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15+ DIYS on How to Make a Dragon Puppet
Dragon puppets are an entertainment tool that gives your kids pure happiness. There are some over the top or big dragon puppets for garden and backyards, while some are small puppets for indoors. You can play, enact, or allow your kids to show their creativity with such things.
1. Colorful Small Dragon Puppet
The dragon is made of red, yellow, blue, and orange crepe paper and paper straws for holding. This is fascinating and does not take much time because the tutorial shows that it uses dragon puppet printables.
As Chinese dragons are known to be a riot of colors, why would you make a difference? Use crepe foam, and make the eyes prominent with wiggle eyes. As far as the holder is concerned, the popsicle sticks would be fine.
Sock puppet is a traditional thing and this is trendy enough especially if you are interested in stitching. This green sock puppet is decorated with commercially available puppet eyes, felt papers, and pom poms.
The body of the dragon, especially the belly can be elongated. Extremely light, you can make such dragons in any color of your choice.
The tutorial is the same as the above but the color of the dragon is changed.
5. How to Make a Ruthless Chinese Dragon Puppet
This looks an elaborate task, but it is not in reality. Even children above the age of five or six can try this with a little help from their teachers or parents.
6. Dragon Puppet with Blinking Eyes
The large dragon with two big eyes with a blinking style looks creative. The video tutorial for wearable dragon is convenient for all to understand.
7. Tutorial for Paper Bag Dragon Puppet
To utilize your existing items at home, like paper bags, you can give this tutorial a try. The paper bag is colored and painted and then transformed into a dragon puppet.
8. Red Sock Dragon: Step-by-step Instruction
This is again a sock dragon tutorial, but the design is different. This is a no-sew sock puppet and all you need is have a sock and fabric foam.
Crocheting a dragon is fun when the result is so beautiful. Here two types of green yarns are used.
Paper plates are usually common to find in a house, so you can easily use them along with egg cartons and feathers to make Chinese cute dragon puppets.
11. Flying Pink Dragon Puppets for Kids
If you are fascinated with the concept of dragon, and you can try this one. The bat-like wings of the dragon is an art of construction paper.
This tiny finger puppet with a figure of three-headed dragon is as sweet as possible. It is made of felt paper but the eye brow and other things can be done with sharpies.
13. Flying Marionette Dragon Puppet for Kids
The marionette puppet is light, and it suspends from pieces of cardboard. This is extremely light.
14. Chinese Cup Dragon for Party
If you have some unused cups at home, you can use them to make a cute dragon puppet like this one.
Egg cartons are always handy so you can teach children how to make a dragon puppet with them. Coloring them will depend on the look of the dragon. If it is a friendly one, then green, pink or blue will be fine. If the dragon is not so jovial, rather angry and ferocious then red or orange is the best choice.
Dragon puppets are nice crafts that will engage you and your children. When it comes to the puppet, it is extraordinary as you can enact anything with it.
Published on June 10th 2020 by Suzanne Kane
