Dragon puppets for Chinese new year

Today mummy,daddy and Sophie got busy making some puppets for the Chinese New year, which is on the 23rd on January this year and this year it is the year of the water dragon, so we decided to have some fun and make a couple of different dragons for Sophie to play with.  Sophie has really got into shadows recently mostly from the introduction of her Dora bedtime book So Daddy decided that for his dragon he would make it as a shadow for her.

After finding a cut out dragon shape from the British Museum we put this on foam and draw and cut round it and then assembled it with split pins and doweling rods.

After the dragon was made the pair went and played with it and a very bright mag light to help create the shadows,  there was lots of roaring and the dragon did lots of eating of Sophie and her toys as well as hiding and jumping out followed by more roaring.

For the next puppet this was made using a baby sock that didn't fit Sophie any more, here is scruff who as you can see has been at the chocolate.

After pulling some bits and bobs together from the craft cupboard mummy got busy with the glue and made a face with horns and some pretty wings from foam and flat beading which was pulled apart and was stuck on the wings.

Sophie put her sock puppet on and flew him round and round the living room roaring, there was a lot of roaring today.