Let’s Make A Paper Chain Snake!

 A hands-on crafting activity for your toddler!

Age Range – 3 – 4 years

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Primary Skills – Fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination

Materials:

• Coloured paper (red, green, dark green, yellow, black, brown)
• Plain paper (if you don’t have coloured paper)
• Paints
• Scissors
• Glue/stapler

Instructions:

• Let’s start by making the body of the snake. You can make either a light green and dark green snake, a green and yellow, a green and black, a yellow and black, or a yellow and brown snake.
• Take your coloured papers of choice. Cut out strips from them that are about 3 to 3.5 inches long, and 1.5 inches wide.
• If using plain paper, cut out the strips as above, and then let your child paint half the number of strips in one colour, and half in the other colour.
• Let’s say you’re making a green and yellow snake. Now, fold a green strip to make a loop, and either glue or staple the ends to hold the circular shape. Then, take a yellow strip, and make it loop around the green loop, and glue/staple its ends together (see image for reference).
• Continue this way with alternating colours to make a chain of loops. The body of the snake is now ready.
• Next, let’s make the snake’s head. Draw a large triangle on a piece of green-coloured paper, and make its edges rounded, not sharp. Cut it out carefully, and help your child to glue it to one end of the chain-link body.
• Similarly, make a small rounded triangle, and glue it to the opposite end of the chain-link body to make the tail.
• Now, it’s time for some quick finger painting! Get out some black and white paints. Have your child dip a finger in the white paint first, and press it onto the snake’s head to make two eyes. Let the paint dry.
• Then, have him dip another finger in the black paint, and make two smaller impressions inside the white parts to complete the look!
• Lastly, let’s make a red tongue. Use the red coloured paper to draw a tongue with an inverted V-shape at one end of it (you know what a snake’s forked tongue looks like!). Cut it out carefully, and let your child stick it on the underside of the snake’s head.

The paper snake is ready!