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January Kids Craft Club: Fancy Frames

Craft supplies to make fancy picture frames

Have some fantastic drawings or photo memories from 2011? Put them in a fancy frame! The January Kids Craft Club package includes all the supplies your tot needs to make a selection of photo frames to show off their artwork or pictures. It’s like art within art! Join the Kids Craft Club before January 23rd to get your Fancy Frames package. Easy for you and fun for your kids, the Kids Craft Club sparks creativity with new eco-friendly crafts every month.

February Kids Craft Club: Treasure Boxes

Make Treasure boxes with these craft supplies

The February Kids Craft Club package is brought to you by the colours Red, Pink and Purple! February is all about treasures that are close to the heart, and about getting special mail, so we thought some Treasure Boxes were in order. Assemble materials into a keepsake box, mail container, or piggy bank, and decorate with a selection of colourful craft supplies and hearty shapes. Start your Kids Craft Club subscription with the February crafts by noting ‘February’ in your order. Subscribe here.

Valentines Card Making Kits Available Now!

Get started on a fun craft project that can keep the kids entertained all month long – make handmade Valentines! Our most popular card kits, these seasonal Valentine kits come with either Construction or Critters themes. Choose from a 24 card class pack, or an 8 card/envelope pack. Use code ‘craftyvalentines’ to receive 8 bonus Valentine stickers with your class pack of cards. View Card making Kits

Chinese New Year – 3 Dragon Puppets to Make

January Craft Idea for kids Year of the Dragon

We played around with paper bags, toilet rolls, craft sticks and scissors, and came up with three fun dragon crafts. Use our dragon template to make a paper bag puppet dragon, practice shape recognition while you work, or use toilet paper rolls for a dancing dragon. Find the craft instructions and puppet template here

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

Dragon Puppet Template for Chinese New Year Kids Dragon 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?

Dragon puppet craft for Chinese New Year

3. Toilet Roll Dragon Stick Puppet Craft

Year of the Dragon Chinese New Year Craft for kids

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

Dragon Craft for Kids using rainbow tissue paper

Step 2: make a slit in the ends of 2 toilet rolls so the craft sticks can slide in. Secure them with tape

How to use Toilet paper rolls for dragon craft

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

Dragon Dance craft for Lunar New year

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!

Crafts for Kids Dragon Craft with rainbow colours