Crafting with kids - a toilet roll dragon with a nest of eggs

This month’s #BostikBlogger craft theme is fantasy creatures. Fairies are usually the first choice when it comes to fantasy creatures. Having made some craft stick fairies last month though, we decided to go for dragons instead. Sophie and I have had fun making a toilet roll dragon sitting on a nest of dragon eggs.

You will need:

A paper bowl
Paint and/or paint pens
Coloured shredded tissue paper or raffia
Polystyrene eggs
Sequins
Glue (we used a Bostik Fine and Wide Glu Pen)
Three toilet rolls
Sparkly paper
Stick-on jewels
Pipe cleaners (orange, yellow and one in a similar colour to the sparkly paper)
Tape (we used Bostik Tape Discs)
Googly eyes

1) Paint the outside of the paper bowl and leave to dry. We used glittery blue paint for this.

2) Paint the inside of the paper bowl.

3) Paint the polystyrène eggs. We used paint pens for this.

4) Cover the eggs in glue. Place the sequins in a bowl and roll the glue-covered egg on the sequins. Leave to dry.

5) Spread glue on the inside of the paper bowl and fill with shredded tissue paper to make the nest. Add the sequin-covered eggs.

6) Cover three toilet roll tubes in sparkly paper. We used sticky-back paper but you could use normal glittery paper and use glue to attach it to the toilet roll.

7) Cut the toilet roll tubes in half.

8) Cut along the length of one piece of toilet roll tube and roll into a cone shape. Glue down the edges.

9) Stick jewels over the toilet roll tubes to decorate the dragon’s body.

10) Join the toilet roll tubes together with the cone shape at the end by threading a pipe cleaner through each one and securing with sticky tape or tape discs to make the dragon.

11) Glue two googly eyes to the front end of the dragon.

12) Cut orange and yellow pipe cleaners into approx 10cm length and tape to the inside of the toilet roll forming the dragons head.

13) Curl the dragon around the nest to guard the eggs.

Sophie made the nest and eggs herself with very little help from me but the dragon was a little trickier. I did most of the putting together of the dragon although Sophie stuck the jewels on . She loved the finished Mummy dragon sitting on her eggs.