Snake
Crafts and Activities for Kids
How to Make Crafts and Activities Relating to Snakes
Bubble Wrap Print Paper Snake Craft for Kids
What you will need:
Card stock (Heavy Paper)
Bubble Wrap with small bubbles
Acrylic Paint
Red Paper
Black Marker
Scissors
One-inch Paint Brush
How to make the Bubble Wrap Snake Craft:
1. Cut the biggest circle you can from the card stock. Cut a piece of bubble wrap the same size as the circle. You may want to experiment with different color combinations so make more than one circle. You can use the spiral snake pattern if you prefer. Just print it out on card stock (Heavy Paper) and then cut bubble wrap to match the size of the pattern.
2. Squirt paint into a container and fill your brush or paint roller with paint.
3. Spread the paint over the bumpy side of the bubble wrap. Cover only the top of the bubbles with the paint. Add a lighter color for accents.
4. Place the painted side of the bubble wrap on the pattern paper and press down on the bubble wrap to press the paint onto the paper.
5. Slowly peel the bubble wrap off the pattern paper and let the paint dry.
6. You can add another accent color over the first color after the first colored has dried. Paint the accent color lightly and randomly over the bubble wrap, and then press it over the first bubble wrap print. You can also try just using both colors of paint on the bubble wrap.
7. When the paint is dry cut out the snake out, and add a red snake tongue and eyes.
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Tie
Snake Craft for Kids
These snakes are easy and inexpensive to make.
And best of all they are fun to play with.
What you will
need: Old ties, polyfil stuffing, wiggly eyes, glue, wire (from
a hanger)
How to make:
1. If you would like your snake to be bendable, straighten out
a wire hanger or use some other type of wire. Make sure you fold down
the ends of the wire with some needle nose pliers so that the edges
are very smooth. Insert the hanger into the tie.
2. Stuff the tie with polyfil from each end of the snake.
3. Glue or sew the tail end of the snake closed.
4. Push some stuffing up into the point of the snake's head (the wider
end of the tie). Glue the end closed and glue on some wiggly
eyes to finish.
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Comments About this Craft:
We made the "Tie Snake Craft" with our kids during VBS a couple of years ago. Everyone loved the Tie Snakes, but it's definitely a craft that you'll need extra helpers for. Many of the kids had a difficult time stuffing the ties, and the adults ended up even stitching/gluing places on the tie later on to keep them together. We bought our ties and a local thrift store where they let you stuff a paper bag full of clothes for $2, and the wire coat hangers were easy to come by too! Along with the googly eyes, the kids added felt tongues. This is a really cool craft, just be prepared to give your snakes extra time and patience! They make great decorations too! ;)
We made the "Paper Spiral Snakes" too, but let the kids cut their circles out of craft foam and then decorated them with gems, paint and markers. They were pretty neat, and also made cool decorations hanging down around our foyer and fellowship hall! ~Randi
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Snake
Bracelet Craft for Kids
What
you will need: Card stock, crayons or markers, and tape.
How to make: Print out the pattern onto card stock, color the snakes, cut them out and tape them around
your wrist.
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Snake Pattern Color Sheet
Learn
about patterns. Have your child color the snake using a certain pattern.
Snake pattern. This worksheet comes from the ABC, I Believe lessons. You can find even more animal worksheets and Bible lessons to go along with them on the ABC, I Believe lessons.
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Snake
Puzzle
This pattern can be used to review just about anything you happen
to be studying. Children will love this activity because they can
get down on the floor and move around while making a great big snake.
By writing the problem on one piece and the answer on another piece,
your child will have fun matching up the correct pieces and making
a long snake. You can use addition, subtraction or multiplication
facts, or a Bible verse. You can reduce the pattern and practice spelling
words by writing one letter on each piece. Your child puts the pieces
together to spell out a word.
You can also
laminate the pieces so that you can use a dry erase marker and change
the letters to spell new words, instead of making all new pieces.
You can also
work on reading skills. Make up sentences with words your child is
studying. Write one word on each snake puzzle piece. Read the sentence
to your child and have him put the snake together according to the
sentence you just read.
You can also
use this snake for anything that your child is studying that has an
order such as numbers, letters, books of the Bible, counting by certain
numbers, alphabetizing, etc.
How to make:
Before class print out the snake
pattern (Available to members only.) and cut the snakes body shapes from different colors
of construction paper. Line up the body parts as shown in the picture.
If you are reviewing math facts write the problem on one end of a
snake pattern and then the answer on the corresponding end of the
next snake pattern. On the same piece that you wrote the first answer,
write the next problem on the other end. So you will have a problem
and an answer on each puzzle piece, like Dominoes.
Great, Big,
Sidewalk, Snake Review - If you have a child who has a hard time
sitting still, this is a great way to review facts and get a little
exercise at the same time. Go outside and draw a giant snake on your
drive way or sidewalk with chalk. Make the snake wide enough to walk
on.
