Dragon Paper

[Alysa Guillama]

Theback legs are on, and now the front legs are being attached. I include the shoulder section in the leg, and I continue to add masking tape to cover the paper. The masking tape helps make the inner form stronger.

Adding wings to an animal that already has front legs is a real challenge, because the front legs are attached in the place where wings would go. (Wings are front legs, with feathers added). One can only hope that the final sculpture will look halfway reasonable.

Now for the fun, messy part. I dip each torn piece of newspaper into the flour and water paste, and then wipe off the extra paste against the side of the bowl. Then the paper is laid on the body and pressed down as smooth as possible.

The features are left to dry, and then the entire sculpture is covered with a layer of paste, diluted with a small amount of carpenters glue. This helped to smooth out the texture and gives the dragon a smooth, slightly bumpy skin. Once the top layer of paste is dry, the dragon is covered with white primer.

Hi Sofia. You might want to watch this video for tips on making paper mache smooth. The paper towels I referred to are just normal kitchen-type paper towels, the ones that have a light texture. Since making that post I found out that if the towels are two ply towels, you need to pull them apart and use just one side of the paper.

Can you please give me any tips regarding how i can make it stand fix on my shoulder or at my arm so that i dont have to hold it all the time? Thank you so much your talent is amazing and it helped me alot. Soon i will start making my own paper mache dragon.

Hi. I was thinking about starting a year long project where im making the first generation pokemon. I was gonna make it new years goal. But before i started i wanted to see something complex and came across this. Its beautiful and i loved it. My only question is how do u defibe the eyes and such?

Hi im only 12 and i have a school project thats coming up and i really wanted to make a taniwha out of paper mache but i dont know how can you tell me how to make one by tomorow so i can start making it

Hi Jade. I think the easiest way to make your creature is to draw it on cardboard first and then cut it out. Then add some crumpled paper and masking tape to the cardboard to give it a bit more form, and cover that with paper mache. It would be kind of like I made the paper mache echidna, but with a very different shape, of course.

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The trick is learning when to stop adding horns. I have to say that each horn was carefully and deliberately placed. A lot of compulsive putting one on and taking it back off went on behind the scenes. These horns were also not easy to cut. I used a jig saw with a blade made for plexiglass to cut them.

I made sure that the lights under the horns were on seperate circuits from the eyes and the mouth. That way, if I hate the way the lights look under the horns I can just turn leave them off. Here is the dragon with the lights on only in the mouth and eyes.

First I hot glued some foil where the eyes would go to help reflect the light forward. I glued the little clump of lights (nine I think) in place then used masking tape to secure the eyes in front of the lights.

I wanted my trophy to come out of the plaque facing slightly downward and with a little turn of the head (just like in the drawing of Viserian that I put in the first post). So I trimmed the shell so that it would sit the way I wanted on the plaque. When I had the position I wanted I traced around it with a Sharpie (to use for mounting later).

Then I drilled a round oblong cut-outs on each of the wood pieces that had been cut out. I inserted pieces of wire clothes hanger bent into a square. I used the wire to hold the battery packs to the pieces of wood. The oblong holes allow me to grab the wire when pulling out the battery packs.

The shape of these trophies require a very secure connection to the wood plaque. This is especially true if the trophy sports a long neck. While the trophies themselves are not terribly heavy, a long neck will create significant torque. Glue by itself is not strong enough to keep the trophy on the wood. I use pieces of wire clothes hanger to secure the neck to the plaque.

This is my own design of paper airplane. If you make the wings completely level and throw it hard overarm it will fly fast and level indoors for 30 meters or more and it is quite good outside too. So try it out.

Now fold the flap that points downwards up so that its tip touches the tip of the paper airplane at the front. Fold along the dotted line shown in DIG. 5 to do this. If the tips do not meet go back and alter the folding so that they do. This is very important. You should get the form (approximately) in DIG. 6

Now finally fold along the center line and dotted lines in DIG. 6to give you the paper airplane as shown at the top of the page. Throw it hard overarm and it should fly very level and very straight for a long distance.

This plane flies well indoors but is useless outdoors as the slightest breeze will make it crash. Hold it very near its shorter edge (the front) underneath the plane. Throw with a pushing motion or overarm so that when you let go it will be level or very slightly tilted downwards. You should find that this plane will glide very slowly for quite a long distance indoors.

This is a fun little paper castle project that I am making into a tutorial so you can print it up and make it yourself. Bookmark this page if you want to check back in a few days to get the completed project. It all fits on a standard sheet of printer paper so you can download it, print it up and make it yourself.

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The company was established in 1995 and is the largest paperboard producer in Asia and one of the largest in the world in terms of production capacity.[1] It has 9 factories in China and Vietnam. It also owns four paper and pulp mills along with a corrugated box plant in the United States, which are part of the US subsidiary, ND Paper. [2]

While many mills globally use forest products for paper production, Nine Dragons primarily uses recycled paper as the raw material source. The company recycles over 10 million tonnes of fiber annually.

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Crevette (6 years 6 months) was delighted when I told him we had been chosen as Bostik ambassadors. Throughout the year, we will receive a box full of crafting goodies. It was a dream come true for Crevette!

You see, my little man is not the sporty type. There are a few after school clubs available at his school, but they at all sports-based. Crevette would much rather attend an arts and crafts or cookery club. He loves nothing more than a little project we can work on together, and he was bubbling with excitement when we opened the parcel together.

Although I have to admit our dragon looks more like a squid than a fierce fire-breathing creature, it was a fun activity and a nice sensory experience for Wriggly, who was mesmerised by the tissue paper as Crevette was blowing.

If you have an angry toddler or preschooler (I have two of these at home at the moment!), you could use the dragon as a way to help them calm their anger by taking deep breaths and breathing through the cup more and more gently. Hopefully, calming the dragon will calm them, too. If you can get them to hold the cup without tearing the tissue paper first, that is!

If you are looking for quick and easy activities to try with your children, why not give a go to our toilet paper roll bunnies, reindeer lanterns, finger painting, painting the bath, thumbprint art or try making play dough?

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Long Jing, or Dragonwell, is one of China's most famous teas, the very definition of the meticulous effort of pan-fired tea. It was granted imperial status in the Qing Dynasty. The tea takes its name from the Dragon's Well located near Longjing Village. The well is said to contain relatively dense water. When it rains, the lighter rainwater floats on the surface. When you run your hand through it, a swirling pattern resembling a dragon appears. Long Jing is produced from delicate bud sets of two tiny leaves and one unopened bud, smoothed and shaped in a hot wok, using bare hands. The tea is removed from the wok, allowed to cool and rest, then re-fired six or more times. This creates layers of toasty complexity, with an unmistakable chestnut flavor, buttery mouthfeel and gentle vegetal flavor.

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