Celebrating the Lunar New Year is a great cultural experience in middle school. This activity is simple but meaningful. Each student will do some basic research on a zodiac animal and complete the agamograph craft project. Kids will color one of the animals, create an appropriate background, and then create a symbol to represent the animal based on their research. Agamographs are designed as an "optical illusion", where depending on the angle, kids will see either the picture or the word (