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Springy Spiral Snake 

You've probably made springy coil snakes from paper plates at some time in your life -- I remember making one at camp about 25 years ago (eep, has it been that long already!?)
  

Note:  To make a paper plate version, you just paint the paper plate green (or your choice of snake color).  Then you cut a coil shape from the paper plate, decorate it further as a snake and hang it from the roof.

On this page, I've provided instructions and a paper craft template that makes a similar project to the traditional paper plate coil snake.   You can also check out the Halloween version of the same project.

Materials

  • one sheet of card stock or thin cardboard (old cereal boxes work well) -- I used green card stock so it matched the snake.
  • paper
  • printer
  • scissors
  • glue
  • hole punch
  • string, wool or ribbon

Instructions:

  • Print out the template of choice.
      
  • If using the B&W version, color in the template.
      
  • Glue the template onto a piece of cardstock or thin cardboard.
      
  • Let dry.
      
  • Cut out the outline of the spiral snake.
      
  • Cut along the spiral line to make a springy spiral snake.
      
  • Use a hole punch to punch a hole in the center of the snake (the tip of the tail)
      
  • Thread a piece of string through the hole and tie it on.
      
  • Hang your springy spiral snake!

Templates:

  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.   
       
  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).   

   

Template     color     or     B&W 

   

   

Printable version of these instructions