Today we are celebrating the Chinese New Year! It is the year of the dragon! I thought it would be fun to create a dragon lunch for JDaniel. Rather than make a scary dragon I made a fun dragon for his lunch. After sharing the lunch I made I will share some fun Chinese New Year dragon craft ideas you will just love.
Chinese Dragon Snack
We had such fun dyeing beige tortilla neon green and cutting them out with cookie cutters for this meal. If you prefer you can create the dragon using a spinach tortilla. It would eliminate the need to dye the beige tortilla and give your kids a vegetable serving too.
The dragon has a ham inner mouth and carrot tongue.The dragon’s eyes are black olives with corn pupils. I am not sure most dragons have crests on their heads, but this one has an American cheese crest.
Yes, that makes this ham and cheese sandwich with a few vegetables. JDaniel loves ham and cheese right now. This was a fun way to serve him some of his favorite foods.
Since New Year’s is usually celebrated with fireworks, I gave JDaniel red grape, red strawberry, and red grape tomato fireworks to have with his dragon.
Chinese New Year Dragon Craft Ideas
After creating a fun dragon snack or lunch, your kids will have fun selecting one of these dragon craft ideas.
Red Cup Dragon from Danielle’s Place
Paper Roll Dragon with Flames You Can Actually Blow from One Little Project
Chinese Paper Dragon from Made with Happy
How to Make an Egg Carton Dragon Craft for Chinese New Year by I Heart Crafty Things
You will find more craft ideas on my Crafts for Kids board on Pinterest. Please take a moment to check them out.

that is SUPER CUTE!! sorry if this is a dumb question… but how do you dye the tortilla?
This is so cute! Love the dragon
This is adorable! One of your finest ๐
Such a cute dragon! I’m so impressed with your creativity! I stumbled your post and pinned it to my Kids’ Chinese New Year Pinterest board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-chinese-new-year-activities/
That dragon is amazing! I LOVE it!
Amazing!
Very cute dragon ๐
Chinese New Year?
What a great thing to know…
I will make stir fry, and let the kids now why.
Thank you.
That is an adorable dragon!!
Thank you for highlighting Chinese New Year, I happen to celebrate it ๐
What a cute dragon! Thanks for sharing.
That is so creative, love it! Very cute.
I love that dragon!!
This is too cute. Happy Chinese New Year!
I was born in the year of the dragon! And I think I need to eat this lunch!!
=)
I had no idea it was Chinese New Year.
And I’m very impressed with that dragon! ๐
I love this lunch, how cute and creative!
Love your dragon!! Did you just use food coloring and brush it over the tortilla? So creative!
how cute is that?
yes, now that you did this post… i am really wanting chinese now ๐
It’s sooooo cute and clever!!! I would love to eat some Chinese food right now…but I’m having some health issues that prevent me from eating too much fried/spicy food. So I guess we won’t be celebrating CNY this year.
~MiaB
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My girls would LOVE this! Their favorite stuffed animals that they have had since they were tiny are dragons. I’ll have to do this one weekend for them. Thanks for the idea and Happy Chinese New Year!
These are adorable!
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We’ve done lots with CNY and had so much fun. See our link above.
Love your dragon. ๐
So fun and creative!
Oh my goodness how cute is that! I love it! You are so creative! My kids would love that! ๐
Awesome Dragon lunch!! How did you dye the tortilla bread green??
I love these muffin tin meals – so very creative!! I’m going to have to try making some of these ๐
What a fun and creative activity. I love the way the dragon came out. I will use this idea the next time I have to babysit my niece. She is going to love it.
These are so fun, I love this one!
Very cute idea! I love the dragon!
So cute!!
You are my hero. That is by far the cutest lunch ever!!
Very cute & so bright & colorful! Great meal!
Your dragon turned out soo cool! Love it!
How in the world do you dye a tortilla???
We celebrated Chinese New Year by having French Toast! Yup. That’s what my son wanted but had I known what day it was, we’d have had Chinese Toast. CUTE pics and idea!
This looks awesome! So creative. And healthy.
That is cute! I didn’t even realize it was Chineese New a year, woops.
That dragon is seriously cute!
I was wondering what that vivid green was. Tortillas! Brilliant!
Love the dragon and I’m SOOOOOO glad I’m looking at this when I’m not at home so John doesn’t see it! I’d have to figure out how to do it for him, too! (I made the mistake of telling him they celebrate for 15 days. I’m hoping I might get away with only making 2 lunches for it.)
How fun! You know, I didn’t even think about Chinese New Year. ๐ Will have to correct that.
Cute!! This turned out cute and looks very tasty!
You are SO creative!
Well done Mama, well done!
oh my! That is the cutest thing! Just when I think you’ve maxed out the creative ideas, you prove that you have an unlimited supply!!!
I always love your muffin tins, but this one is especially cute!
Love your chinese dragon! That’s so creative. ๐
You are so creative!! You will be my inspiration when I’m home more and do things like this!
SO cute and clever.
You are too much. seriously! you spent the time and effort to die tortillas green?
You deserve “mom of the year”.
This is so neat! I love the tongue & eyes ๐
So creative! I bet he loved it. Lucky boy. ๐
Super adorable! My boys would love that. SO creative!
Very cute! I am looking for another idea for Chinese New Year right now and I might do this! (Got to leave in 45 mins, so I better get on it!) I’ve done several CNY bentos this past week.
That dragon is ADORABLE!! How cute cute cute! Brilliant for Chinese New Year indeed!
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
This is so fun and creative.
Oh he’s darling. I can’t believe how creative you are. Very fun. Can’t wait to see what you make next.
-Veronica
So adorable. I’m adding it to my Chinese New Year Celebration Board on Pinterest. Thanks for the idea!
This is awesome!
That is such a fantastic idea- love the dragon! Thank you for sharing your ideas with us on The Sunday Showcase Hope to see you next week ~Aimee
So cute! I love your lunch ideas. Thanks for sharing with Afterschool!