Are you looking for a fun activity to celebrate Chinese New Year? You’ll love this lion puppet craft!

To make this adorable puppet, students will cut, glue and paint provided templates before attaching them to popsticks. This will create a three-dimensional puppet with a lion’s head that can be displayed in the classroom, sent home as a Chinese New Year gift, or used as part of interactive play!

This resource includes:

1. Detailed instructions.
2. Template pieces for the head and body.
3. Colourful display banner.

Please ensure that in addition to the printable resources, students have access to popsticks, markers or paints, and crepe paper.

Top Teacher Tips:

1. Students may benefit from the pieces being enlarged to A3.
2. We recommend printing the templates on coloured cardstock; however, if printing on white, allow your students to paint their pieces prior to assembling them.

Completed crafts can be displayed around the included banner!

Be sure to check out our other amazing Chinese New Year resources!