Crafting In The Library: Here There Be Dragons

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Crafting is a great program to hold in the library, and also to do at home. We know that most of you are at home right now, and may be also working with kids in person or online. So our weekly crafts will be more kid-friendly, to be sure everyone can participate!

As so many of us are at home right now, you probably have some handy extra toilet paper or paper towel rolls around the house. And if you want to make some extra friends to keep around the house, we have just the craft project for you!

This fire breathing, toilet paper roll dragon is SO MUCH FUN! Blow into the end, and it looks like flames are coming out of the dragon's mouth! Such a cute craft idea for a rainy day!

You can get all the directions, along with some good pictures of the step-by-step process, on this blog.

Here are the materials you can collect before you get started:

  • Paper Roll (Toilet paper roll, paper towel roll, or wrapping paper roll)
  • Green or Red Construction Paper
  • 2 Medium Pom Poms
  • 2 Small Pom Poms
  • 2 Medium Googly Eyes
  • Red, Yellow and Orange Tissue Paper
  • Glue Stick
  • Glue Gun or Glue Dots

And, of course, like any craft project you can feel free to make it however you want! So feel free to swap out colors, add glitter, do some painting – whatever makes your dragon feel personalized.