Cupcake Liner Chinese Dragon Craft

After a season of baking, you probably have a few cupcake liners lying around, and with this Chinese dragon cupcake liners craft, your kids can use them creatively.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with this colorful art activity and get kids to build a fun-looking Chinese dragon. All colors work; however, the colors red, orange and yellow really capture the spirit of this celebration.

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This is a great project to use up those scraps of paper.

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How to make handmade Chinese dragon cupcake liners

What you need:

drag
glue
black cardboard
cupcake liners (orange, red, yellow or other colors)
two innocent eyes
paper/tissue paper

Step-by-step instructions

Prepare cardboard for the background. You can use any color; We recommend black because it really makes the Chinese dragon stand out.

Now, gather up those colorful cupcake liners. They are the magic ingredients to create this dragon’s body.

Have your child fold the cupcake liners in half.

Apply a wavy line of glue to the cardstock or apply glue to each cupcake liner.

Glue the folded cupcake liners.

Ask kids to add more color by folding several red, yellow, and orange cupcake liners, then taping them together, facing each other.

Now let’s do the first part. Take a cupcake liner (red) and fold one side to the middle.

We’re creating a rectangle like that.

Then, fold the other side to form a rectangle with one rounded edge.

Have your child apply some glue and stick the dragon’s head to the body.

Glue on googly eyes or googly eye stickers.

Have your child cut two small horns from yellow cupcake liners or yellow paper and glue them onto the dragon’s head.

Have them cut a strip from red, orange and yellow cupcake liners or paper/tissue paper to light the fire.

Make some accordion folds.

Glue the mouth to look like this Chinese dragon is breathing fire.

Ask children to cut three strips of yellow, orange and red paper and glue them as tails.

Chinese dragons need legs. Ask the child to cut some orange strips, make accordion folds and glue them to the cardboard to form a leg-like body.

Chinese dragons have four legs.

All has been done!

How do you like the dragon your child made?

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