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.
Steps
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Cut off the raised edge of a paper plate.
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Draw a spiral on the plate.
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Decorate with the markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc.
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Carefully cut out the spiral shape.
- Punch a hole right through the eyes.
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Tie a long string through the holes and hang using a thumb tack, from the ceiling anywhere in the house.
Tips
- 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.
Warnings
- Be careful with the scissors. A responsible person should cut out the snake spiral for young children to decorate.
Things You'll Need
- 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