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How to make dragon eggs

This is a lovely idea for turning simple plastic eggs into magical, decorated dragon's eggs in just a few simple steps. You might get even more creative and make a tiny dragon to go inside!

Posted on Wednesday 11th July 2018

You will need:

How to make the eggs:

Step 1

Once the glue gun is heated, carefully draw on your pattern. We did some practise beforehand so we knew what patterns we wanted.

Dragon egg craft by Lottie Makes

Step 2

When the glue is dry, paint over the eggs with a base colour – we chose black for this.

Step 3

Once the black paint is dry, paint on other colours – a dry brush effect works really well for this. We added highlights using metallic colours too.

Step 4

Apply a coat of Mod Podge to seal the paint, then leave to dry.

Dragon egg craft by Lottie Makes

Making the tiny Dragon:

Dragon egg craft by Lottie Makes

Step 1

Ensure you create a dragon small enough fit inside your egg (if that is what you want to achieve). It could be slightly bigger as if it has just hatched! First, make the head and body using sculpting tools.

Dragon egg craft

Step 2

Sculpt the wings. These can be quite difficult so we did some research on the internet first. It helps to draw a wing on paper to use as a template. Once we had a wing we liked, we used the template, flipped it and used it to make the second wing. You may be able to get away with just the one wing. Attach these to the body.

Step 3

Make some ears, a tail and the eyes.

Step 4

Add details. We used a pen and made tiny holes to add texture to the skin of the dragon. We also added details to the wings using sculpting tools.

 

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