A cute, colorful craft that your students will love to create for new year celebrations!

In this easy and inexpensive craft, students create a dragon's head from construction paper, and then add a body made from paper loops.

What You Need

• Construction paper in various colors
• Googly eyes
• Craft feathers
• Glue
• Stapler

What You Do

• Cut 10 strips of paper, each measuring 1x11 inches
• Staple two ends of a strip together to form a loop. Then, insert one end of another strip through the loop and staple the ends of that strip to create a chain. Link all ten strips.
• Cut a large oval shape. Fold it in half. This will be the dragon’s head.
• Cut a small strip of red paper to be used as the dragon's tongue. Glue this strip inside the dragon’s head.
• Cut 6 to 10 small white triangles for teeth. Glue the teeth inside the mouth so that the pointed end hangs out.
• Cut two white circles about the size of a quarter for the eyes. Cut two smaller black circles to glue on top of the white circles for eyes.
• Glue the eyes on the outer side of head.
• Finish your dragon by adding feathers to the head and links.