Teapots, Dragons and Poetry
The Teapot Dragon is a poem that takes a child from reality to imagination. Start with The Teapot Dragon poem and explore imagery through words. Use those words to describe experiments with temperature, tastes of various teas, and learn about cultures around the world who drink tea.
Pour the tea into the Dragon's Teapot and write some dragon poetry.
The Teapot Dragon Table of Contents
Learn about the Teapot Dragon
- The Teapot Dragon
- Teapot Dragon Words
- Teapot Dragon Taste Testing
- Puff the Magic Dragon
- A Teapot Dragon for Tea Time!
- Dragon Cookies for Chinese New Year's
- The Teapot Dragon
- Teapot Dragon Literacy Bag
- The Teapot Dragon is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
- Leave a message for the Teapot Dragon
- WebRings that the Teapot Dragon has joined
- The Teapot Dragon on the Isle of Squid
The Teapot Dragon
by Rupert Sargent Holland
There's a dragon on our teapot,
With a long and crinkly tail,
His claws are like a pincer-bug,
His wings are like a sail.
His tongue is always sticking out,
And so I used to think
He must be very hungry, or
He wanted tea to drink.
But once when Mother wasn't round
I dipped my fingers in,
And when I pulled them out I found
I'd blistered all the skin.
Now when I see the dragon crawl
Around our china pot,
I know he's burned his tongue because
The water is so hot.
The Teapot Dragon is one of the Poems in:
A Child's Garden Of Verses
Pour a cup of tea and read the poem of The Teapot Dragon.
I wonder what picture is painted on the Teapot Dragon's Teapot? Below you will find outlines of teapots for children to draw their own ideas of just what the Teapot Dragon looks like to them.
A Child's Garden Of Verses A Collection Of Scriptures, Prayers & Poems
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Teapot and Dragon Coloring Pages
Color the Teapot Dragon
Color a picture of a dragon and a teapot. Glue the dragon to the teapot.
Write a poem about the Teapot Dragon on the other side or make multiple teapot shaped pages and turn it into a book. It might tell a story of the Teapot Dragon.
- Teapot Outline
- Color a teapot.
- Dragon Outline
- Color a Dragon.
Tales of Dragons with or without their Teapots
Dragon and Teapot Stories
A Very Rare Imperial Cinnabar Lacquer Nine-Dragon Portable Tea-Ceremony Chest (Detail)
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Pour a cup of tea from the teapot and read tales of dragons.
Reading to children helps to develop their imaginations and increase their vocabulary. After reading a story talk about what might have happened before or after the story. What might have happened to the other characters?
Help the children to make up their own stories and poems about the Teapot Dragon.
Dragon Teapots
Dragon on a Teapot
Photo Credit: Asian Still Life of Dragon Tea Pot and fruit
Original painting by artist Susan Martin Spar
This beautiful painting of a Dragon Teapot was painted by Susan Martin Spar. She gets her inspiration from Dutch and Renaissance paintings on display at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York City. She now lives in Washington State where she paints and sells her work.
Now you can own your own Dragon Teapot. What tales will your Teapot Dragon tell?
Dragon Teapot & Mugs
- Dragon Teapot & Mugs
- How do you make a dragon smoke? Add Tea! Check out our stoneware Dragon Teapot and coordinating mugs. Hand crafted in the UK; food safe and quite sturdy...
Teapot Dragon Words
Learn to Read with the Teapot Dragon
The Teapot Dragon can help the children learn vocabulary or sight words. Write words that they are learning on teabags. Put them in the Teapot. The children pretend to be Dragons and pull out the teabags and read the words. Put in only about 5 teabags at a time and change the words regularly.
Variation: Each child pulls a teabag out of the teapot and puts it in their teacup. After each one has had a turn they take turns reading the kind of tea they are drinking ie: read the word on their teabag.
If you find that the teabags are getting too tangled, try writing the words on tea leaves. They will last even longer if they are laminated.
40 Sensational Sight Word Games: Quick & Easy Games and Reproducibles That Reinforce the Top 100 Sight Words That Are Key to Reading Success
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Fisher-Price Musical Tea Set
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I'm a Little Teapot
Dance and Sing with the Teapot Dragon
I'm a little teapot, short and stout
Here is my handle [one hand on hip], here is my spout [other arm out straight]
When I get all steamed up, hear me shout
Just tip me over and pour me out!
