Fire Breathing Dragon – DIY Halloween Decor

Start putting together your DIY Halloween Decor! Make this Fire Breathing Dragon the center of your Halloween decorations.

Can your brave knights get past this Fire Breathing Dragon? I never thought my kids could be so enamored with a skeleton. But that was before getting a Dragon Skeleton. Turns out that was just the trick not only to get the kids excited about decorating for Halloween, but now I have a knight running around my house all the time.

Fire Breathing Dragon Supplies

• Dragon skeleton
• Bag of skeleton bones
• Egg signs/cutouts (or make your own out of cardboard)
• Spray paint
• Metallic acrylic paint
• Red tulle

This fire breathing dragon is protecting her eggs from any knights that dare approach her. It also means I’ve been calling my Dragon a girl, her guarding her eggs and all. In order to put together my DIY Halloween dragon scene I needed to start by creating my dragon eggs.

How to Make Your Fire Breathing Dragon

My Halloween dragon eggs are really Easter egg cutouts in disguise. (And it’s not the first time I’ve reused Easter decor for fall projects!)

Painting the dragon eggs is a multi-part process. The first step is to use spray paint to thoroughly cover the eggs. I spray painted each egg a dark brown color and then did a second coat of spray paint in a color closer to my intended finished shade. My metallic green egg got a coat of green spray paint while my pinkish egg got a coat of red spray paint.

When the spray paint was dry I brushed on a layer of metallic acrylic paint. I did at least two coats on each egg, mixing different colors.

Momma dragon is almost ready to guard her eggs. She’s just missing one thing, fire breath.

A piece of red tulle in her mouth gives the great effect of breathing fire.

Now what about all those knights trying to get past her and steal her eggs? Yeah, they aren’t making it very far. There are a few different skeleton bag options available, but I went with the black bones to really give it that charred bone look.

The kids even helped me place some hand bones on the swords to make it look like they died, burned, in action.

There she is, my fire breathing dragon protecting her eggs.

We even played with setting her up in a few different places, from the front porch to the middle of the yard. Littlest has been outside ‘fighting’ her nearly every day, so I would bet she moves around some more before Halloween finally arrives.

She will also be making an appearance in our trunk for a trunk or treat activity (watch for photos of how we arrange that scene on Instagram!)

Looking for more DIY Halloween decor ideas? Try these DIY Pumpkin Terrarium ideas or a Cross Stitch Jack o Lantern.

Thanks to Oriental Trading for providing the Fire Breathing Dragon – DIY Halloween Decor supplies.