Sssslithering snakes are interesting reptiles of the animal kingdom. There are more than 3,000 species that come in different colors and sizes. While I’d be hesitant to let a real snake slither around my house, these fun snake crafts make great alternatives for your reptile-loving kiddos. Here are 15 of my favorite snake crafts for preschool & up!
1. Popsicle Stick Snakes
Here’s a simple snake craft for kids that requires very few materials. All you need is a jumbo popsicle stick, red felt for the snake tongue, googly eyes, and glue. You can let your kids decide what colorful snake design they want to make!
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2. Wiggly Pasta Snakes
Threading pasta through pipe cleaners to make this cute snake craft can be good practice for fine motor skills. They can add a shell-shaped pasta for the snakehead, googly eyes, a red felt tongue, and different colors of paint to complete.
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3. Paper Straw Bendy Snake
This pipe cleaner snake craft is similar to the previous one. Except instead of threading pasta, your kids would be threading cut paper straws. This craft also uses cardstock paper for the head and tongue, in addition to googly eyes.
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4. Easy Paper Snake
This craft is a good test of your kids’ ability to follow instructions. They can watch the video to learn exactly how to fold paper to make the snake’s body shape. Don’t forget to add the tongue, eyes, and nose!
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5. Twisty Snake
You can make these twisty paper snakes using the printable template in the link below. After cutting out the shape, add some circle-shaped stickers to decorate and then twist the body into a figure 8 shape.
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6. Painted Paper Spiral Snake
You can let your kid’s creativity go wild with this craft! Your kids can trace a bowl and draw a spiral snake pattern on a piece of paper. After cutting out the snake, they can use paint markers to create a geometric snake design.
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7. Painted Paper Snake
Here’s another painting craft. They can trace a snake shape on paper and add a coat of paint. After letting the painted snake dry, they can cut it out, and then add googly eyes and felt pieces for the skin and tongue.
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8. Heart-Shape Paper Snake
With Valentine’s Day approaching, this might be the cutest snake craft to try out! Your kids can work on their motor skills as they cut up the heart shapes and glue all of the pieces together.
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9. Paper Plate Snake
You can cut up paper plates into a spiral shape to create snake bodies. Then, you can let your kids glue different colored pieces of tissue paper to their snakes to create unique snakeskin patterns. Add a tongue and eyes to complete the craft!
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10. Snake Puppet
The best part about this craft is the imaginative play that can follow! You can make these by cutting a raisin box and taping on colored paper for the snake’s skin, eyes, teeth, and tongue. Your kids can use their completed crafts as puppets!
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11. Snake Finger Puppet
Here are more puppet snakes! You can print colored templates from the link below and have your kids glue parts of the paper together to create the 3D head and finger space. Or, you can print a blank template and have your kids color it in themselves!
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12. Recycled Bread Clips Snake
Using the same template from the previous craft, you can also create this stylish snake embellished with bread clips. This craft involves making a cardboard cutout of the template, following the gluing instructions and then adding the bread clips.
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13. Snake Bookmark
What could pair well with the couple of snake books you have on your shelves? Perhaps a homemade snake bookmark? This bookmark is made of craft foam, sticky foam letters, fun googly eyes, and glue. Your kids could decorate them by spelling out their names.
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14. Easter Rattle Snake
If you load up this plastic snake craft with dried beans, it will produce rattling sounds when you are playing with it. You can make this by threading rope through half pieces of plastic Easter eggs that have had holes drilled into them.
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15. Cork Snake
Here’s a cool snake toy that’s best suited to older learners because they must use a mending needle to thread string through cork pieces. After it’s complete, you can watch them drag around their new pet snake!
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