DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Egg Carton Dragon Craft

This creative craft makes an adorable and realistic dragon using an egg carton and template.  It's a good craft for children practicing to tie knots and is suitable for a fantasy or mythological creature theme.

Materials:

• egg carton
• red paint and paintbrush,
• wool or string,
• a printer,
• some crayons,
• scissors,
• glue,
• paper for the printer

Instructions:

• Cut six of the egg carton cups out of the egg carton.
• Paint five of them red on the outside; these will make the body of the dragon.
• Paint one of the cups red on the inside and on the outside; this will be the head.
• Use a hole punch to punch two holes in four of the cups that make up the body.  Put the holes on the edge of the cups directly across from each other.
• Punch one hole in the last of the body cups on the edge of the cup.
• Punch one hole in the cup that will be the head, punch the hole in what would be the bottom of the cup.

• Use wool or string to tie together the cups of the egg carton.  Once tied together they should make a long line of egg carton cups; the head should be at one end and the body cup that only has one hole should be at the other end.
• Print out the template, color it if necessary and cut out the pieces.
• Glue the eyes onto the edge of the cup that is the head.
• Glue the tongue onto the inside of the cup that is the head.
• Glue the horns onto what would be the bottom of the cup that is the head so that when you look at the dragon it looks like the horns are on the top of its head.
• Glue the front legs onto the cup right behind the head.
• Glue the wings onto the cup third from the front.
• Glue the back legs onto the cup second from the back.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template 1:   (color)   or   (B&W)