Craft For Kids. How To Make A Chinese Dragon Puppet {Tutorial}

To celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year, which is the year of the dragon I will be making dragon puppets with the children at art club today. This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a relativity easy but effective looking puppet.
You will need:
2 x toilet roll tubes
scissors, glue & tape
black and white card
paper (various colours)
green paint
green and yellow tissue paper
sequins/ jewels / ribbon for decoration (optional)
2 x chop sticks or wooden kebab skewers

First cut the tissue rolls, one with two openings either side for the mouth and one into a point for the tail. (Shown above) Paint green or red inside and out and put somewhere to dry. To make the eyes, nose, chin and teeth, cut the shapes out of card and attach with glue. You can then decorate the head with sequins, jewels, ribbon and other pretty bits!

The tail can also be decorated with card and anything else that you might want to add!

To make the body you will need a long rectangle piece of tissue paper (I have used green) and two smaller strips of another colour tissue paper, glue the two smaller strips onto the edges of the green piece.

 The body can then be glued onto the head and tail, finally attach your sticks, pierce the head and tail underneath and slide the sticks inside the tubes, attach with tape to hold in place, the sticks can then be used to control the puppet.
We had great fun making these at art club today and they all looked fantastic!