{"id":68013,"date":"2024-02-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=68013"},"modified":"2024-02-13T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:36:36","slug":"dragon-watercolor-painting-with-cookie-cutters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/dragon-watercolor-painting-with-cookie-cutters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dragons are a great mythological theme for kids. And this dragon cookie painting is a great way to make a dragon painting for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>You paint inside cookie cutters for this great dragon watercolor painting.<\/p>\n<p>This painting project for kids is great for any theme that does a dragon.<\/p>\n<p>And you can do this is preschool, Prek and Kindergarten age kids.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Dragon Watercolor Painting is a great addition to the <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/art-projects-cookie-cutters\/\">cookie cutter crafts<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Cookie Cutter Painting?<\/h2>\n<p>Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.<\/p>\n<h2>Dragon Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters<\/h2>\n<p>Dragon watercolor painting is painting inside Dragon cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.<\/p>\n<h2>Dragon Books to read with this Dragon Watercolor Painting<\/h2>\n<p>We have two favorite dragon books.<\/p>\n<p>They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0689858280\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0689858280&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20\">East Dragon and West Dragon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Knight-Dragon-Paperstar-Book\/dp\/0698116232?crid=15C0H7AZY36UW&#038;keywords=0698116232&#038;qid=1707666074&#038;sprefix=0698116232%2Caps%2C95&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=ca0d663fed2dd87d4d1d267790b3548d&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">The Knight and the Dragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/East-Dragon-West-Robyn-Eversole\/dp\/0689858280?crid=20V21RYX34PWH&#038;keywords=0689858280&#038;qid=1707665443&#038;sprefix=0689858280%2Caps%2C101&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=60ce5658a55cff9e8194e74e1ce06e00&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/east-draon-west-dragon-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/east-draon-west-dragon-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/east-draon-west-dragon-768x619.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/east-draon-west-dragon-640x516.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/east-draon-west-dragon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0689858280\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0689858280&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=3dinos-20\">East Dragon, West Dragon  by Robyn Eversole and Scott Campbell <\/a> is about two dragons who are afraid of each other because they hear scary things about the other. But in the end find they can be great friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Knight-Dragon-Paperstar-Book\/dp\/0698116232?crid=15C0H7AZY36UW&#038;keywords=0698116232&#038;qid=1707666074&#038;sprefix=0698116232%2Caps%2C95&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=ca0d663fed2dd87d4d1d267790b3548d&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kinght-dragon-book-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"The Knight and the Dragon\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kinght-dragon-book-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kinght-dragon-book-1024x831.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kinght-dragon-book-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kinght-dragon-book-640x520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kinght-dragon-book.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Knight-Dragon-Paperstar-Book\/dp\/0698116232?crid=15C0H7AZY36UW&#038;keywords=0698116232&#038;qid=1707666074&#038;sprefix=0698116232%2Caps%2C95&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=ca0d663fed2dd87d4d1d267790b3548d&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola<\/a> is about a knight that trains to fight the dragon. And then in the end the dragon and knight become friends.<\/p>\n<h2>What we used to make the Dragon Watercolor Painting<\/h2>\n<p><em>We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a <a href=\"\/page\/privacy-policy\">small commission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AROIC-Watercolor-Different-Beginners-Children\/dp\/B08C7XF63J?crid=S0IX737KRHTG&#038;keywords=watercolor&#038;qid=1645437689&#038;sprefix=watercolor%2Caps%2C109&#038;sr=8-19&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=14f3f31b35aa2117343f5c58655c16ae&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\">watercolors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Canson-Watercolor-Textured-Charcoal-100510941\/dp\/B09NQY86G1?crid=111E76S15QVCQ&#038;keywords=B004M59O4C&#038;qid=1674932060&#038;sprefix=b004m59o4c%2Caps%2C92&#038;sr=8-2&#038;th=1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=5365d4960634a3b7b7c28b77cb7879bb&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\">watercolor paper<\/a> &#8211; this is great for painting projects<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07GXZP4QX?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=5072b231002932020d71f17c03ba4c1e&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dragon cookie cutter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/anezus-Brushes-Bristle-Washable-Acrylic\/dp\/B07PPKQZ7B?crid=1JKJBK6S3O9RB&#038;keywords=B07PPKQZ7B&#038;qid=1645438229&#038;sprefix=b07ppkqz7b%2Caps%2C54&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=2cc9578e76e03972f1a25d4dd1c7d10d&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\">large paint brush<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting1.