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How to Make a Wooden Spoon Dragon Puppet

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Level
Beginner
Time
1 hour
Budget
10 - 30

Celebrate St George’s Day with this bright, fun kids’ craft. Embrace this patriotic occasion with a project that children will love to make – and they’ll enjoy playing with it even more!

Using a variety of craft staples like pipe cleaners, pom poms and paints, you'll love bringing this wooden spoon dragon puppet to life. Follow along with our instructions and tell the tale of this patron saint.

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How to make

You Will Need

* Wooden Spoon

* Green Foam Sheet (A4 x2 or A3 x1)

* Tissue Paper - Red, Orange and Yellow

* 12 Green Pipe Cleaners

* 2 Medium Green Pom Poms

* 2 Smaller Green Pom Poms

* 2 Googly Eyes

* Green Paint

* Paintbrush

* Hot Glue Gun

* Scissors

* Pen/Pencil

* Wing Template - Downloaded and Printed

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Step 1

To start, cover your workspace then paint the wooden spoon green.

 

Tip: Paint the end of the spoon and leave to dry in a cup. When that end is dry, paint the other end and turn the spoon the other way in the cup to dry.

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Step 2
While you wait for the spoon to dry, you can prepare the other parts for the dragon. Print out the wing template and cut it out. Draw round this shape twice onto the green foam sheet and cut out both wings.
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Step 3
Cut a strip off the end of the foam sheet about 2.5cm wide and cut this into triangles by making diagonal cuts across the strip.
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Step 4

Next, take two pipe cleaners and twist them at one end to attach them - making one double length pipe cleaner. Repeat this to make a total of three double length pipe cleaners.

 

Then, braid these three together into a plait.

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Step 5
Take two green foam triangles and glue together, sandwiching the end of the plait inside to form a spiked tail.
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Step 6
Once the paint is fully dry, draw around the spoon end onto the green foam and cut out this shape.
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Step 7

Next, take the tissue paper and lay this out one colour on top of another.

 

Fold in half and twist the folded end so that it stays together, you can then cut the open ends into the shape of flames.

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Step 8
Attach the tissue paper flames to the curved part of your spoon, this is the inside of the dragon's mouth.
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Step 9
Take the spoon shaped piece of foam and attach it over the flames to make the bottom of the dragon's mouth.
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Step 10
Now attach your large pom poms as pictured to form the base of the eyes. Attach the two smaller pom poms to make the nostrils, towards the flame end of the spoon.
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Step 11
Attach the googly eyes to the large pom poms.
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Step 12
Position the wings at the start of the spoon handle and secure them with hot glue.
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Step 13
To make the dragons arms, bend a pipe cleaner in half and wind it equally round the neck of the dragon (in between the head and wings) shape the ends of the pipe cleaner into claws.
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Step 14
To add the wing detail, take the remaining pipe cleaners and shape them round the wings as pictured. Once you're happy with the positioning, stick them down using hot glue.
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Step 15
Next, position the longer pipe cleaner plait (the end that doesn't have the spikes) on the head of the dragon just after the eyes. Start twisting it around the spoon handle once you're past the wings, leaving the last part of the pipe cleaner to form the long tail. Once you're happy with the positioning, secure the top part to the dragon's head, using extra pipe cleaners where needed to make it extra secure.
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Step 16
Working along the plaited pipe cleaner body and all the way down the dragon's tail, attach the foam triangles using hot glue.
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Step 17
Your dragon puppet is now complete and ready to be used to tell the tale of St George.
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Rated 3 out of 5 by from Great but not easy Great work but not all that easy for a child. The glueing and making of flames and legs appeared to be too difficult for a 6-year-old.and we needed a lot more than 3 pipe cleaners I think we used about 10 in total.
Date published: 2024-03-05
Rated 2 out of 5 by from Difficult The list of items needed to make this was incomplete, and it appeared to be too difficult. So completely put off from even trying this.
Date published: 2023-04-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by from St George What a great idea, not expensive and something for the kids to enjoy doing over the holidays
Date published: 2023-04-08
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great fun to make! Super clear instructions and a really fun project to make with my dragon obsessed niece.
Date published: 2023-04-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Easy to follow and cheap to make We love dragons in our house, fantastic fun activity for the holidays, thank you!
Date published: 2023-04-07
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