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Spring Snail Craft

A cute, colorful craft that your students will love to create for spring!

  • Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

In this easy and inexpensive craft, students create a snail from a paper plate, and then add tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and google-eyes as decoration.


What You Need

  • Pencil
  • Paper plates
  • Assorted colors of tissue paper, cut into 1-inch by 1-inch squares
  • Glue
  • Green construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Googly eyes
  • Black crayons or markers

 

What You Do

  1. Using a pencil, draw a swirl on the paper plates. This will be used as a guide for students to glue tissue paper along.
  2. Have students glue tissue paper squares onto the paper plate. Students should alternate colors and try not to have two of the same colors together.
  3. Cut out a hot-dog shaped piece of green construction paper for the snail’s body.
  4. Glue the green snail's body to the back of the paper plate.
  5. Cut a 5-inch piece of the pipe cleaner, fold it in half, and glue it to the snail's body to create antennae.
  6. Glue a googly eye to the snail’s face and draw on a smile with the crayon or markers!

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