How to Make a Paper Snake

Try making a decorative paper snake to hang in your room. This easy craft uses simple items: a paper plate, coloring tools and any other crafty bits you might have lying about. Make as many paper snakes as you want - a group of decorated and colorful snakes looks great hanging together in a classroom.

1. 

    Cut off the raised edge of a paper plate.
   Cut off the raised edge of a paper plate.
2. 

    Draw a spiral on the plate.
   Draw a spiral on the plate. Make the spiral about half an inch thick.
3. 

    Decorate with the markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc.
   Decorate with the markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc. Decorate both sides of the spiral. Draw eyes, nose, and mouth in the very center tip of the spiral.
4. 

    Carefully cut out the spiral shape.
   Carefully cut out the spiral shape.
5. Punch a hole right through the eyes.
6. Tie a long string through the holes and hang using a thumb tack, from the ceiling anywhere in the house.

• Color your paper snake in to make it look really interesting!
• Use recycled magazines to help save the environment!
• Make the string long enough to see without straining but short enough so that nobody's tempted to try and pull it down.

• Be careful with the scissors. A responsible person should cut out the snake spiral for young children to decorate.

• Paper plates
• Coloring materials
  • Crayons
  • Markers
  • Paint
  • Colored Pencils
  • Glitter, etc.
• Something to punch a hole, like scissors, a hole puncher, a pencil, etc.
• Long pieces of string
• Thumb tacks
• Scissors