Have you seen our paper plate dragons? My preschooler is currently on a dragon kick and we've been reading dragon books, watching dragon movies, and making dragon crafts... of course! If you have a dragon lover at home, then you'll love this craft too. I've even included a template so that you can easily make these paper plate dragons with your little ones too! Let's get making! Make these Colorful and fun paper plate dragons! This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! In case you've got a dragon lover at home.... here are our current favorite dragon books: 10+ Fun Dragon Picture Books + Easy Reads Tell Me a Dragon Have you Seen my Dragon Julia's House for Lost Creatures Dragon Loves Tacos Dragon Was Terrible A Friend For Dragon Me and My Dragon The Knight and the Dragon Not Your Typical Dragon There's No Such Thing as a Dragon Jane and the Dragon We've also been watching the How to Train Your Dragon movies and series on Netflix. (Looking over the craft now, I think that series inspired the design of these dragons!) Alright, let's make ourselves a paper plate dragon! (Psst- Don't have paper plates? You can still make a cute paper dragon. Find the directions and FREE printable here.) First I folded the plate in half and traced the body. (You can make your own design, or just use my dragon template !) Then, I cut out the head and tail pieces from the excess material. We also folded down our wings. Then, I slid the head and tail pieces between our body pieces and stapled everything together. Then, we went wild and used our favorite paints and Sharpie Markers to decorate our dragons! Here's the one that I made.... and here's the rainbow one that my son painted! More Dragon Crafts.... And if you're looking for more dragon crafts, check out the links below! Dancing Chinese New Year Dragon Puppet Two Chinese New Year Dragon Crafts Make and Ride a Hockey Stick Dragon Toy Let's keep in Contact! You can always find more fun ideas on my Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of the screen. Happy making, friends!
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Create a magical dragon from one paper plate. Inspired by the brand new series, Dragons: Race to the Edge, by the creators of "How to Train Your Dragon," due to be released on Netflix soon, the kids and I created our very own dragon puppets! Using a single paper plate as the base, decorate your dragon with paper collage, paint, fabric scraps or whatever takes your fancy. Materials for basic dragon: Paper plate Scissors Pen Stapler/tape Materials for decorating (optional): Paint Fabric/paper scraps Googly-eyes Craft stick (for a puppet handle) Step 1: Cut your paper plate as shown above. First cut it in half. Cut one half in half again (to make 2 quarters) and then cut one of the quarters in half again (to make 2 eighths). Step 2: Cut the rim of the plate off the quarter plate piece. Step 3: Cut little triangles off the plate rim piece to make the tail and draw a dragon head on the remaining piece. Step 4: Cut out your dragon head and give some shape to the two other small plate pieces (the eighths) for the wings. Your dragon is now ready to decorate and ensemble. Step 5: (optional) Decorate! We decorated our dragons with my favourite fluro tempera paint disks and some metallic easy wash paint. Step 6: When dry and ready, staple (or stick) the pieces of your dragon together. For finishing touches you can go over the dragon's face with a black marker and add googly-eyes. (Everything is adorable with googly-eyes). We also added craft sticks to the bottom to turn ours into puppets. Now you're ready to play! Crafts can be a great extension of an activity to encourage interest and understanding in a topic whilst allowing for creativity and other practical motor skills. We use things like puppets for role-play and find they are wonderful for working on language and other speech skills. More paper plate crafts and activities: 20 paper plate animal crafts Paper plate dinosaur craft Paper plate penguin craft Use paper plates in a travel activity pack Get arty with some paper plate painting Make a paper plate bag Explore emotions with paper plate faces Set up a pretend play pizza shop with paper plates Happy playing, Debs :) Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
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