Dragons are fabulous creatures that both adults and children like. If everyone likes them so much, why not make yourself one (or a couple) with your own hands?

Such a handmade dragon can serve as great gift self made especially for those who are interested in this subject.

Today's master class is provided for our site by forum member Irbisina from the HobbyPortal forum, where you can read the original of her master class about dragons made of paper, wire, rope and mass for modeling.

So, if you decide to make a dragon with your own hands, first draw a sketch of it or select an image you like, since there are more than enough pictures of dragons on the Internet.

Now it's time to think about what the size of your dragon will be, how the wire frame will be located in its body. Cut the wire for the frame: body, paws, wings.

In order to connect the individual parts of the wire with your own hands, you can solder them or tightly wrap them with adhesive tape, electrical tape, thin sections even with threads.
To solder the frame, you need to remove the varnish from the wire with the help of a skin with your own hands, irrigate the soldering points (the tinned surface is better wetted with solder) and solder the frame.

Give the frame an approximate shape and solder it:

Let's take care of the paws: solder, cut to the desired length, sharpen the claws with a needle file and bend them.

This is what our handmade dragon looks like at this stage. Still far from perfect:

Now it is very important to make sure that the legs of the dragon are the same length. The author’s one leg turned out to be longer, so she then had to return to this stage again (removing the paper wound after) and shorten the leg by 1.5 cm.

Now we arm ourselves with toilet paper and wrap the frame in one layer with it with our own hands. We cover with diluted PVA glue and let dry.

When the glue is dry, we tear off the paper in small pieces, squeeze it with our own hands and attach it to the dragon (threads), then we wrap toilet paper over it until the thickness of all parts of the dragon we need is formed:

On the legs we act in a similar way, only more carefully than on a thick body, the handmade dragon is already acquiring its final shape:

When you wrap the whole dragon with paper, coat it well with glue and let it dry.
Usually dragons are covered with scales. In order to create its likeness, the author uses a rope with the amazing name "Recycled Packaging". It must be glued onto the dragon's body using a universal transparent glue (for example, Moment).
Instead of a rope, you can use flagella twisted from toilet paper.
We begin to glue where the rope can go in a circle (in the photo - the neck of the dragon), it is easier to pre-lubricate the surface with glue with your own hands.

We wrap the neck and go to the body (we also apply glue to it, but not much), from the body we go to the tail and fix our rope. We don’t pay attention to the empty chest and ass yet, let them be paper for now. :)
We cut off a small amount of rope, separate it and already thin we wind it onto the base for the wings. Don't forget the glue.

Here is what we get as a result of our work with our own hands:

We put a little glue on the paw and wrap it around, we reach the claws. Again we divide the rope into three parts, wrap each finger, reaching the claw, turn the dragon over and connect all three threads of the rope into one.

With a connected rope we make a coil around the paw and glue it. Here it is, the finished handmade dragon foot:

It remains to seal with a rope with a rope all the places where the paper is still visible.
Let's start with the handmade dragon chest.
We cut off a piece from the rope, exactly equal in length to the remaining "hole" on the dragon's body, and begin to lay it, smearing it with glue. This is probably the most boring and messy part of working on a handmade dragon.
Behind the paws and near the paws, we press the threads harder to make indentations.

We continue to glue the rope with our own hands, make flagella in the size of the remaining holes. We put a drop of glue on the kochiki, twist it, glue it. So we complete the work on the chest of the dragon.

Now we make rope inserts on the hind legs of a handmade dragon with our own hands.

The gap between the hind legs remained unglued, and we glue it in the same way.

When the whole dragon is wrapped, apply a primer and leave to dry. When it dries, it's better to cover the handmade dragon acrylic paint(for example, white) so that it is monophonic.

Now it's time to sculpt the dragon's head with your own hands. The author does this from a special self-hardening in air mass KERA Plast

If it’s very tight with the masses for modeling, then the dragon’s head can be made with your own hands from papier-mâché or salt dough, but it will not be so convenient, simple and fast.
First you need to give general form head, make notches under the eyes with your fingers, form a beak (it will also be a nose), make holes with a toothpick and give it the desired shape. Stick a cake on top of your head and press everything well, smooth out the joints, shape your eyebrows.

