The Teapot Dragon Unit Study
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Teapots, Dragons and Poetry
Come read the poem of the Teapot Dragon with its crinkly tail and pincer claws. It sticks out its tongue and keeps the tea piping hot.
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 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
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.
Photo Credit: Dragon Quest Chinese Teapot
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The Teapot Dragon is one of the Poems in:
A Child's Garden Of Verses
Dollhouse 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.
Teapot and Dragon Coloring Pages
Color the Teapot Dragon
Photo Credit: Teapot
on WPClipart
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?
Teapot Dragon Words
Learn to Read with the Teapot Dragon
Photo Credit: Green Tea, Plate 351 from A Curious Herbal, Published 1782
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Photo Credit: Teabags
on Wikimedia, Creative Commons
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.
I'm a Little Teapot
Dance and Sing with the Teapot Dragon
I'm a Little Teapot! Presenting Preschool Storytime
I'm a little teapot, short and stout
Here is my handle, here is my spout
When I get all steamed up, hear me shout
Just tip me over and pour me out!
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
Just tip me over and pour me out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Important!
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.
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.
Help the Dragon Learn How to Make a Cup of Tea
The Teapot Dragon wants a cup of Tea but he has forgotten how to make it. Help him find the right words to fill in the blanks and make a delicious cup of tea...
English worksheets: HOW TO MAKE A CUP OF TEA
You can prepare with your students a delicious cup of tea. There is a speaking activity, a vocabulary activity and a reading. (Note: You must join ESL Printables in order to download this worksheet. The site is free to join but there is a bartering system in place.)0 points
Grandma likes to drink tea Worksheet - Teapot with Cup - Twisty Noodle
Teapot with Cup - Grandma likes to drink tea worksheet that you can customize and print for kids.0 points
Color and write about the Japanese Tea Ceremony
abcteach Printable Worksheet: Japan Theme Unit: Color and Write;Tea Ceremony0 points
Teapot Dragon Literacy Bag
Teapot Dragon Book Buddies
Magical Dragon Overnight Bag
Available on Amazon
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 each other? Amy Huntington paints beautiful illustrations for children's books.
Fancy Nancy dresses up as a queen to sip tea with the Teapot Dragon. Fancy Nancy suggests that Dragon Costumes and Queenly crowns make nice school uniforms as well. These links below lead to more tea parties and poetry.
Fancy Nancy dresses up as a queen to sip tea with the Teapot Dragon. Fancy Nancy suggests that Dragon Costumes and Queenly crowns make nice school uniforms as well. These links below lead to more tea parties and poetry.
Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog
Blogging about Teapot Dragons and other Hands-on Learning
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byThe Teapot Dragon is in the Stone Stoup Homeschooling Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for having included the Teapot Dragon in their directory. This directory has now been passed on to Stone Soup Homeschooling.
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TeaLady
Jan 24, 2012 @ 3:49 pm | delete
- Now you are talking about my two favorite things! Tea and Dragons! Awesome!
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efriedman
May 26, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | delete
- What a fun use of kid's love of all things dragon. And thanks for lensrolling to Steam the Black Dragon.
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foovay
Apr 17, 2011 @ 4:14 pm | delete
- Excellent lessons to be learned from a simple little poem. Kids who love dragons will love this - painless learning! Blessed by a Squid Angel.
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Tipi
Apr 3, 2011 @ 6:18 pm | delete
- What a sweet poem and wonderfully presented.
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ElizabethJeanAllen
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- Awesome lens!
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haikuwedding
Jan 7, 2011 @ 7:19 pm | delete
- Serious awesomeness! Never think of Teapot and Dragon will go toghter but you convince me with this incredible lens. Thumbs up and lensrolling
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GreenTeaTime
Nov 7, 2010 @ 7:19 am | delete
- I've just learn a new thing! I've already listen the "I'm a Little Teapot" song and I'm happy to see it in your lens! nice idea!
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scar4
Nov 5, 2010 @ 12:16 am | delete
- Teapot with dragon pattern is the first choice for those who wish an authentic Chinese tea ceremony during their wedding preparations.
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vallain
Sep 1, 2010 @ 3:55 pm | delete
- I remember the teapot dragon poem from long ago. Great idea to feature it.
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eclecticeducation
Jun 20, 2010 @ 12:16 pm | delete
- Cute lens! I love dragons and so do my sons. Lensrolling to my St. George and the Dragon Picture Book Study lens.
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May 4, 2010 @ 3:40 pm | delete
- Goodness as a tea lover and a dragon lover the Teapot Dragon is perfect for me! Just had to lensroll this beautiful lens to my dragon and tea lenses.
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clouda9
Nov 8, 2009 @ 4:51 pm | delete
- This is beautifully done - your love and enthusiasm shines through!
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fanfreluche
Nov 7, 2009 @ 3:09 am | delete
- 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
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- Great lens!
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C-Joy
May 6, 2009 @ 5:15 am | delete
- 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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Apr 26, 2009 @ 12:15 am | delete
- Beautiful, like all of your work
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Frankster
Feb 26, 2009 @ 4:19 pm | delete
- 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
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- Your lenses are always educational and fun.
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Evelyn_Saenz
Dec 13, 2008 @ 5:21 am | in reply to groovyoldlady | delete
- 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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- Great teapots :)
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