[as song ends, lean over and tip arm out like a spout]
I'm a clever teapot, yes it's true
Here's an example of what I can do
I can change my handle to my spout [switch arm positions and repeat tipping motion]
Just tip me over and pour me out.
I'm A Little Teapot
From the Album Puff The Magic Dragon - 26 Kiddies' Favourites
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I'm a Little Teapot
I'm a Little Teapot has the familiar tune with the familiar lyrics and fun twist of new lyrics.
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I'm a Little Teapot! Presenting Preschool Storytime
This comprehensive resource to the best picture books, nonfiction, nursery rhymes, fingerplays, action rhymes, and craft ideas for preschool storytime is ideal for children's librarians, preschool and primary teachers, and parents.
It contains references to 1,000 beloved books for children ages 3 to 5, along with the complete text for 500 action rhymes. Practical program planning and presentation tips, an extensive listing of further resources, and a first line index to the rhymes provide invaluable solutions for an old dilemma-how to keep preschoolers' attention long enough to enjoy and make storytime worthwhile for all.
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Teapot Dragon Taste Testing
The Scientific Tea Party
Make several pots of Tea.
Have children smell, feel the temperature and then taste each kind of tea.
Make a graph and vote on your favorite flavor. by putting a dragon sticker under the name of your favorite tea.
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Celestial Seasonings Fruit Tea Sampler (5 Flavors), 18-Count Tea Bags (Pack of 6) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]
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Dragons Stickers (Pocket-Size Sticker Collections)
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Puff the Magic Dragon
The Teapot Dragon meets Puff
Teapot Dragon for Tea Time
Share your Tea with the Teapot Dragon
The Teapot Dragon came over for tea. He likes to have stories and poems read to him before, during and after Tea Time.
Melissa & Doug Dragon - Plush
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A Teapot Dragon for Tea Time!
The Teapot Dragon will keep your tea piping hot!
Photo Credit: Teapot Dragon
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
With your own Dragon Teapot you can make up stories of what your Teapot Dragon is up to.
Time to get your own Teapot Dragon and set the table for a tea party.
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Dragon Cookies for Chinese New Year's
Dragon Cookies beside the Teapot
Followers of Che-Cheh's blog also suggested adding a red dot or flame to the dragon's mouth. Another suggested star candies for eyes.
Put out a plate of Dragon Cookies beside the Teapot and celebrate the Chinese New Year.
- Che-Cheh - Chinese New Year Delight: Dragon Cookies
- When it comes to Chinese New Year's biscuits, dragon cookies are a must. Che-Cheh loves dragon cookies because of their milky taste and also that they look like cute little dragons.
Ingredients:
150g Planta margarine
150g icing sugar
2 egg yolks
1 egg white
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
350g cornflour (sifted)
30g milk powder (sifted)
60g plain flour (sifted)
Directions:
1. Beat Planta margarine, icing sugar, egg yolks, egg white and vanilla essence until creamy.
2. Then slowly stir in cornflour, milk powder and plain flour. Mix well.
3. Fill batter into piping mold and press out 'S' patterns on baking tray.
4. Bake at 160 degree C for 15 minutes.
The Teapot Dragon
There's a dragon on our teapot,
With a long and crinkly tail,
His claws are like a pincer-bug,
His wings are like a sail.
His tongue is always sticking out,
And so I used to think
He must be very hungry, or
He wanted tea to drink.
But once when Mother wasn't round
I dipped my fingers in,
And when I pulled them out I found
I'd blistered all the skin.
Now when I see the dragon crawl
Around our china pot,
I know he's burned his tongue because
The water is so hot.
Teapot Dragon Literacy Bag
Teapot Dragon Book Buddies
Start with a fictional book, a non-fiction book, a plush dragon and a teapot. Now put them all in the Literacy Bags with a journal to record the dragon's adventures. Take home literacy bags take the place of homework. Children read the stories with their families and choose a couple of activities to do that are related to the poem of the Teapot Dragon. The suggested activities should relate to skills that have already been taught to the children.
