New Year's Dragon Mask

New Year's mask is a perfect addition to your image. Very often they arrange thematiccelebrations, which necessarily require a mask. And now the New Year's dragon mask will not only complete your image, but it will also be an excellent occasion to show your product handmade and show your imagination.

There are several ways to make New Year's masks by yourself. The easiest way is to cut it out of a rigid cardboard. To begin with, you need to select a drawing thatYou will use for a mask. Take a sheet of cardboard and mark on it the size of the mask. Also be sure to note where the eyes will be located. Now you can apply the drawing on the cardboard. If you do not draw well, you can print out any drawing of the dragon mask that you like. It should be pasted onto cardboard. In this case, you should carefully select the size of the picture.

When the picture on the New Year's mask is ready, it should be carefully cut and then painted. Cut out the eye holes and small holes on the sides. Insert a thin rubber band into the holes on the sides so that you can safely wear this mask. Your New Year mask is ready.

But on this version of the dragon mask you can not stop. New Year's mask can be decorated. The easiest way is to cut long enoughPaper stripes of different colors and paste them to the mask. Girls can offer to decorate their dragon mask with lustres, beads, rhinestones or multi-colored feathers.

Those who have already come across the art of papier-mâché can be offered to make a three-dimensional mask. This mask will take a lot longer, but it will look much more effective.

New Year's dragon mask with your own hands made of papier-mache

To make such a mask, you will need:

• 2 balloons


• Scotch


• newsprint


• flour for glue


• scissors

Papier mache masks are good in that they are very beautiful and voluminous. But here papier-mache technique requires a certain skill. So, let's start making a New Year's dragon mask.

Blow two balloons: one - more, the second - smaller. A large ball is a head, a small one is a dragon's nose. Well tie the balls that they are not blown away. Using adhesive tape, attach the balls to each other. From the newspaper make two small cones, which will be the horns of the dragon. To give a certain form to the horns, you can wet the newspaper. Be careful not to tear the paper. Give the horns the desired shape. The shape can be fixed with glue, which is prepared from flour. Dry paper horns are attached to a large balloon by means of an adhesive tape.

To prepare a conventional flour-based glue, mix 2 cups of water and 4 cups of flour. This mixture is heated on fire until bubbles begin to form. Then the glue can be removed from the fire. To prevent the flour from being cooked with lumps, stir the glue constantly!

In the prepared glue damp little pieces of the newspaper and glue them balls. So you will give your New Yeara certain structure and form. To make the New Year's mask stiff enough, make 5-6 layers from the newspaper. Now let the mask dry completely.

At the bottom of the mask, cut a hole with a scissorsfor your head. To remove the balls, they just pierce with a pin and pull out their remains. A ready-made mask is painted in a certain color and allowed to dry. This mask can also be decorated with scales cut from cardboard. Of course, it will take much longer, but the result will be simply excellent.