Attach a pre-prepared wire (curved in the shape of the head and horns) on top of the head. Under the wire and on top, make sausages and then align everything. Having given the head the desired shape from above, immediately apply a drawing with a toothpick with your own hands. We apply modeling paste on the wire and give it the shape of a horn, then we sculpt a sausage from below and smear it around where the horn grows from. It should turn out like in the photo. While the paste is still warm, use a toothpick or a needle to scratch the horn and adjacent parts of the head to give the handmade dragon a realistic look.

We make a notch on the head, where we will then place the middle horns.

We begin to make dragon eyes with our own hands. To do this, you need to roll up a small ball and press it into the places for the eyes that we prepared in advance (pits). Insert a rhinestone (or bead) immediately. If it doesn't hold well, glue it on. Blind the lower jaw and connect with the upper. Roll up the sausage and stick it on the bottom of the handmade dragon's eye to create a predatory squint

Smear the sausage under the eye, smooth it (with your finger). Put your hands on your cheeks and try to shape your cheekbones. If necessary, remove excess modeling paste.
Glue the back of the dragon's head with a modeling mass cake and get the final look. If there are also such needle-shaped decorations next to the head of your dragon (as in the last photo), then make cutouts for them. We will now make them according to the same principle as the wings.

Scratch the head a little with a needle, giving the effect of skin. We put the head on the remaining unwound end of the wire on the neck.
We proceed to the manufacture of wings, the "plumage" of the spine and needle-shaped decorations next to the dragon's head. All of them are made according to the same principle.
To make the wings, lay the dragon sideways on a piece of paper, trace with your hands the general shape of future wings. Draw the veins. Place the resulting handmade dragon wing pattern under transparent polyethylene. On top of the veins, lay out and stick the flagella twisted from the toilet or newsprint, coat them with diluted PVA glue.
On top of the flagella we glue toilet paper, paper towels, napkins or crumpled paper (sold in rolls). If you use toilet paper, try to ensure that the joints pass along the flagella - the veins of the wings, and not between them.
We turn over, glue the second layer of paper on the other side with our own hands so that the flagella - veins are between the two layers of paper.
We coat the paper with PVA glue (in this case, small wrinkles should be created on the paper), wait for it to dry, carefully remove the wing from the polyethylene. We cut the wing exactly according to the pattern and glue it to the handmade dragon.

We make a spine. Almost the same as the wings. We lay flagella on toilet paper at a certain distance (you can estimate so that they are more often to the tip of the tail and less often to the neck of a handmade dragon).
Cover with a second layer of toilet paper, coat with PVA, dry. To glue this strip of toilet paper on the backbone of the dragon, first, approximately in the middle of the backbone, glue a long flagellum from toilet paper or newspaper, glue a strip to it, on the other side of the strip, glue a second flagellum supporting the protruding spine.

We cut the ridge to the desired length, cut out the desired shape.

Now it remains only to paint the dragon and varnish it with your own hands!

By the way, dragons can be made with your own hands not only from paper and rope, but also from leather (with wire and a small amount of plastic), as Marina Bulat does and attaches, for example, to wine glasses:

Dragons are known to have a special place in Chinese mythology. Yes, and children are very fond of these fabulous animals. You can use this craft for role play"The Princess and the Dragon"

Well, we will time this craft for the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Materials:

How to do:

1. Print out the template or dragon. Decide whether you want to paint the dragon yourself or choose a ready-made option.

2. Cut out the dragon's tail and head.

3. Decorate the head with feathers and the tail with crepe paper ribbons of red and yellow flowers. You can use either glue or double sided tape.

4. Now let's make the body of the dragon. We have already used the accordion technique when creating. Cut two strips of colored paper 2.5 cm wide. Fold them perpendicularly and secure with tape. Now start stacking the strips on top of each other. Carefully smooth the fold lines with your fingernail.