Tell your child
that the snake wants to eat him up. Have him stand at the head of
the snake. If he answers a question correctly, he gets to move into
the snake. You can make up the amount of steps he can take into the
snake each time he answers correctly. The snake only likes correct
answers. If he answers wrong, the snake will spit him out and he has
to start all over again. When your child answers correctly, make a
slurping sound like the snake is eating him. If he answers wrong make
a sound like the snake is spitting him out or he tastes bad so he
knows that his answer is wrong and he has to start all over again.
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Snake
Shapes Activity Worksheet for Preschool Children
Make a pipe cleaner snake out of two different colors of pipe
cleaners. Print out the snake
shape worksheet and help your child form the different shapes
on the work sheet. This worksheet comes from the ABC, I Believe lessons. You can find even more animal worksheets and Bible lessons to go along with them on the ABC, I Believe lessons.
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Scrunchie
Snakes and Lizards Craft for Kids with Video Instructions
What
you will need: material, 12" pipe cleaner, hot melt glue
gun, eyes, pink and red fun foam, felt for legs (optional), 30" string
How to make:
1. Cut a piece of material 27" x 3" for the snake
or 27" x 4" for the lizard.
2. Cut
out a rectangle shape for the mouth 2 1/4" x 1 1/4" from pink fun foam. If you are making the lizard, cut 4 legs from a piece
of felt.
3. Tie
a knot at the end of one end of the string and attach it
to one end of the material either by sewing
it on or pinning it on. The string will help you turn the
material right side out once you have finished sewing it.
4. Fold
the material long ways right sides together. Place the string
so it runs down the inside of the material. It should be
long enough to stick out the other end. Show Me How.
5. Sew
up the long end of the material leaving the ends open.
6. To
turn the material inside out push the pin into the tube you just sewed while pulling on the string from the other end. You will be pulling the p9in through the tube turning the material right side out. When you have the material
completely turn inside out, unpin the string. Show Me How.
7. Fold
down one end of a pipe cleaner about 1/4' (This will help
it slide better into the snake body.) Insert it into the
snake body all the way to the opposite end, scrunching up the material as you go. Glue the end of the
pipe cleaner to the end of the material. Fold over the
material and glue again. This will be the tail end.
8. Pull the pipe cleaner out the opposite end about 1" by scrunching up the material. Fold the material on this end in about 1".
9. Now
you are ready to insert the mouth. Poke a small hole in the
center of the rectangle mouth piece just so the pipe cleaner will fit through.
Fold the mouth in half and insert it into the mouth end of the
snake, making sure the pipe cleaner goes through
the tiny hole. Pull the pipe cleaner through. Fold the end of the pipe cleaner over twice so that it cannot pull back
through the hole. Glue the mouth piece
in place by putting some glue between the mouth and the material. Show Me How.
10. Cut out a tongue from red fun foam and glue inside the mouth. Glue on the eyes. Show Me How .
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Paper
Chain Pattern Snake Craft for Kids
Cut
strips from different colors of construction paper. In class have
the children make paper chain snakes.
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Pipe
Cleaner Snake Craft for Kids
Provide different colors of pipe cleaners. Let the children use
their imagination to make a snake. You can also glue on wiggly eyes
using a hot melt glue gun for them when they are done.
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Braided
Snake Craft for Kids
Older children will enjoy making this craft. Cut pieces of material into strips of about one yard by three inches. Cut the strips so that they are tapered at one end. Place three strips together and tie them together at the tapered end. This will be the tail end. To make it easier to braid, secure the knotted end to a table or chair with tape. Or pair up the children and have them take turns holding the tail of their partner's snake and braiding. Show your children how to braid the three strips together. When they are finished tie two of the strips together at the end. Wrap the end of the third piece around the knot and tuck in the edges to make a face. Use a tiny rubber band to secure the head. Use another small rubber band to secure the tail end. Glue on wiggly eyes and a tongue.
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Paper
Spiral Snake Craft for Kids
Print out the pattern or cut out a circle shape from a piece of paper. Color the snake
pattern or the circle which ever you are using. Cut out the pattern
or cut the circle shape. Start cutting around the edge of the circle
in a spiral fashion making your cut smaller and smaller towards
the middle of the circle. These snakes look great hanging from the
ceiling. The skinnier you make the snake the longer it will be.
These are fun to make and use as decorations for any age.
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Practice
Printing and Writing the Letter "K" for King Snake
This worksheet comes from the ABC, I Believe lessons. Children practice writing the letter K in print or cursive, or write the complete Bible verse in cursive or print, or print the word "king snake". If you would like more information about these lessons, go to the ABC, I Believe Introduction Page. You can even print out a free sample lesson. These lessons are great for home school use.
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Paul Bitten by a Snake Craft
Make a snake with plastic bottle caps from soft drink products and two corks for the head and tail. Drill a hole in the center of each cap and the corks. String red plastic cord through one small cork then 25 plastic caps per snake and end with the other small cork. Tie off at the tail end. Leave some of the cord hanging out for the tongue on the other end. I spray painted the caps green. When it dried I put wiggly eyes on the tongue at the head end. Also, if you want to, you can assemble the first two caps open side to open side and put a couple of beans in it, then hot glue them together. This way the snake rattles. We used this craft for VBS when Paul was bitten by the viper. The 5th and 6th graders enjoyed making their snakes and painting them. Connie
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