Munashe recently celebrated his fifth birthday. Where did all that time go? He now is making lots of his own choices and when it came to decide what theme he would like for his birthday party he chose DRAGONS!!
Making these dragon eggs took me back to my primary school days. Not that I ever made dragon eggs but because of paper mâché and balloons! Don’t you just love paper mâché?
First things first..ripping up the newspaper. Next, mixing up the wallpaper paste and start sticking.
Zori absolutely loves this glue…lots of fun, sensory play and gooey fingers.
We could have kept going and covered these balloons more times to make them extra strong but it was really tricky to know how many layers we had done. So lots of guess work involved. The more layers, the stronger the dragon egg.
We did a final layer in white printer paper, this was to make the painting stage more straight forward. I’m sure poster paints used to be more opaque than they are today. I remember the big boxes of coloured powder that we mixed ourselves. Now we just have semi opaque paint in bottles. Some things were just better back in the day!
The white layer worked really well and painting was a joy.
The dragon eggs made up part of our ‘Hunt the Dragon Eggs’ game. For extra excitement I’d made some Origami Dragons and put them inside the paper mâché eggs. Munashe was very pleased to find a dragon 🙂
For other dragon party ideas check out Feeding the Dragon andRoaring Dragon Activity
What theme did your child choose for their last birthday? Please comment below 🙂
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The Real Lara Shoe 
Those dragon eggs look great and I can see what fun was had making them! I love the idea of the origami dragon surprise too! Thanks for sharing #KidsCorner
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What a great idea 🙂 and love the origami dragons too what a lovely surprise #kidscorner xx
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How cool is that dragon! clever lady great idea for a birthday party Thanks for linking up to #kidscorner x
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Thanks, the kids enjoyed it. x
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Looks like the kids have had the most awesome time! We also did this in easter, but a smaller size. These looks amazing! 🙂 #KidsCorner
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Thanks..lots of fun was had. I like the idea of smaller eggs 🙂
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What a fab activity and birthday idea. It does look like lots of fun.
Thanks for linking #LetKidsbeKids (sorry I’m late reading, I was away for the weekend)
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Thanks. We love making things 🙂
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Do you know I have done this in school but never thought to do it with my own kids! Great idea! Thanks for sharing in #KidsCorner x
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Have fun if you decide to give it a go!
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this is the cutest thing ever!! such a fantastic idea for the dino lovers! and fantastic origami you should do a dragon tutorial for it!! i’de read it!
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Wow so fantastic and creative idea, I especially love the origami dragons! Ella had a Frozen theme and Holly a Peppa pig one.xx #KCACOLS
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It’s so fun doing theme parties x
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Paper mache is the best fun! That was such a great idea to have the origami dragons too! 🙂 It will be Marianna’s first birthday on New Year’s Day. We’re planning a little tea party with family because her nan has got her an Alice in Wonderland dress to wear. #KCACOLS
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Such a clever idea! I love the idea of putting Origami dragons in the eggs! My daughter’s 5th birthday was all about Frozen 🙂 Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next Sunday
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OH wow those origami dragons look fantastic!! What a great idea!! And the dragon eggs too. I love the idea of having the origami dragons inside the dragons eggs!!! You are really good at this!! Very clever!! Love it!! Thanks so much for sharing this at #KCACOLS. I’m so happy to have you for the first time. I hope that you like it!! 🙂 xx
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