Here's what we got:

5. Attach the dragon's body with tape to the head and tail. Glue the skewers - for them you will hold the dragon.

You did it! Enjoy the Chinese New Year celebration!

I found the pattern of this Chinese Dragon in an old magazine that my mother subscribed to 24 years ago. But apart from the pattern, nothing was preserved, so I had to work a little to assemble it.

For work, I needed: threads, fabric for the dragon's body (it is better to use a dense one - such as cloth), cotton wool to fill it, pattern paper and safety pins.

When printing, I increased the size of the conditional cell to 2 cm. The cotton fabric must be starched, and it is better to cut the synthetic one with a burner (the edges are processed so well). I used synthetic fabric and therefore cut it out with a burner. With this method, you can cut each part separately, then they will be neat and will not crumble, or you can cut the parts together, then they will not move when stitching, but here you need to be careful not to solder those parts that should remain free, otherwise they it will be impossible to separate and even cotton wool will have nowhere to fill.

1. Connecting the body parts separately top and bottom.

2. We sew paws and stuff them with cotton wool, the thread must be used as usual. I used a stiff thread with lurex, and therefore, when I stuffed them with cotton, the dragon's fingers bent, it turned out not very beautiful.

3. We sew the body and sew the paws to it. It would probably be more correct to sew the torso, stuff it with cotton and only then sew paws into it. But I don't have much of a friendship with Blind Stitches, so I did something different. Starting with the tail, I began to sheathe the body in a circle, first of all connecting the side of the body where the paws were (sewing them in parallel). Then she sheathed the upper part in parts and gradually filled the body with cotton wool.

4. We collect the head. I had to tinker with my head, I altered it several times in parts to make it work well.
a) Sew together: the mouth, 2 parts of the head and the lower jaw, inserting the teeth in the right places. I tried to attach the teeth with double-sided tape so that at least they would not fall out, but this only complicated the task. Scotch categorically refused to be pierced with a needle. We fill the space between the mouth and the lower jaw with cotton wool, do not fill the entire space with one piece, otherwise the mouth will open and you can’t do anything with it, better with two pieces for the lower and upper jaw.
b) We sew in the forehead with a mustache, do not forget to attach the horns in the right places. Then they can be corrected.
c) We start decorating. Sew on the collar and comb; fill the voids with cotton; glue the tongue, eyes. Final touches.

5. We connect the head and torso. We put the head on the end of the main frame protruding from the neck, stuff it tightly with cotton wool. Turning the head slightly to the left, towards the viewer, we sew it firmly to the neck along the same dotted line along which the decorative collar is attached from the inside.
On one of the upper bends of the torso, we will sew an inconspicuous loop so that our dragon can hang on the wall or on the Christmas tree and celebrate its New Year 2012.

good day everyone brains! If you know writers such as Anne McCaffrey or George Martin and are a fan of their work, then you definitely need homemade this brainarticles- a dragon sitting on his shoulder!

This brain trick just from wire, foil, adhesive tape and some other "garbage". This is my first attempt at creating crafts of this kind, but I will say that to make such a spectacular homemade easier than it looks at first glance.

Step 1: We need

galvanized wire of different thicknesses 16 and 20 (1.6mm and 0.88mm)
aluminium foil
masking tape
filler putty (e.g. Spackle, Polyfilla)
polymer clay (eg Fimo or Sculpey)
thin cotton fabric
white glue (PVA)
paints and varnish.

Step 2: Wire frame

From a thicker wire we create a frame crafts- the basis of the head, neck, torso and tail. At this stage, a simple loop will do for the base of the head. From small pieces of the same thick wire bent in the form of a “V” tick, we create the front and hind legs, the tips of which we bend with loops (needle-nose pliers are very useful for this). We fasten the created paws to the frame of the body with pieces of thin wire, while we do not save on the wire so that the paws hold on stronger. This is probably the most "boring" part of the whole brainstorming. Maybe, The best way to do this, first wrap a thin wire around one of the paws, then continue winding it around the frame, and then this procedure repeat for all paws.

