How to make a dragon body for Chinese Dragon Parade
- Get a box approximately 12” x 9” x 17” without the cover.
- Use a red poster board and cut three connected triangles with two inches below the triangles.
- Put the box with the opening side on a table.
- Bend and tape the bottom of the triangular poster board on the top middle part of the box with the three triangles standing up.
- Wrap five sides of the box with red gift wrap paper and cut an opening for the triangles to come out.
- Decorate the sides of the box anyway you want and be creative. Here are some suggestions. You can cut circles, glue, and overlap them like scales of a dragon. You can decorate them with wings. You can decorate with your family pictures. You can draw and make it look like a dragon body.