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By The Kids’ Table

FIRE-BREATHING DRAGONS

INGREDIENTS • Onepapercup • Colouredcardorpaper • Tissue paper –ideally in ‘fire’ colours: yellow, red, orange, blue • Wiggly eyes, eye stickers or a white address label • Craftpompoms(notessential) • Gluestickorgluedots • Scissors

METHOD 1. Cut the base out of your paper cup. 2. For the spikes: a. Cut a strip of card about 2cm wide and little shorter than the length of the cup. b. Cut out small triangles from the strip (the points of your cuts shouldn’t go further than halfway into the width) to form spikes to run down the dragon’s back. c. Fold in half lengthways and glue along the top centre of your cup 3. For the eyes: a. Use your wiggly eyes or eye stickers – or make your own by cutting circles out of a white address label and drawing on the pupils with black felt tip. b. Glue each one on to a small pompom. c. If you don’t have pompoms, cut two small rectangles of coloured card (about 1.5cm tall x 1cm wide) and cut them into a rounded shape at the top. Stick your eyes on to the rounded part at the top, fold in half under the eyes and glue on to the top of the cup, near the base 4. For the nostrils: a. Stick two pompoms on the top, evenly spaced apart at the mouth end of the cup. If you don’t have pompoms, make them from card the same way you made the eyes in No.4 5. For the flames: a. Cut strips of tissue paper for the flames – roughly 1cm wide x 15cm long. Make them long enough to fill the inside

edge of the mouth of the cup. b. Glue the strips next to each other all the way round the inside of the mouth of the cup 6. Decorate your dragon any way you like – you could add scales with felt

tips or stick on tissue paper patterns. 7. Place your mouth at the base end of the cup and blow to make your dragon breathe fire!