We have just had heaps of fun bringing in one New Year and now we have another excuse to celebrate with Chinese New Year!

We were looking at a cooking magazine trying to get some inspiration for food and realised that it is the Year of the Dragon which of course sparked the children off with the idea of creating their own dragons! We pulled out the construction basket and bits and pieces we had around the place and let them go to it.

We loved the cardboard cylinder with the egg carton spikes down its back. Look out for the flames!

The use of a fan folded body, paper plate tail and cylinder head was also really effective. They taped skewers on both end to make a moving puppet.

When we ran out of cylinders, one enterprising person rolled some firm paper to make an interesting head. With the addition of some sticky foam circles, it looks pretty fearsome!

As we still had heaps of sticky foam pieces the children thought outside the square and created …

quite a …

different looking dragon.

The left over foam shapes didn’t go to waste as there was a big storage box just crying out to be decorated.

Even the littlies could join in happily here.

Happy Chinese New Year!!