When you are living in America, it is pretty difficult to feel and experience the Japanese New Year, but we were able to enjoy many activities that had to do with the New Year thanks to the teachers who set up them up. Traditional Japanese New Year games like “Kaki-zome” (calligraphy), “Fuku-warai” (a blindfolded ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ type of game), “karuta” (a Japanese card game), and “making kagami-mochi” (a New Year’s decoration), were done to create the atmosphere of a traditional Japanese New Year for everyone.
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