Fire Breathing Dragons

               
                              Happy Lunar New Year! 

We made fire breathing dragons at the craft table this morning.  I saw a
similar idea at My Mundane & Miraculous Life but changed it a bit.
  
           Start with a paper cup and poke a hole in the bottom. 
                  Cut the crepe streamers to a length you like.
  
Glue the streamers to the open end of the cup, insert a straw into the
                                        small hole, then blow.
                  
         We used a variety of materials to decorate the dragons.
           
         Like buttons, stickers, metal bottle caps, and foam pieces.
             
We made them breathe fire and discovered it’s hard to ‘roar’ and
                              breathe fire at the same time.

   
                   We also practiced painting Chinese characters.
       
And enjoyed fortune cookies at snack.  Both ideas were more ways to
            share the idea that marks on paper have meaning.

Dragon Play

A new provocation I set up last week to spark interest in dragons as we lead up to Lunar New Year.
           
A Dragon Story - told by E, age 4
              
             The princess is going to be trapped by the dragon.
              
    Up to the tower with some poisonous stuff that will kill the princess.
                     
                    The hero dragon came to stop the dragon.
                    
                                He can breathe fire.
                       
The hero dragon flew up.  He gave another special type to make her eat and the princess woke up.

Many other stories have been read and played out.
                

               
Or just nibbled on.
               

Chinese New Year

Welcome to a couple activities that were available today

to celebrate Chinese New Year.

 We had tea with fortune cookies.

The fortune cookies are made from felt circles with a pipe cleaner

glued inside so they can bend.

 

It was fun to watch the children play with chop sticks.

One little boy came dressed in his finery.

It is beautiful.

At the art table there were materials to make dragon puppets.

Red cups and plates, googly eyes, wooden dowels and crepe streamers.

The children's dragons were creative and unique to themselves.

 It looks like chaos,

 but was very producive

 and cooperative.

Here are a few finished dragons.

 

 

 

 

I was quick to snap a picture as this little one was leaving

making her dragon puppet fly.