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Chinese New Year Pom Pom Dragon

January 16, 2013 by Merry Leave a Comment

Maddy’s latest make is this gorgeous pom pom dragon. Here are her words on how to make him 🙂

Maddy's pom pom Chinese dragon @minimoobear

 

You need red, yellow and blue acrylic yarn and some different coloured pipe cleaners plus something to make eyes; paper, felt or googly eyes will work.

First make 4 medium pom poms, roughly the size of the palm of an adult hand. These pom poms are work out as mostly red, with 1/6 of it wound in yellow. This makes the stripe down his back.

Next make 2 or 3 similarly coloured smaller ones to make the tail, getting smaller as they go along. You can decide how long to make his tail depending on how patient you are. Make another red/yellow medium one to be the nose and a really big one in the same colours to be the head (so, 5 medium, 1 large and 2-3 smaller ones).

Next a thinner pom pom (not too thickly wound) in blue to be the ruffle round his neck.

Now thread yarn through the centre of each pom pom (best to use a thick needle) in this order (medium, large, ruffle,, medium, medium, medium, smalls) and make a really big knot or thread a bead on each end and knot it to make the ends secure.

To make feet, fold a pipe cleaner over the central yarn  and twist it round to secure it as two legs, then make feet at each end. You could decorate the feet with felt or foam. Do one set near the head and one set near the tail.

Do similar ones with more pipe cleaners as horns and spikes wherever you fancy. Some between the nose and head look good as whiskers. Finish off with eyes.

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We tied some string lengths to places along the central yarn to hold it up. If you attach that to a stick, you get a pom pom puppet!

Filed Under: Chinese New Year, Difficulty 3/5, Maddy Makes, Pom Poms Tagged With: chinese craft, Chinese Dragon, Chinese New Year craft, pom pom craft, pom pom dragon, red and yellow dragon craft

Chinese New Year Hama Beads

January 13, 2013 by Merry Leave a Comment

This week my kids and I are going to spend some time revisiting Chinese New Year  and seeing what we can remember from previous times we’ve explored it. The Hama Bead patterns are old ones and have previously featured on our family blog but I thought I would pop them over here too. The dragon, which is done on the ordinary Hama dragon board, gets plenty of admiring comments  as he perambulates around the internet 🙂

hama chinese dragon

Maddy has a great craft lined up for tomorrow but I’m hoping I might persuade her to do another dramatic and brand new hama pattern too.

The same year we also had a go at making Hama Bead tangrams…

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These sort of worked – we had another go and made each individual piece too but the bumpy edges meant they weren’t good enough to play with. Did inspire the kids to actually print off some paper ones though.

One of the younger children made Chinese people. Clearly the whole red and gold thing had hit home, even if nothing else did!5416676904_81d415f431

I’m a little out of the blogging habit just now, what with one thing and another (and a lovely blanket to crochet!) but hopefully putting up a recycled craft here will inspire us all to be more creative tomorrow!

Filed Under: Chinese New Year, Difficulty 2/5, Hama Beads Tagged With: Chinese New Year craft, easy Hama bead dragon, Hama Bead Chinese Dragon, hama bead tangrams

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