Today, Beanie came back from school with a drawing of a chick coming out of an egg. It was pretty cute and I thought we could do something inspired by it at home.
An hour later and the children were moaning about being bored. Luckily I had an idea!
I am useless at drawing, so when I needed a tutorial to draw a cute dragon, I turned to Pinterest (naturally!).
This tutorial is pretty good, but with younger ones, you will have to break it down and draw along with them, line by line, using a pencil first.
Beanie (5 years 5 months) and Crevette (7 years 7 months) really enjoyed it and it took them less than 5 minutes to complete their sketches.
Beanie:
Crevette:
Once we had drawn out dragons in pencil, we drew over the dragons in black pen and erased all our pencil marks before colouring.
What You Need:
Dragon Template
White paper
Pencil
Black pen
Rubber
Glue
Foam card
Hole punch
brad
What to Do:
Draw the outline of the dragon in pencil.
Draw over the lines you want to keep, in black pen.
Rub all pencil marks once the black pen has dried.
Colour the dragon.
Stick your dragon into foam card.
Cut the silhouette of the dragon.
Place the dragon over a colourful piece of foam card and trace an egg shape, slightly larger than the dragon.
Cut a zigzag line in the middle of the egg.
Hole punch two extremities of the egg (right hand side) as well as the tail of the dragon.
Secure all three parts with a brad.
Tadah!
If you are looking for quick and easy activities to do on a rainy day with your children, why not try our bunny bunting, washi tape cards, toilet paper roll bunnies, reindeer lanterns, cute button card, paper cup dragon, finger painting, bath painting, thumbprint art, heart-themed crafts, an embroidered canvas , a stained-glass picture or even make your own play dough?
Disclosure: Bostik sent us a selection of crafting supplies free of charge as part of the Tots100/Bostik Craft Bloggers’ Club. All photos and opinions are my own.
How adorable is this crafting project! My kids would love to make something like this! 🙂
Thanks Elizabeth! We had a lot of fun and there’s nothing like a quick project… no time to get bored of it!
Oh wow this is so cool would not of thought about this.
Thanks Hannah!
oh how cute is this and what an amazing thing to make so much fun
Oh I love these – how cute! Pickle loves Dragons – we had the Bostik box too and loved all the dragony stuff! Kaz x
What a brilliant idea! Dragon eggs are so much more exciting than chicks.
Thanks Helen!
oh what a cool idea! I used to do drawing tutorials from a book when I was a child and memorized certain animals and it’s always been useful. Angela
Out of interest, do you remember the name of the book? That’s the kind of thing my little ones would love.
Oh gosh that is so cute <3 what a lovely idea and cute dragon! x
I am useless at drawing too so I admire the drawing talent when I see it. Great photos.
Thanks lovely. Those little tutorials online are just brilliant. I wish they’d been around when I was little. I’d probably be much better at drawing!
really love this one!! We have made some like this last year with chicks
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Aww this is so cute!!! Fantastic guide on how to draw a dragon, it makes it look so simple!
It is!
Brilliant, anything with dragons in must be good 🙂
He he!
Your dragon looks lovely and I love the creations that the kids sketched.
Thanks Nayna, they were really pleased with their sketches!
These look like great fun, makes a change from a chick, and my two youngest are dragon crazy!