Celebrate The Year of the Dragon Sunday At Little Red Schoolhouse

WILLOW SPRINGS, IL — Welcome good luck and fortune to you and your family in 2024 by celebrating the Lunar New Year with the Forest Preserves of Cook County this Sunday, Feb. 4.

Pop in anytime between 10 a.m. and noon at the Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center, 9800 Willow Springs Road, Willow Springs, in the Palos Forest Preserves, and get an early start celebrating the Year of the Dragon.

Have fun learning about Asian culture and customs through activities, crafts and games. Activities feature calligraphy, dragon scavenger hunts, lion dances, and crafting dragons, rattle drums, and lanterns.

The Chinese Storytellers of Naperville and the Chinese Neighborhood Parents Association will tell exciting stories and lead activities. Enjoy a cup of tea and light refreshments during your visit. No registration is required and the event is free.

The Year of the Dragon falls every seven years on the Chinese Zodiac. The dragon (actually the “wood dragon”) represents good luck, justice, prosperity and strength. People born in the year of the dragon are seen as charismatic, intelligent, confident, powerful, naturally lucky and gifted.