2012: Year of the dragon (and a freebie)

Happy lunar new year!

2012 is the year of the dragon and so I thought I’d make a little paper toy dragon freebie. I got carried away a little and so I now made 4 free printable paper dragon templates, each in a different color. I hope you like playing with these little fortune fellows. Begone you evil spirits!

Frohes Mond-Neujahr!

2012 ist das Jahr des Drache und da dachte ich, ich entwerfe mal einen kleinen Papier-Drachen zum selber bauen (und spielen). Ich habe vor lauter Eifer gleich 4 verschiedene Drachen-Vorlagen in unterschiedlichen Farben gemacht. Ich hoffe, die kleinen Glücksbringer gefallen euch. Hinfort mit euch, ihr bösen Geister!

Download PDFs (4 pages each):

(edit: I have noticed that somehow the preview of the white dragon is shown as the red one on some computers, but it will be fine when you open it! I have no idea how to fix it, re-saving the pdf won’t change it. Sorry, don’t get irritated)

whiteDragonPuppet.pdf

redDragonPuppet.pdf

greenDragonPuppet.pdf

aquaDragonPuppet.pdf

edit 2: If you make one of the dragons, or maybe even several of them, I would love to see some pictures!

Die Anleitung gibt es erst mal nur auf Englisch, solange keiner nach einer deutschen Version schreit! ; )

Download instructions:

Instructions.pdf

19 Comments

by faltmanufaktur on January 23, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in Craft projects, Freebies, Illustration, Paper cut

Tagged chinese, decoration, dragon, fortune dragon, free printable, freebie, gratis, New Year, paper toy, printable, puppet, template

Posted by faltmanufaktur on January 23, 2012

http://faltmanufaktur.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/2012-year-of-the-dragon-and-a-freebie/

19 Comments

Patron Zero
/ February 1, 2012

Many thanks for the generous gift of your creativity so freely shared !

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- faltmanufaktur
  / February 2, 2012
  
  You’re welcome!
  
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Vicki Smith
/ January 30, 2012

What a great post! Thank you for the templates. Your dragon is amazing.

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- faltmanufaktur
  / February 2, 2012
  
  You’re welcome, Vicki! I like your valentine’s bird, too!
  
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kim
/ January 29, 2012

Hi thanks so much .My daughter was born in the year of the dragon and she wants a dragon party. Your dragons are going to be sooo cool as drcorations haning from the trees and roof . I really really want to thank you
Kim ( i am not chinese lol)

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- faltmanufaktur
  / February 2, 2012
  
  Thanks Kim, I hope your daughter will enjoy it! I would love to see photos of the many dragons hanging as decoration!
  
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faltmanufaktur
/ January 27, 2012

Thanks everyone! I’m glad you like it! Have fun!

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Soi Chong Powell
/ January 26, 2012

Vielen Danken!

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Liz
/ January 25, 2012

Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful design!
Danke schon!

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Totò
/ January 25, 2012

Beautiful! Happy New Year!

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peter crow
/ January 25, 2012

Great model!!! Thanks for taking the time to make it available…..

Cheers..

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salazad
/ January 25, 2012

beautiful works.. !

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- faltmanufaktur
  / January 27, 2012
  
  Thanks, I like your work, too!
  
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Vronismus
/ January 24, 2012

Woow, wie wäre es mit einer Videoanleitung? Vor allem die Farbauswahl ist sehr gelungen. Ich habe mir die PDF Dateien geladen und werde es am Wochenende versuchen, wenns klappt melde ich mich wieder :) Weiter so LG

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missboulette
/ January 23, 2012

Alle toll! Dir auch ein schönes Drachenjahr – ab heute ganz offiziell!

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- faltmanufaktur
  / January 23, 2012
  
  Falls Du einen der Burschen bastelst, würd ich ja zu gern ein Foto sehen! : )
  
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