DLTK's Crafts for Kids 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