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Magic Dragon Mask
Make this wonderful, whimsical mask to act out your enchanting stories or use during your school's morning closed-circuit newscast along with this PA Skit (RTF).

Here's what you need:

  • Two plastic gallon jugs and jug caps
  • Felt — green, yellow, red
  • Paint — white, green, black
  • Cotton balls
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Garbage bag twist ties

Here's what you do:

  • Cut the tops off of two milk jugs.
  • Next, cut one milk jug in half; cut two nostrils, ears, and top of dragon's head out of other milk jug.
  • Cut green felt into dragon scale shapes.
  • Cover top of dragon's head with yellow felt.
  • Cover nostrils and ears with green felt.
  • Glue some yellow felt to middle of ears.
  • Paint white along jagged part of milk jug to make teeth.
  • Using craft glue or spray glue, attach scales to top and bottom of milk jugs.
  • Glue top part of head, ears, and nostrils to head.
  • Paint tops of milk jugs green. Paint the jug caps black and then glue to head.
  • Glue cotton to nostrils and insert different colored pipe cleaners into nostrils for fire.
  • Hinge top and bottom part of jaw together with garbage bag twist ties.
  • Cut a tongue out of red felt and glue inside lover half of jaw.

 

 

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Dragon Coloring Page (PDF)
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