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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Paper Chain Snake

This is a fun, simple craft for all ages (even daddy has fun trying to make the longest snake).  It's also a good project for practicing making patterns.

Materials

• construction paper (2 or 3 colors)
• small scrap of red construction paper
• scissors
• scotch tape or glue
• wiggly eyes (optional)
• black marker

Instructions:

• Cut about 16 strips of construction paper 2 inches wide and 10 inches long 
   
• Decide what type of pattern you want to make.  We made a green, green, yellow, green, green, yellow... pattern for ours.
   
• Make your first strip of construction paper into a ring and tape or glue it together
    
• Slide your next strip of construction paper through the ring and tape or glue it into a ring
   
• Repeat the process until you have a long chain of construction paper rings.
    

• Cut a tongue shape from red construction paper
     
• Fold a small tab at the end and glue it onto the head (the front construction paper ring)
    

• Glue on wiggly eyes or draw eyes on with a marker
     
• We cut eyes out of red construction paper and drew an eye slit in the middle of each with a black marker