Build a Dragon With 5 Years Olds!

Using tomato baskets, pipe cleaners, PVC, and paper machie create a 12 foot dragon to hang in your living room!

Lay out your dragon pieces, wire tying the tomato baskets to make the body. Tye pipe cleaners to the open spots in the tomato baskets so the paper machie with have some structure to it. and something to hold on to.

Cover the body of the dragon with a layer of newspaper paper machie and a layer of white paper machie. Then paint it with a coat of latex house paint to give it a hard skin. Otherwise you tend to put your fingers through your creation!

PVC Pipe, 30 degree angle joints, see through curtin material glued to the pvc pipe gives your dragon gossimer wings!

We used sponges to give that scaley look to our dragon. We couldn't decide on one color so he bacame a purple and green dragon

This project was done over a 6 month period. (The only way of keep 20 five year olds interested is to do a little, leave it alone do a little leave it alone!) Kinda a zen philosophy of art and teaching. Taking the time and way of water, a lot can be accomplished

Hanging the dragon also keeps the project in the back of everybodies mind. Thinking about how to make it better. What could we add to make it better?

The head was made by gluing pieces of styrofoam together and then painted. The horns are just rolled newspaper and paper machied

Arms and legs are styrofoam glued together for shape and painted

The tail is Dryer vent hose covered with paper machie and twisted into a shape that gives the illusion of the dragon slithering through the sky

Hang your dragon in a large picture window. Or enter him into a county fair or art contest So that the 20 five year old artists will have a great memory of their first step in their academic careers!