DRAGONS

DRAGONS

With so many cool dragon books in the children's collection I did a program all about dragons. I presented  a overview of the types of dragons using Gail Gibbon's book Behold...the Dragons. 

The students knowledge of dragons was impressive. I read You've got dragons by Kathryn Cave which appealed to the K-3rd graders that were in attendance. 

The Craft

I pre-cut black poster board using the technique of drawing a dragon face and folding it in half then cutting it on the better side- as you would cut a paper heart. That way the face was symmetric. We had a lot of wall paper for scrap booking that was pre-cut for a library festival booth making dragon kites. I was able to use those for this craft. The fun part was drawing the scales using metallic markers. There was a very low turn out and the three children were very diligent in creating there dragon heads. I started the scale pattern on the ears down to the brow. 

My example                                                                                      Colin- 3rd grader

Violet - kindergartner 

                                                      Andrew- kindergarten