2012 is the year of the Dragon. Here are three Dragon puppet ideas you can make at home, daycare, or preschool:
1. Paper Bag Dragon Puppet Craft
Supplies: red paper bag, red, orange, black, and white paper, orange tissue. Dragon puppet template
Step 1: Make your paper bag look ‘dragony’ by cutting the bottom edge into a jagged zig zag.
Step 2: Cut dragon pieces using dragon template. Use red for the dragon mouth and largest circles, orange for ears and medium circles, black for small circles, eyebrows, and nostrils. Cut zig zag strips of white teeth
Step 3: Glue dragon eyes to front of bag flap. Glue ears to the back side of the puppet.
Step 4: Make dragon mouth. Glue nostrils to the ends of mouth shape. Open mouth and glue strips of teeth to top and bottom. Crumple a piece of tissue and glue it to the centre of mouth, to make a fire breathing dragon
Step 5: Lift flap of bag and add glue to the underside of flap, on top and bottom. Push folded end of dragon mouth into glued area of flap and then squeeze the flap together so mouth is firmly pressed onto puppet . Let your craft dry.
2. Dragon Craft with Basic Shapes
This is a good one if you want to practice cutting and basic shape identification. Use small, medium, and large circles for eyes. Use Large triangles for dragon mouth. Use medium triangles for spikes on the back of your dragon’s head. Use small triangles for sharp teeth. Rectangles are used for eyebrows. Can you use other shapes to make your dragon even more unique?
3. Toilet Roll Dragon Stick Puppet Craft
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Supplies:
Red poster paper (we used dark pink 11×14 paper) Toilet paper rolls 2 large craft sticks Tissue squares and other decorating pieces Markers, crayons or pencil crayons Scissors |
Step 1: cut long edges of poster paper into scalloped edge, and decorate entire paper with tissue squares and other decorating pieces
Step 2: make a slit in the ends of 2 toilet rolls so the craft sticks can slide in. Secure them with tape
Step 3: Glue the toilet rolls to the underside of decorated poster paper. Leave some space between rolls so your dragon will be able to move. We used 3 toilet rolls in total, but it probably would work even better to cut the rolls in half and use 3 halves instead. This will create more space between each roll so your dragon can twist and turn more easily
Step 4: Cut a dragon head from poster paper. Decorate the head in the same way you decorated the body. Flip your dragon body right-side up and glue head to body. Now you can make your dragon dance by moving the craft sticks back and forth!
