The YEAR of the DRAGON
In my daughter’s class there are two wonderful girls whose mother was born in Taiwan. Shortly before the New Year they had drawn an enormous dragon and had told the class about the Dragon rituals celebrating the Chinese New Year. All the kids were very impressed, and I had some difficulty explaining why each year for us is just a couple of numbers while in Asia it is called The Year of the Dragon… guess which one was more interesting 🙂
- Paper dragon template
1. DANCING DRAGON
Print out the dragon template. Color it and glue on another colored sheet to make it sturdier. Fold an A4 sheet of paper lengthwise and fold it into an accordion. Attach the two parts of the dragon to the folded paper and add two wooden skewers for handles.
Lots of thanks to Stassi Stoyanova and her son Eric for sending us this photo.
2. FLYING DRAGONS
They were sent to us by Oksana Danailova, the winner from our last competition. Besides decorating the room, these dragons can serve as party invitations – just write the day and the hour of the celebration.
3. HOW TO DRAW A DRAGON?
Outline your kid’s hand as shown, then decorate.
European dragon, Chinese dragon… did you spot the main differences? Not too bad for the less dragon-savvy moms :)))
3. Dragon Coloring Pages
Scroll down to view all documents. Click on an image to enlarge and print.
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You have some fantastic ideas. I would love to share your website with some preschools here in Sydney to get some craft ideas and in particular your Chinese New Year Dragon and template. Would you mind if I used one of your photos and the template as long as I listed your website to link back to? Thank you in advance, Kind regards, Kristy.
Hey Kristy
Thanks for interest in our content. Basically we share content with other sites under CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US). So it’s perfectly fine to use anything if it is for non-commercial purposes and has link to original content.
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Danu Tzankova
http://krokotak.com
That is wonderful. Thank you so much for your help!
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