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Lesson Plans


Re: Elem. Chinese New Year Ideas?

From: Susan Bennett (sbennett)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 19:18:04 PST

Are you using any special books for resources? Susan in Ohio
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From: Moonbeargj <Moonbeargj>
To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet>
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Elem. Chinese New Year Ideas?

>Our local cultural arts center is holding a contest to see which school can
>come up with the most amazing Chinese dragon. Saw the directions and
without
>too much elaboration here's the deal. Use 5 or 6 boxes that copy paper
comes
>in. Turn them upside down and use cord or whatever to tie them
>together.....like cars on a train. Two holes are put about 10 inches apart
>on front and back of each box and sections of cord are attached between
>boxes...big knot tied to hold cord in the hole. These boxes are the body
>segments of the dragon. Head and tail parts may also be out of boxes or
the
>lids but that part of the creation is left to designers of your dragon.
How
>you decorate and or paint the dragon is up to creator. This dragon may be
>carried overhead with one child under each box...like the ones seen in the
>parade. The cultural arts center will be hanging up all entries....guess
>this could be hung horozontally or vertically. I have made a similar
dragon
>in the past and it looks cool to hang colorful crepe paper streamers from
the
>sides of the boxes. Looks great when people move with dragon and kind of
>hides the people. Now I'm excited about the project and may try it.
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