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>How we made the Dragon Watercolor Painting<\/h2>\n<p>You can see the steps below that we used to make the Dragon watercolor painting.<\/p>\n<h3>Place the Dragon Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper<\/h3>\n<p>You place the dragon cookie cutter on the watercolor paper. It won&#8217;t matter where you place it cookie cutter.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting2.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Hold the Dragon Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside<\/h3>\n<p>You want to hold the dragon cookie on the top or the sides to keep it in place. While you then use the watercolors to paint inside the cookie cutter.<\/p>\n<p>We often fice holding on the top and some of the side workes best.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting3.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Look the the Dragon on the Paper<\/h3>\n<p>After you finish painting your first dragon you can lift up the cookie cutter and see the dragon that they painted.<\/p>\n<p>Every dragon will look different with the different amount of watercolor paint you use and how well you get into each of the corners of the cookie cutter.<\/p>\n<p>If you are doing this with older kids they can do touch ups on the dragons.<\/p>\n<h3>Keep Painting Dragon<\/h3>\n<p>After you have one dragon painted keep going and add more dragons to the watercolor paper. You can mix it up if you want and do lots of different colors.<\/p>\n<p>Of you can do just one color. It does not matter which you do, but lots of colors are fun.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting4.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And remember that you can overlap dragons or keep them part. And you can fill the whole page with dragons.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting5.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you are doing this with older kids you can let the dragons dry and then use <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crayola-58-7726-Classic-Markers-Assorted\/dp\/B011POF36K?crid=1I9IHS2PQUNPU&#038;keywords=B011POF36K&#038;qid=1645437861&#038;sprefix=b011pof36k%2Caps%2C65&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=e54a15565059bc2d2b16d63feb381545&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" rel=\"noopener\">fine line markers<\/a> to add eyes and mouth to the dragons.<\/p>\n<h2>Final look at our Dragon Watercolor Painting<\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting6.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/2-2024\/dragon-watercolor-painting7.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Watercolor Painting with rainbow color dragons made with a dragon cookie cutter and watercolor paints. A simple painting activity for different ages- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>More Dragon Activities for Kids<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/free-medieval-pack-1-year-aniversary\/\">Medieval Pack<\/a> has a lot of fun dragon activities in it. You will find coloring pages, matching color cards, and more.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/dragon-addition-cards\/\">Roaring Fun Medieval Dragon Addition Cards<\/a> are super fun addition cards that kids can use to work on addition up to 10. They are a great addition center idea for kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/dragon-book-round-up\/\">Dragon Books To Read<\/a> has some fun dragon book suggestions for kids.<\/p>\n<p>Cassie &#8211; 3Dinosaurs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragons are a great mythological theme for kids. And this dragon cookie painting is a great way to make a dragon painting for all ages. You paint inside cookie cutters for this great dragon watercolor painting. This painting project for kids is great for any theme that does a dragon. And you can do this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[705,613],"class_list":["post-68013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","tag-cookie-cutter","tag-watercolor"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"painting"}],"post_tag":[{"value":705,"label":"cookie cutter"},{"value":613,"label":"watercolor"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dragon-watercolor-painting.jpg",600,900,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Cassie","author_link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/cassie\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"painting","slug":"painting","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":189,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":189,"category_description":"","cat_name":"painting","category_nicename":"painting","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":705,"name":"cookie cutter","slug":"cookie-cutter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":708,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":24,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":613,"name":"watercolor","slug":"watercolor","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":649,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":50,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68013"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68237,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68013\/revisions\/68237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}