Kids
Paper craft: Help your child make a fire-blowing dragon
Keep your child entertained today by helping them make a fire-blowing dragon using a cardboard toilet roll.
If your child is obsessed with dragons, he’ll love making this fire-blowing dragon from empty toilet rolls. Recycled toilet rolls offer a wonderful, safe way for you to get creative with your child. Best of all, it’s something you probably have lying around the house already.
Benefits of making crafts
- Builds fine-motor skills
- Enhances hand-eye coordination
- Expands cognitive skills.
- Encourages creativity and play.
- The understanding of how things work, or fit, together
- Number and colour association.
How to make it
You will need:
- Empty toilet rolls
- Mini pom-poms
- Glue stick
- Tissue paper
- Scissors
Method
- Prepare the toilet rolls by getting your child to paint them.
- Glue on the larger pom-poms for eyes and smaller ones for the nostrils.
- Cut long triangular strips of tissue paper for the fire.
- Glue the base of the triangles onto the roll, overlapping as you go, until you have enough tissue paper to make it look like fire.
