Paper Plate Chinese Dragon Craft

If you’re celebrating Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, this Chinese dragon craft paper plate is just the project you can do with your kids. It’s economical, fun, and allows you to be very creative.

Follow our instructions to get the basic idea and let your kids get creative when decorating their own Chinese dragon. This one is especially great for the Year of the Dragon and as an anniversary gift for all those born in the year of the Dragon.

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It’s amazing what you can do with paper plates, from simple flat creations to paper plate masks and even fun little crafts like a Chinese dragon shaped like a dragon. this mess.

How to make Chinese dragon-shaped handmade paper plates

What you need:

• pencil
• drag
• glue
• two sheets of paper
• paint (red and yellow)
• paint brush
• White paper
• colored paper (we used red, orange and yellow)
• tissue paper (optional) – we used red, orange and yellow
• black marker

Step-by-step instructions

Head

Apply glue around the edge of a paper plate.

It is necessary to glue only around the edges and not in the middle so that the dragon can be used as a hand puppet.

Puppet sleeves

Have your child cut the remaining paper plate in half and then glue the two halves to the edge of the first paper plate.

Your child can “freestyle” color the paper plates or can draw a border along the edge of the paper plate as a guide.

We recommend painting this part of the paper plate red, but any other color that matches the Chinese dragon will do.

Let the paint dry a bit. Once dry, have your child paint the outer edge with yellow or yellow paint.

Once the paint dries, flip the sheet over and paint the other side with red paint.

Wait for the paint to dry.

Once dry, fold the paper in half (with the side with the painted edge on the outside).

Have your child cut a zig-zag line around the paper plate.

Tongue

Cut a large piece of red paper in the shape of a tongue.

Have your child apply a little glue on the back part (the red side).

Stick the tongue where the paper folds.

Eyes

To create the eyes, have your child cut two half-circles from orange paper. Each form must be rounded at one end and straight at the other.

Have them make folds at the bottom (the bottom is where the straight ends are).

The dragon needs eyeballs, so have your child cut out two smaller white circles and glue them to the orange eyes.

Using a black marker, have your child draw a dot on each eyeball.

The eyes are ready to be glued to this Chinese dragon paper soon.

Nose

Have your child use a pencil to draw a nose on yellow paper and then cut it into a shape.

Draw two nostrils with a black marker.

Then stick the nose onto the dragon’s head.

Eyes and nose must be straight. It’s going well.

Eyelash

Have your child decorate their eyes with different colored strips of paper or tissue paper. We used yellow, red and orange but children can choose colors as they see fit.

Have them add some strips of colored paper to the dragon’s tongue, making it look like the dragon is breathing fire.

Children can now reach into the slots between the paper plates to operate the dragon’s mouth, allowing them to open and close the dragon’s mouth.

What a great idea to celebrate Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year, right?

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