As they read about dragons and interact with the items in the bag, the children write in the journal about the Teapot Dragon's adventures in the Teapot Dragon Journal.
Once back to school the children get to share their activities and when another child takes out this literacy bag, he or she will get to read all of the adventures that the Teapot Dragon had while visiting the other children's homes.
Children will be begging to take home their homework.
More about Tea Parties and Poetry
The Teapot Dragon's Favorite Lenses
The dragon and the queen invite children to invent stories to tell their tale. What will they do when they finish their tea? Are they friends and how did they get to know eachother? Amy Huntington paints beautiful illustrations for children's books.
Photo Credit: Queen drinking tea with a dragon
by Amy Huntington.
These links below lead to more tea parties and poetry.
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Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog
Blogging about Teapot Dragons and other Hands-on Learning
Photo Credit: TDragon Teapot
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byThe Teapot Dragon is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for including the Teapot Dragon in their Online Unit Study Directory.
- Internet Directory of Unit Studies
- The Four Wheelers Internet Directory of Unit Studies contains a list, roughly arranged by subject, of links to unit studies that are published on the Internet.
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- clouda9 clouda9 Nov 8, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
- This is beautifully done - your love and enthusiasm shines through!
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- fanfreluche fanfreluche Nov 7, 2009 @ 3:09 am
- Wonderful lens!! Interesting, well laid-out. This poem is also in "Under the Tent of the Sky" book (it's out of print). It's a book about animal poems. Been looking for that book in good condition for a while.
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- JenOfChicago JenOfChicago Jun 4, 2009 @ 12:59 pm
- Great lens!
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- C-Joy C-Joy May 6, 2009 @ 5:15 am
- Thanks for sharing that with me! My students love having tea when they come in from recess & I know they'll love this poem :)
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- susannaduffy susannaduffy Apr 26, 2009 @ 12:15 am
- Beautiful, like all of your work
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- Frankster Frankster Feb 26, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
- Another of your great lenses. I love dragons and this hits the spot just like a good cup o' tea. 5 stars and a favorite. I'm already a big FAN! Bear hugs, Frankster aka Bearmeister aka Cat-Woman
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Jan 5, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
- Your lenses are always educational and fun.
5*
Lizzy
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Dec 13, 2008 @ 5:21 am | in reply to groovyoldlady
- Thanks for the reminder. I have always found that saying very funny. I will be sure to watch out for the Teapot Dragon
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- spirituality spirituality Dec 9, 2008 @ 8:23 am
- Great teapots :)
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- AndyPo AndyPo Dec 9, 2008 @ 5:01 am
- Great lens
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- groovyoldlady groovyoldlady Dec 8, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
- Just today I saw a bumper sticker that something like (and I won't swear to the exact words): "Never argue with a dragon, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!"
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- ArtByLinda ArtByLinda Dec 4, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
- I always love your lenses, so much fun! :)
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- TeaLady TeaLady Dec 4, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
- I collect dragons and I collect tea pots, but I have never had a dragon tea pot, nor have I heard this wonderful poem!! I'm very happy to have this lens in the Time for Tea Group!
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Dec 4, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
- Welcome to the Jewels of Awe poetry group!
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- JustBon-Crochet-Designs JustBon-Crochet-Designs Dec 4, 2008 @ 10:23 am
- This poem is new to me, but I'm very familiar with Puff the Magic Dragon. Great lens!
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- WhiteOak50 WhiteOak50 Dec 4, 2008 @ 6:35 am
- This is a unique lens. I love the dragon teapot and never seen one before this one. Thank you for a beautiful share this morning.
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- Jimmie Jimmie Dec 4, 2008 @ 2:12 am
- I wasn't familiar with that poem. Quite cute!
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- nightbear nightbear Dec 3, 2008 @ 12:57 am
- My Mother had a teapot dragon and she left it to me. I love it and keep it in my china cabinet. great lens. thank you
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- fotolady49 fotolady49 Dec 2, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
- Cute lens .... children and many adults are fascinated with dragons and dragon tales...
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Dec 2, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
- What an awesome lens! That teapot is amazing!
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- Pantherart Pantherart Dec 2, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
- Lovely lens I love the Puff The Magic Dragon song
Meet the Author of the Teapot Dragon Lens
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