Make this cool Chinese New Year Dragon Craft. Just Download the Free Chinese Dragon Printable for this fun craft.
Check out this cute and easy Chinese New Year Dragon Craft. Just color, cut, and tape and you can have a Chinese Dragon Puppet.
It’s such a great Chinese New Year activity for preschool, elementary classrooms, or crafts at home.
Get the Free Chinese New Year Dragon Printable below and you will be able to make enough supplies for a group of 20 kids (or more!) with only about 10 minutes of cutting.
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Here’s What You Need
Here’s your Chinese Dragon craft supply list (This post contains affiliate links to the products mentioned. Read my disclosure policy for more information):
- Free Chinese New Year Dragon Printable <— Get it Here
- colored copy paper, colored cardstock, or construction paper
- crayons or markers to color your dragon
- scissors
- tape or glue sticks
- popsicle sticks (chopsticks or straws work too)
Did you know that in Chinese culture, dragons are majestic creatures that represents prosperity and good luck? Read more at wikipedia.org
Watch the Chinese Dragon Craft video for step-by-step instructions.
Make this Chinese New Year craft while reading these Fun Books:
Step 1: Download and Print the Free Dragon Puppet Template
Download the Free Chinese New Year Dragon Printable and print out as many as you need. The PDF also comes with a coloring page of the dragon.
Step 2: Cut out Strips of Paper
After you print the PDF, the only thing you need to prep ahead of time for this craft is cutting out red strips of paper (Yellow paper would work too).
Cut out red strips of paper about 2-3 inches wide. You can get several strips from one piece of construction paper. This will be the dragon’s body.
Then, just gather your supplies and you’re ready to make your paper dragon puppets.
Step 4: How to Assemble
I recommend having a dragon that is already put together so the children can see what the final version will look like.
- Color your Dragon head and tail.
- Cut out your dragon’s head and tail (it doesn’t have to be perfect).
- Fold the red strip of paper into an accordion shape. Flip the paper back and forth as you fold.
- Tape the dragon’s head to one side of the accordion paper and the tail to the other side
- Optional: Color a popsicle stick with a crayon.
- Flip your dragon over and tape the popsicle sticks near the head and the tail (make sure you’re taping them to the back).
- Don’t forget to put your name on the back.
Step 1: Color your Dragon head and tail.
Step 2: Cut out your dragon’s head and tail (it doesn’t have to be perfect).
Step 3: Fold the red strip of paper into an accordion shape. Flip the paper back and forth as you fold (this will make the accordion fold)
Step 4: Tape the dragon’s head to one side of the accordion paper and the tail to the other side.
Optional: Color a popsicle stick with a crayon.
Step 6: Flip your dragon over and tape the popsicle sticks near the head and the tail (make sure you’re taping them to the back)
And you’re finished with your gorgeous Chinese dragon craft.
This is a great Chinese New Year craft. And it’s easy enough for preschool classroom, kindergarten, elementary classrooms, Scouts or just a fun craft at home idea.
More New Year Crafts
If you liked this craft, check out some of my other Chinese New Year Crafts for kids:
As always, I try to make my crafts fast, easy & inexpensive. Enjoy.