole family during Chinese New Year. During the Visual Arts Centre Chinese New Year team bonding event, participants can bring home their piece of couplets and decorate their home’s doorway.

Couplet painting

2. Chinese Ink Painting - Fan Painting

Learn to compose and paint your own Chinese ink painting!

Solana - Chinese Ink Painting and Calligraphy Fan Painting Art Jamming team bonding
Chinese Calligraphy and Ink Painting on Fan/ Scroll/ Rice Paper / Couplet writing Team bonding team building art jamming Visual Arts Centre Singapore
fruit art
flower art

Engage your team and join us in Chinese Ink Painting – Fan Painting Team Bonding! Learn the beautiful and tradition-rich art of Chinese ink painting and express various subjects! Symbolising prosperity, harmony and good fortune, Chinese ink painting subjects such as Koi fishes, Goldfishes, Bamboo, Mandarins and Plum blossoms are common subjects painted during the Chinese New Year season!

Engage your team and join us in Chinese Ink Painting

Participants are enjoying the learning of Chinese ink painting and this is a fun and new experience for teams! Learn painting together and work on a Fan painting to bring home or to decorate the office!

chinese ink painting and calligraphy workshop

Fan paintings symbolize a person’s status and virtues. 

Common fan painting subjects like Four Gentlemen plants: plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum represent personal values like humility, purity, righteousness, and perseverance. During the Visual Arts Centre Chinese New Year team bonding event, participants will complete and bring home their own unique piece of fan painting and even give it to the clients as a gift!

Individuals or Smaller Groups May Join Our Upcoming Chinese Ink Painting & Calligraphy Workshop

 

3. Chinese Ink Painting - Prosperous and Harmony Picture

Choose to paint on scrolls or various fan shapes!

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Visual Arts Centre Chinese Ink Painting – Fan Painting Art Jamming

4. Traditional Paper Cutting ​

Traditional paper cutting during the festive Chinese New Year season is one of the oldest forms of practice that is passed on for generations and still practiced till today. Whenever Chinese New Year is round the corner, families would adorn their households with these red paper cuttings to express their thoughts for the new year.

Come, gather your team and join us in the team bonding art jamming of traditional paper cutting as we keep this practice alive this Chinese New Year! 

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traditional paper cuttings

All completed traditional paper cuttings can be put up on display at home to usher in the Chinese New Year, or exchanged with one another as a way of sharing your blessings.

5. God of Wealth - Plaster Cast Sculpture Painting

God of Wealth

Before and After the Sculpture Painting on the “God of Wealth” Plaster Cast

Before and After the Sculpture Painting on the "God of Wealth" Plaster Cast
 

Paint interesting plaster cast sculpture on the “God of Wealth” sculptures provided or other subjects according to your favourite colours! This is very personalised according to every individual and groups. When completed, everyone gets to take home a self-personalised Painted “God of Wealth” Cast Sculpture with their own chosen colours. 

6. Other Chinese New Year Craft Activities

Decorative Ornaments

Decorate your own DIY ornaments based on the different Chinese New Year themes.

Decorative Ornaments

Blessing Egg Painting

Express your creativity through our Blessing Egg Painting workshop, where you can create any designs per your wish!

Blessing Egg Painting
Egg Painting

All art materials provided and full professional instructors’ guidance available.

Wishing you Great Happiness, Health and Peace ahead!

Contact us to customise your Chinese New Year Team Bonding event, whatsapp/call us at 6255 0711 or email us at info@visualartscentre.sg

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Visual Arts Centre Past Client Team Building Art Jamming
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Visual Arts Centre past clients team building team bonding art jamming

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Dhoby Ghaut Art Studio​

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10 Penang Road, #01-02 Dhoby Ghaut Green,
Singapore 238469

Exit from Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station Exit B and turn left, we are there in 30m!

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Singapore 409105

Exit from Macpherson MRT Station Exit A and turn left, we are right across the road, 1 minute walk away!

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