These paper plate dragon puppets are simple to make and lots of fun to play with. Toddlers and preschoolers will love celebrating Chinese New Year with their very own puppet. We used a simple painting technique and had fun bending and twisting our dragon to make him dance.
Take a look at our other Chinese New Year crafts. Toddlers and preschoolers will love making our egg carton dragon puppet and our chinese dragon puppet (with template) is perfect for those that would prefer a template to get started with.
We also have printables to make paper lanterns and a Chinese dragon mask.
Fold your strip of red card backwards and forwards to create a zig zag. Add googly eyes and a mouth to your dragons head.
Paper Plate Dragon Puppet
Dragon puppet supplies:
- A paper plate
- A zip lock freezer bag
- Poster paint (gold and red)
- A strip of red card (we used an A4 piece of card cut in half and taped together)
- 2 lollipop sticks
- 2 googly eyes
How to make a paper plate dragon puppet:
How to make a paper plate dragon puppet:
For this dragon craft you will need a red paper plate. You could buy a red paper plate, but where is the fun in that! We had much more fun painting our paper plate in a freezer bag.
To paint your paper plate in a freezer bag squirt red and gold paint onto a paper plate and then place it inside a freezer bag. Use your fingers to spread the paint across the paper plate and then take the plate out of the bag and leave it to dry.
Once dry fold your paper plate in half. Draw a line splitting the paper plate in two (as shown in the image below).
The larger part will become the head, the smaller part the tail. (I also drew a couple of small triangles on the side of the head.)
Cut along the line you have drawn.
Glue the head to one end of your red strip and the tail to the other. Then glue the lollipop sticks to the bottom of the paper strip.
That's is! You're paper plate dragon is now complete! Have fun playing with your paper plate dragon puppet and making him dance around.
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