Fire Breathing Chinese Dragon Craft

Lunar New Year is approaching and we have the ultimate craft tutorials available for you and your kids to make the celebration even more special. This fire-breathing Chinese Dragon craft is perfect to make in the classroom or at home because it looks beautiful displayed on the wall (or refrigerator).

Imagine a classroom filled with these fun moon dragon crafts! We have a handy template that will make this even easier; However, you can also let your children draw their own to turn this into an art project.

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This is a great craft idea for Chinese New Year because it’s so colorful and because the Moon dragons look so cool.

How to make fire breathing crafts from Chinese dragons

What you need:

our printable template (optional) or hand-drawn dragon head
white printing paper
cardstock paper in any color of your choice (we love how black paper looks with this craft)
drag
glue

Step-by-step instructions

Are you ready for the joys of Lunar New Year? Grab a sheet of cardboard, print out our template and let the kids add their own colors to the Chinese dragon if you choose the black and white version.

If your child is using black and white printouts, have them color them first.

Cut off the head of the Chinese dragon.

Then, mark the dragon’s mouth with a pencil. This will make the next steps easier.

Have children apply glue to the marked position.

Glue the colored strips to the cardboard.

Glue all of them. We used 6 orange colors and 2 yellow colors. If you are working with older children, you can ask them to use more strips of paper.

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