Chinese New Year Dragon Parade With Colorful Decorations Coloring Page

A long dragon puppet sweeps across this page on a single tall pole. Its head is huge and friendly, with a wide grin, round eyes drawn as open outlines and two short horns. The body runs back from the head in a row of scalloped segments, and a line of triangular spines marches along the top of it all the way out to the tail. Two round paper lanterns hang in the upper corners, each one ribbed into vertical panels with a fringe at the base. Below, five people watch with their backs to you, and one of them reaches up to hold the pole steady. Those scalloped segments are the heart of the sheet. Run a repeating sequence of three or four colors along the body and the dragon will look like real cloth rather than one flat animal. Keep the two lanterns matched so the top corners balance. The watching crowd can stay quiet, since the whole point is that the dragon is the loudest thing in the street.