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Kids Zone

Make A Chinese Dragon Puppet


To celebrate Chinese New Year, we have 3 crafts for you to make. Today we’re making a Chinese Dragon Puppet.

You will need:

  • Card or a cereal box
  • A mixture of coloured paper, sweet paper, wrapping paper, kitchen foil or similar
  • One long piece of paper for the body
  • Two lolly sticks
  • Pens
  • Scissors
  • Sticky tape
  • Glue
  • Help from a grown-up!

To make:

  1. Draw a dragon’s head a tail on the card and cut them out.
  2. Cut or tear up a variety of the coloured papers, sweet wrappers, etc. Glue all over the head and tail.
  3. To make the body, take a long piece of paper or card and fold into a zig zag!
  4. Using sticky tape, secure the lolly sticks to the back of the head and tail
  5. Stick the zig zag body to the head and tail
  6. For the flames, use some yellow tissue or paper!

Have fun!