Children's DIY: a cardboard dragon
A complete craft: tracing, cutting, gluing and painting, culminating in an articulated toy.
Winged dragon, lizard or snake, it's up to you...
 
Materials : 
  
-  cardboard rolls (paper towels or toilet paper)
 
-  brads
 
-  children's paint
 
-  sheets of thick coloured paper for the legs and wings (unless you want to paint them too)
 
 
 | 
 
 | 
 
 
Production stages : 
  | 
Printthe patterns. | 
They have been reduced to 25%, so you can print them full-page and leave them to the graphics software, or resize them to +400% before printing. 
  Tail (top) and head (bottom |  
  | 
) | 


Dragon body 
 | 
 
  | 
Cut outthe drawings for each pattern. Transfer the patterns to the cardboard rolls: trace the head once, the tail once and the body 5 to 7 | 
times.| Cut out with scissors. | 
 
  | 
Cutwings and legs from the sheet(s) of thick paper. | 
| Mark the folds on the wings with a ruler. | 
 
  | 
Paintthe head, body and tail: we've chosen 2 colors to distinguish back and belly. | 
 
  | 
Punchthe holes (4 per body block, but only 2 for the head) with a spade-shaped screwdriver, or with a hole punch, placing the cardboard block to be punched in the corner of a table, for example | 
.
 
  | 
Assemblethe head, body parts and tail using brads, always overlapping in the same direction. | 
 
  | 
 Glue onthe legs and wings. Then draw two eyes, naughty or nice, | 
as you wish...
 
 
 
 if ($GLOBALS["_Administrateur"]) { ?>
 } ?>