Chinese Dancing Dragon - all ages can be involved

[AgentTink]

I thought I would let you all see the dancing dragons that we made this morning with my own little girl who is 2 and half and a 22 month and 17 month old mindee.

We used a dragon template from here http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/pdf...n_template.pdf. I let the children decorate them, and then i stuck them on cardboard. The children them had a go at helping me to concertina the paper to make the movebale body.

Once dry I cut the dragons in half, stuck the concertina body inbetween and attached 2 lolly pop sticks.

We then spent the next 20 minutes dancing around the living room to chinese music whilst making our dragons dance. Lots of fun by all.

[Carol M]

Thats lovely
Carol xx

[Tippy Toes]

That looks great! Sounds like you have lots of fun too.

Will give these a try, thanks for sharing

[flowerpots]

OOOH thanks for that, ive got my diploma assessor coming to observe a creative development activity so will do this.

Thank you for sharing

[justdaz]

How lovely is your picture!

I also did this this with a group of Child Minders and mindees this morning. This afternoon we have looked at our books about the dragon dance and been attempting it. Great fun had by all.

[miffy]

That looks great - thanks for sharing the idea

Miffy xx

[Posy]

Love it! I'm going to do that tomorrow. Can I ask where you found some appropriate Chinese music?