Additional Learning Resources for our Novel Study Guide for the Dragon Masters: Saving the Sun Dragon by Tracey West with the Build Your Masterpiece Class Adventures in Egypt. The official Adventures in Egypt is coming soon, and pairs with this novel study.
Tracey West has some great coloring pages available for you to use on her website, and we love to color them while I read the books out loud, along with our Novel Study Guide’s Lesson Plans coloring pages for each chapter. Author Spotlight Coming Soon!
Additional Books to read:
Dragon Masters Saving the Sun Dragon (Book 2) by Tracey West
Pete's Dragon by Little Golden books
See Inside Castles by Usborne
Where are the Great Pyramids by Dorothy Hoobler (where is series)
Living in Egypt by Chloe Perkins
Mummies in the Morning (secret of the pyramids) by Mary Pope Osborne
Who Built the Pyramid by Meredith Hooper
We're Sailing Down the Nile by Laurie Kreb
Mummies and Pyramids by Usborne
Inspired Dragon Activities/Recipes
Extra Coloring Pages for Worm, the Earth Dragon, and Kepri the Sun Dragon from Traceywest.com
Recipes:
Drinks:
Lemonade Popsicles | Courtney's Sweets
Sunny Pineapple Punch | Simple and Seasonal
Cookies:
Dragon Cookies - for direction to our No-Chill Sugar Cookie Recipe, check out this post here.
Make Dragon Eggs: Krispy Easter Eggs | A Pioneer Woman
Make Dragon Master Playdough
While reading each book, make a fresh batch of playdough, and color it with the corresponding colors!
Basic Play-dough Recipe
This recipe calls for cooking your play dough on the stove top.
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
2 TBSP of Cream of Tarter
1 TBSP of Veg Oil
1 Cup of Water
For each Dragon's Colors, see below for coloring directions
Mix your dry ingredients together on the pan. Mix your water with the food coloring and then add in your veg oil.
Add your wet ingredients to your dry, on the hot pan, mixing until the dough cooks and starts to combine.
Kepri the Sun Dragon's Play-dough Recipe:
Batch #1: Add Yellow Food Coloring for one yellow batch of playdough
Batch #2: Add Glitter for a batch of glitter + White playdough
Worm the Earth Dragon's Play-dough Recipe (we learn more about Worm in book 1!)
Batch #1: Add Cocoa Powder for one batch of Brown Playdough
Batch #2: Add Yellow Gel Food Coloring for one batch of yellow playdough
Shu the Water Dragon's Play-dough Recipe (we learn more about Shu in book 3!)
Batch #1: Add Blue Food Coloring
Batch #2:Add Glitter for sparkling white
Vulcan the Fire Dragon's Play-dough Recipe (we learn more about Vulcan in Book 4!)
Batch #1: Add Red Food Coloring
Batch #2: Add Yellow Food Coloring + Glitter