We listened to a Chinese legend about a dragon then we made our own.
The story we listened to was about a very old dragon who had flown down from a nearby mountain to die but the hated King wanted the dragon killed anyway to be more popular. He hired the best dragon killer in all the land to kill the old dragon but he didn’t because he knew it was going to die so he returned and the King was furious but he didn’t stop try and hired the second best dragon killer in the land. But he also returned without killing the dragon, this made him so angry he could have stomped his feet but he didn’t. He hired the third best dragon killer in the land. He went to see the dragon then came back and agreed to do it and killed the old dragon, ignoring the warning the previous dragon killers had given about the dragon. The dragon blood poisoned the land so that crops didn’t grow for 100 years and the smoke that came out of the dragon’s nose blocked out the sun.

After we made Chinese dragons out of paper. It was quite simple. We drew the shape of the head and cut it out the added some horns, eyes, beards and teeth. Then we made the body by folding paper.
Here’s the website we used if you want to make your own.
www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/ChineseDragon.aspx

By Euan