Dragon Boat Festival Craft Ideas

Craft Ideas for Dragon Boat Festival

Make wonderful crafts this "Double Fifth Day" with these step-by-step instructions.

Dragon Boat Stick Puppets

Materials required:

1) Card stock
2) Crayons
3) Ribbon
4) Glue
5) Craft feathers
6) Scissors

Instructions:

1) Using crayons, draw the outline of a large dragon boat on card stock. Draw a pointy tail, bulging eyeballs, wide toothy mouth, and fiery nostrils on the dragon head of the boat.

2) Cut the shape out with heavy scissors. This will be your template. Using this, you can cut similar boat shapes or make boats with different designs.

3) Colour each dragon boat cutout as you like. Fix a curled ribbon to the dragon’s nostrils with glue (to indicate the coming out of smoke from the dragon and thus giving it a fierce look). Crease foil and attach craft feathers to make exciting adornments. Add shiny highlights with glue. Keep aside for sometime to let dry the glue.

4) Decorate a craft stick for each boat puppet. Glue sticks to the backs of your boat. Air-dry the glue.

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Dragon Boat Craft

Materials required:

1) Papers - 2, A4/letter sized.
2) Colorful markers
3) Glue
4) Scissors

Instructions:

1) Construct a boat using one A4 size paper.

2) Draw 2 pairs of dragon heads and tails on the paper. Decorate these with markers.

3. Cut the paper dragon heads and tails. Glue these onto the origami boat.

4. Draw some scale patterns on the body of the dragon boat. Decorate these with markers.

5) Decorate your dragon boat with decorative items such as glitters, stickers and the like. Make sure that you do not make it too heavy to float.

6) Set your Dragon Boat on sail and have fun!

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Fire Cracker Craft

Materials Needed:

1) Toilet Paper Roll - 1.
2) Rubber Bands - 2 -3.
3) Paper
4) Yarn
5) Paint (preferably red)
6) Scissors

Instructions:

1) Paint the toilet paper in red color (or any colour you like). Keep aside to dry.

2) Cut 2 circles (about 3 - 4 inches crosswise) out of the paper. You can paint or color them to match your toilet paper roll. Let dry.

3) Make a small hole in the center of one of your paper circles and pass a piece of yarn, about 6 inch long, through it. See that the long end of the yarn hangs on the decorated side of the paper. Leave about 1 inch of yarn on the side of the circle that is not decorated. Tape down the yarn piece to hold it in place.

4) Using rubber bands, attach the circles to the toilet paper roll. See that the decorated side remains upwards. Line up each circle on each side of the toilet paper roll. Wrap the rubber band around a few times. This will hold the circles in place.

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