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 

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