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.

Tongue:

• 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)

Eyes:

• 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