We made this snail craft today to go along with our creepy crawlies theme. They are super easy to make and kids get to practice fine motor skills as they cut and roll the paper to make the snails!
What You’ll Need:
- Glue sticks
- Scissors
- Markers
- Construction Paper
Snail Outline PDF
Prep:
- Pre-cut the paper into snail shapes snails and draw an outline of a leaf. You can use any color for the snails. The snail shape is a strip of paper, with the eye shape cut out on one end. Here is a Snail Template you can use to draw the snail outline.
- Draw leaves on pieces of green construction paper
- Place paper snail templates, and leaf templates out with glue and scissors.
Engagement
- First kids decorated the paper snail template while they are still flat, using markers.
- Next, they rolled up the snails, starting from the end opposite from the eyes.
- Finally, kids cut out and decorate a paper leaf, then glue their snail onto it.
It’s such a fun activity. I think we will end up making them all week long!
In my experience, the kids really liked decorating and rolling up the shells to make their snails. A few of them made more than one. We ended up using all of them to decorate our Summer bulletin board!
Later on, I made some really tiny paper snails that were super adorable. You can make smaller versions of the snails and pair the tiny snails with a larger snail to make a whole snail family!
The idea for this snail craft came from: Snail Project by ArtforYoungChildren.blogspot.com
Activities to Go Along With This Snail Craft
Here is a snail coloring page and reading & writing activity for beginning readers & writers to go along with the craft.
Kids can color the snail picture and read the sentences to learn about snails. Then they can write one thing that they learned. Here is the link: Snail Coloring Page by PreschoolMom.com
Click here or on the thumbnail to the right to view and print the Snail Coloring Page (.pdf)
So cute!