As soon as all the paws are firmly fixed, we begin to give the dragon a shape, bending the paws and torso for this. If you want your brain trick sat on your shoulder, then leave enough space between the paws for this, and bend the tail so that it comfortably wraps around your neck. It is clear that the thicker the wire, the stronger and better it holds its shape.
Next, starting from the back, we proceed to create the actual body of the dragon, and we do this with the help of crumpled foil and narrow masking tape. You can directly “knead” the foil onto the frame, or form “muscles” out of it and attach them to it with tape. Add foil and tape in layers in the right places until the shape is formed as needed. But we don’t finish the paws, and we don’t form the shoulder area too much, since we still need to attach the wings.

Step 3: Wings

It is easier to make the wings separately at first, and only then attach them to the body dragon brain. They, like the paws, are solid. From a piece of wire we bend the two upper "fingers" and the forearms of the wings. We make the remaining pairs of “fingers” by bending two pieces of wire in the middle, and then, in the same way as we attached the paws to the body, we fasten them with a thin wire to the upper “fingers”.

After that, we begin to wind foil and adhesive tape on the wings. On the “fingers”, I managed only with tape (without foil) so that they remain thin. And before forming the “biceps” on the wings, do not forget to attach small pieces of thin wire to them, with which the wings will be attached to the body.

We fasten the wings to the body brain crafts and continue to sculpt the “meat” on the shoulders and limbs with the same foil and tape, thereby also strengthening the wings on the body. At the same time, follow your “anatomical” intuition, because who knows how the six-pointed animal “functions” 🙂

Step 4: Paws

Remember those loops with which we marked the paws? Now is the time to form "fingers" on them. To do this, we fasten two loops of thin wire to each paw and wrap them tightly with tape. Then, cutting these loops in the middle, we get 4 fingers on each paw, they need to be bent, cut to the desired length, give them the desired shape using brain foil and brain tape. If you look closely, you can see that the tips of such “fingers” are uncovered and protrude like claws. This allows the "dragon" to cling to clothing like a kitten.

Step 5: Head and putty

It's time to head up!

From polymer clay we make winding horns for our “dragon” (of course, if you want them to be) and “bake” them until cooked. And then “on the knurled” - we wrap foil, adhesive tape, horns in the right place, until the head homemade will not become the head of the "dragon". As I believe, such a head should have brow ridges, a massive lower jaw and a small chin. To do this, we twist short “convolutions” of foil and fasten them in the right place. It is advisable to have several pictures with dragons in order to have an idea how a dragon is. craft should look like in the end.

All wrapped up! The next step is optional, but recommended. Homemade can be covered with several layers of filler putty to make the "dragon" smoother and hide wrinkles and folds from tape. You may want to do this over several days, each time focusing on one part of the brain dragon and letting it dry. You can also "draw" fine details with putty, if you know how to do it.

Keep in mind that by applying the putty and letting it dry, the dragon will lose the ability to change shape, or will crack when bent, so be sure before applying the putty that its shape suits you.

Step 6: Finishing the Wings

Using scissors and paper, we cut out the membranes of the wings (roughly), and then transfer this template to a thin cotton fabric, for which you can take an old sheet or a sample from a fabric store, or something similar.

After that, we impregnate the fabric membranes in PVA glue and drape the wings with them brain crafts, holding it with clothespins until the glue dries completely. We cut off the excess with scissors and attach the ends of the membranes desired view. I believe that the wings of dragons must have one or even two gaps.

Step 7: Spikes

As a rule, dragons have thorns various forms, and I do not even guess what their evolutionary purpose is, but they still exist. We sculpt spikes from polymer clay different types and sizes, and then bake them.

In order to attach these spikes, we “drill” holes in the filler and adhesive tape in the right places with a self-tapping screw, dip the spikes in glue and insert them into the holes.

Step 8: Coloring and varnishing

Details of coloring dragon brain I won’t, I’m not experienced enough in this matter, and there are already a large number of guides for coloring figures. My homemade I covered it with several coats of plaster to smooth out the filler and then painted it with bronze spray paint in two shades. I painted the belly and spikes with white ivory acrylic, for realism I applied some more black acrylic with a dry brush.

