Lesson Plan: Chinese Dragon Puppet. Submitted by: Ann Henderson, Isle of Wight. UNIT: Art of China - Chinese New Year - Puppets. Lesson Plan: Paper Dragon Puppet. Grade Level: Elementary (See Middle School)Variation from Sandra Summers- Barrick . Students who finish early may try other paper puppets. Head. Spring body.
Tail (Click to see larger images)Procedures: On card, draw two heads and two tails, mirror image. Tracing Paper can be used to draw the mirror image. Many images of Chinese Dragons can be found online for inspiration (Do a Google image search). Size of heads will be determined by the size of body you choose to make. Cut out and colour in.
Just make the strips 3. Stack up several sheets and cut many 4. Kids could even decorate the strips a head of time with all sorts of experimental painting/stamping/printing techniques. Place two ends of at right angles- held together with glue or tape (or staple), so that one end (A) is up and the other length (B) is to the right. Form a paper spring by folding A vertically down. Fold A vertically up, then B horizontally across to the left. The long strips of paper are concertina into a spring and each end is attached to the dragon.
One end to the head part and the other to the tail. You can even make your own sticks! Roll up some paper into a thin tube and glue the seam. Glue or tape or staple one end of the spring to the body end of the head. Fasten the other end to the body end of the tail. Glue the second head and tail to the first so that the end of the sticks and paper spring is sandwiched.
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The puppet can then be embellished with sequins etc. Have some fun creating an Imperial Dragon and add legs that stick out 3- D with five talons/toe. Maybe even attach the legs with brass brads so they move. NOTE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL: Make some Giant Yard Art Dragons! Use political sign wire holders for support. My sixth graders LOVED working in group projects to make yard art. They always had a take home project, too.
This dramatic Chinese dragon template could be useful for crafts, colouring - or even a writing project.
Maybe the take home project could be Chinese inspired relief prints? Diagrams: Head images and tail images should be mirror images. Student could plan on scrap paper, then cut their best out and trace as a pattern. Chinese Dragons - from Randy Menninghaus: In Chinese mythology there are Nine Major types of dragon: Horned Dragon (lung) most powerful generalized type of Chinese dragon, which can produce rain and is totally deaf.
Winged Dragon. Celestial Dragon (which supports and protects the mansions of the gods)Spiritual Dragon (generates wind and rain for the benefit of mankind)Dragon of Hidden Treasures (which keeps guard over concealed wealth)The Coiling Dragon (which lives in water)The Yellow Dragon (which once emerged from water and presented the legendary Emperor Fu Shi with the elements of writing)Homeless Dragon (Ii) that lives in the ocean and another type (chiao) that is scale- covered and usually inhabits marshes but also keeps dens in the mountains. Dragon King, which actually consists of four separate dragons, each of which rules over one of the four seas, those of the east, south, west, and north. How can you adapt this dragon puppet lesson to teach a little Chinese Mythology? There is also the Imperial Dragon. Dragon Puppet Variation from Sandra Summers- Barrick, Cincinnati, Ohio This is similar to the process I learned at the Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art in KC 2.
The only difference, with most classes we would tour the section of the museum that related to our work. We also used onion skin paper, or what was once called onion skin, its very close to vellum for all the younger teachers out there.
I like the transparency of the medium. Over the years I changed and added a few elements. For heads and tails I used tag board (a little lighter than poster board). And where they show the poles to hold the puppet, we use to cut up discarded or unused parts of Mat board.
Then the kids would glue the two ends of the dragons body. Staple the head and tail. Oh yes, we scored and cut the scales in the face with a knife and then popped out part (like opening a shutter) so that more light would go through and it looked like scales - - much more texture that way. We also added feet with tag board - - and the legs and tail and head would have brads so they could be posed in different situations. Also add triangles to the top of the dragons back, and streamer paper to have fire, this also looks nice with crinkle crepe paper. After we made the project, I would have a lamp set up for the kids to use the puppets as shadow puppets. Of course it was a puppet unit.
You can relate Javanese puppets well with Chinese dragons and Japanese Bunraku (theatre). Ideas for Chinese New Year From Kristen Puhl - Student Teacher - !
There is a how to online. The site gives you patterns - but it would be so much more fun for the kids to make their own monkeys. Puppets are big in China.
There are many ideas out there that you can do with simple materials - that won't take much time. Chinese New Year - Year of the Rooster - From Jill Day, in Colorado My kindergartners are beginning a rooster painting/collage. The newspaper cam from a Chinese grocery store. Click image for larger view.
See Power. Point of images Jill used. Go to Chinese Paintings. Enter rooster in site search. Year of the Rooster from Cathy Gaul. I taught the second graders how to draw and then paint a rooster for a spur- of- the- moment art class. We have been playing doodle- drawing from a new book that was donated to the 'free art' section of the art book shelf from time to time and they were having a lot of fun with it.
First we talked about what the year was predicted to be like, and the personality of someone born in the year of the Rooster, and what people did for Chinese New Year. I found a rooster graphic on a Chinese New Year website and the Chinese characters for 'Year of the Rooster'. We drew it together with them following me, bit by bit, building the drawing with shapes they all knew how to make.
We practiced once and I gave them big paper to draw it again as big as possible. I had been given some of those paint squeezable marker things by the PTO after a function. I would have never purchased them, I would rather the kids learn how to use a brush. But they were perfect for our fun rooster and the colors were vivid. They enjoyed trying out the new paint markers and made borders around the rooster with all the colors making dots and squiggles. Looked like a bingo game was about to break out to me!
It was a fun time and they all were making rooster sounds after awhile. Submitted by: Diane Purdie. Chinese New Year: Watercolour Dragons. Grades: Level 2- 8.
Objectives: Watercolour painting techniques using Chinese dragons as motivation. Materials: Photocopy paper. Drawing Pencils, sharpeners, Kneaded Rubber Erasers.
Black Permanent Markers. Blue Colored Pencils. Watercolor Paper (8 x 1. Prang Watercolor Pan Sets. Small Watercolour Brushes.
Palettes and water pots. Sharpie Fine Point Markers. Salt. Resources: Images of dragons. Chinese New Year stories.
Chinese Calendar. You can have hanging Chinese Paper Dragon Decorations around your room during the lesson. Vocabulary (optional): contrast in colour; complementary and analogous colours. Wet on wet. Wash. Motivation/Instruction: After reading stories about Chinese New Years and various traditions as well as showing a variety of dragon paintings, the children were instructed to create their own dragons, which will be transformed into watercolour paintings. Procedures: Kids draw dragons with regular pencil on photocopy paper. The decide which lines they like best and outline them with black magic marker.
Using the window as a light board, drawings are transferred to watercolour paper with blue pencil (which will not show up as much after they are painted). Ideally, erasable blue pencils are used, but yellow or blue water watercolour pencils work as well. The details of the dragon are painted in, although it would be best if the backgrounds are painted first. I've found the kids impatient to get to work on the .
Dropping in analogous colour and applying salt to lend a sparkly effect were great favourites. Using reds and yellows to create breathing fire was also an exciting step at this point. Last and final step, if the initial dragon has gotten ? Has the complete page been well used? Are there any unexplained white or left out areas?
Adaptations (optional)Foreshortening of wings, legs and claws with older kids.