Chinese Dragon Craft

You'll notice that we have a countdown to Josie's cast removal at the top of the blog. I can't wait until we can bath and dress her without worrying about her cast. We've also had to start putting a plastic cup (with holes for ventilation) over her casted hand. The swelling on her hand has gone down and her hand has shifted further down in her cast which is exposing that metal pin more coming out of her new thumb. The doctor's office suggested putting a cup over the end of her hand and then covering the entire thing with a sock. Thank goodness Josie just goes with the flow on this. Let's hope she's equally thrilled about this new contraption when she returns to daycare on Monday. Yippee!!



Nick Jr has some great Chinese New Year crafts on their website. I'm including a link to the Chinese Dragon that Emma and I put together last year in preparation for our own Chinese New Year celebrations. Click here for the dragon and instructions.

This is a really easy craft activity. It requires, white paper for printing, a glue stick or tape, scissors and a green crayon. Emma and I added some glitter glue and a few pom poms to our dragon to embellish him a bit more. We might glue some sequins on him this year because he needs a little more flare.

Detailed instructions for this craft can be found here.

Here's how it looks when it's finished.



Here are a few more pictures of our fireplace mantle with our Chinese New Year decorations.



We've decided to keep up our Chinese tree in our sunroom until after Chinese New Year. It's just too festive to take down and the girls have enjoyed adding more things to the tree each week.



Happy crafting! If you make this lovely dragon, I'd love to see your own version.