Chinese new year dragon bulletin board

Allie Apels on Instagram: "💛🧧Collaborative Lunar New Year Dragon🧧 💛 We’ve been exploring the traditions and celebrations that take place during Lunar New Year. We read a number of books and watched some videos. The children were especially interested in watching videos of the dragon dances, so we decided to make a collaborative paper plate dragon. Each student in my am and pm class painted half of a paper plate. Then they decorated their plate piece with stickers, pom poms, feathers…

Chinese New Year Dragon made from cardboard boxes, bulletin board borders, styrofoam, craft paper, paper towel roll, spray paint, and suspenders

Kindergarten and First Grade Pattern Review This is a quick project that I do every few years. After working with Kindergarten and First grade students on patterns, it's a fun review and practice. Draw out a very large dragon on bulletin paper. Cut up paper plates into 4 sections. Give each student a section and have them use markers or crayons to create a pattern on the paper plate section. These will become the scales of the dragon. As students finish hot glue (fastest and easiest way) the…

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Art room Chinese New Year bulletin board dragon

I finally used all the plates saved from the Kindergarten Swirly Color Wheel project to make scales for a bulletin board dragon. This bulletin board is pretty long and in a hallway so it's really hard to photograph. You can't tell from the glare, but the signs just explain how Asian dragons are different from Western dragons, why dragons from China, Japan, and Korea have different numbers of claws, and the third addresses whether or not dragons are real. The Kinders argued that it was a…

Chinese New Year- Bulletin Board

Chinese Dragon

Today I put up my January bulletin board celebrating Lunar New Year.

Chinese New Year Dragons