And after having covered everything dragon brain several layers of spray varnish, glued his eyes, which were rhinestones.

epic craft ready, I hope it was interesting!

Hello, dear daddies, mommies and all visitors to our blog! Today I will tell you how to make a Chinese Dragon with your child.

On the nose and we continue to prepare for it.

No Chinese New Year parade is complete without a dragon dance. These parades begin on the first day of the year and last 15 days.

You can watch one of these dances and show the kids what it is at the end of the article.

Tell your child that the Chinese Dragon, unlike the Western dragon, is not at all evil. He represents wisdom, strength, nobility, wealth, and is an important figure in Chinese culture.

According to legend, the Dragon dance on the first day of the New Year scares away evil spirits and all misfortunes.

Mostly it is performed by men, they carry a Dragon made of silk and paper on long sticks.

To the sound of horns, drums and gongs, they raise and lower the Dragon. It turns out that the Dragon, as it were, flies up and down. The interior of the Dragon is often lit with many light bulbs and candles. In the dark, it seems that he comes to life. It is believed that the larger the Chinese Dragon, the more luck and prosperity it will bring.

I suggest making this colorful Chinese Dragon that will add a touch of luck and wealth to your home!

This Dragon can be used both for home decoration and for creative play with baby.

We made a drum disposable plates, and we will play with him and with our Dragon in Chinese.

Although, all the steps for making a dragon are simple, but they will take some time. If the child decides to do it, the help of parents will be required.

I made the dragon myself, for my daughter, she helped me grease the parts with glue.

You can use the traditional red and gold colors, or you can experiment with different colors, patterns, types of paper and cardboard.

To make the Chinese Dragon, we need:

* red paper for the head and body;

* paper or cardboard of various textures, patterns, colors;

*scissors;

*glue;

* hole punch or thick nail;

*3 buttons with two holes;

* three small pieces of thin copper wire;

* two small sticks;

*dragon pattern.

How to make a Chinese Dragon with a child.

1. and print it.

2. Cut out the head of the dragon from red cardboard in duplicate (mirror to each other).

3. Cut out 2 yellow eyes, stick on the head in the right places. Glue black eyebrows and pupils over the eyes.

4. Cut out a nose from black paper and teeth from white cardboard. Glue to the head.

5. Cut out figures from multi-colored paper or cardboard, in the shape of an eye template, but half the size. Quantity - optional. We will decorate the head of the dragon with them. It took me 17 pieces on one side.

Glue them on the head in several layers.

6. We make the body of our Chinese Dragon. To do this, we cut out 4 parts from cardboard according to the template - two mirror ones.

7. We glue all 4 parts of the body on the outside with strips of multi-colored paper - cut the paper into strips, glue in turn.

After - cut off the excess with scissors.

8. Cut out 6 triangles from double-sided cardboard or colored paper, glue at the top of the front parts of the torso.

9. We glue the parts together. You get two parts of the body, pasted over with stripes on all sides.

10. We cut out two mirror-opposite parts of the tail, glue it, just like the body, glue three red triangles.

11. On one part of the head and one part of the tail, we attach the sticks with adhesive tape.

12. We make holes with a hole punch or a nail in the back of the head, on both ends of the two parts of the body, on the front of the tail.

13. We fasten them to each other. For this thin copper wire thread the buttons through the holes, twist a little. Pass the twisted ends of the wire through the hole in the head and torso. Then we spread the ends of the wire in different directions, cut and fix them with adhesive tape from the wrong side.

In the same way we connect both parts of the body, and the first part of the body with the head.

14. Glue the two parts of the head and the two parts of the tail together.

Trim the protruding parts of the Dragon with scissors.

15. Buttons can be dyed red or any other color.

That's it, our Chinese Dragon is ready!

Wishing you and your children a happy Chinese New Year!

Sincerely.
Elena Medvedeva.

And here is the promised dragon dance video: