{"id":11822,"date":"2015-10-26T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highdesertmg.wpengine.com\/our-holly-days\/2015\/10\/26\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft-a-fun-fire-safety-tool\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:00:18","slug":"fire-breathing-dragon-craft-a-fun-fire-safety-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.highdesert.com\/our-holly-days\/2015\/10\/26\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft-a-fun-fire-safety-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Breathing Dragon Craft, a Fun Fire Safety Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft\/\">Holly Sosa<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft11.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft11\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><em>This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ChangeYourClock <\/em><em>#CollectiveBias<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost time to fall back on our clocks, which is a perfect time to swap out your smoke detector batteries, as prompted by the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/cbi.as\/tuy-\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Energizer<\/i>\u00ae <\/a><span><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/cbi.as\/tuy-\" rel=\"nofollow\">Change Your Clock Change Your Battery\u2122<\/a> campaign. Here in the High Desert, we take fire safety extremely seriously, as one small spark can ignite a monstrous fire due to the dry climate. My two boys enjoy talking about fire safety and they&#8217;re so adorably serious about our fire drills and rules. With our annual battery change coming up, I thought it would be a great time to refresh our fire safety knowledge with a fun, themed, fire breathing dragon craft to help my kiddos engage with fire safety rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUPPLIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>green plastic or paper cups<\/li>\n<li>red, orange, and yellow streamers<\/li>\n<li>tape<\/li>\n<li>glue<\/li>\n<li>craft puffs<\/li>\n<li>craft eyeballs<\/li>\n<li>scissors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To begin crafting your dragon, you&#8217;ll trim out the bottom of the cup with your scissors.<\/p>\n<p>Next, you&#8217;ll trim several pieces of each color streamer. I used two of each color.<\/p>\n<p>Adhere the streamers, which create your fire, to the inside brim (drinking edge) of your cup using tape or glue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft2.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft2\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft3.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft3\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>Add puffs to the edge of the brim to create a dragon nose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft4.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft4\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft5.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft5\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>On two larger puffs, adhere a craft eyeball on each.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft1.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>One the eyeballs are secured and dry, adhere them to the end of your dragon for big scary eyeballs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft6.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft6\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>Allow everything to dry completely before playing with them.<\/p>\n<p>Once your dragons are dry, you can blow through the bottom of them to create fun streamer fire as if you were breathing fire yourself!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft7.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft7\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft8.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft8\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>My little dudes love these dragons and I love that it starts a dialogue about fire safety while also fostering creativity and inspiring play. One thing families can do to inspire fire safety is to talk with their kids. My boys certainly keep me accountable. They&#8217;re good at reminding me of all kinds of things, am I right mamas? I teach them to follow rules, and they love it when they can remind me to follow the rules too. Make it a rule in your house: When the time changes, so do the batteries in your smoke detectors!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We swap out our batteries for the <em>Energizer\u00ae MAX\u00ae<\/em> 9volt battery, which is the size most smoke alarms require. But most importantly, <em>Energizer\u00ae<\/em> is the battery brand we trust most with our family&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft15.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft15\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft10.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft10\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>Energizer created the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery program 28 years ago because they care about keeping families safe. Throughout this important program, they have donated more than 5 million batteries to help ensure families have working smoke alarms. According to the National Fire Protection Association, 71% of non-functioning smoke alarms had missing, disconnected or dead batteries. The goal of the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/cbi.as\/tuy-\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Energizer\u00ae<\/em> Change Your Clock Change Your Battery<\/a> is to help remind everyone to replace the batteries in their home&#8217;s smoke detectors during the same time they change their clocks for daylight savings to ensure everyone has functioning smoke alarms. Take the necessary action now, today. Buy new batteries for your smoke alarms. Make sure you know where all your smoke detectors are and make sure they&#8217;re working.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft13.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft13\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft14.jpg\" alt=\"fire breathing dragon craft14\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\"><\/p>\n<h2>For additional fire and family safety tips, check out <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Energizer?fref=ts\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Energizer\u00ae<\/em> on Facebook<\/a>, where you can find tons of information and more craft ideas from bloggers like me.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11122233333-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"11122233333\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft\/\">Fire Breathing Dragon Craft, a Fun Fire Safety Tool<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/\">Our Holly Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/ourhollydays.com\/2015\/10\/fire-breathing-dragon-craft\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Fire Breathing Dragon Craft, a Fun Fire Safety Tool\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Holly Sosa This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ChangeYourClock #CollectiveBias It&#8217;s almost time to fall back on our clocks, which is a perfect time to swap out your smoke detector batteries, as prompted by the Energizer\u00ae Change Your Clock Change Your Battery\u2122 campaign. 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