DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Numbers Snakes Paper Craft

This is a simple cut and paste paper craft good "just for fun", number practice, a reptiles theme, or an animals theme.  There are four different numbers snakes available:

Count by Ones:  Nicky the Numbers Snake

Count by Twos:  Two-Steppin' Tommy

Count by Fives:  Five Fingered Freddy

Count by Tens:  Chuck

Why does Chuck count by tens you ask?  I don't know, you'd have to ask Chuck!

Materials:

• something to color with if using the B&W version,
• scissors,
• glue,
• paper.
• You can use brass fasteners ("brads") instead of glue to attach the pieces if you want it to be moveable. Keep in mind though that you'll need a lot of brass tacks to do the entire thing and that they can be hard for young fingers to manipulate...  You might want to just do the head and rattler and use glue for the rest.

Instructions:

• Print out the craft template of choice.
• Color (if using the black and white version of the craft) and cut out the template pieces.
• Glue the snake together in numerical order with the head at the front and the rattler at the back.  You can make him one long straight snake or a wiggly snake -- whichever you prefer!

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).

Count by Ones:  Nicky the Numbers Snake

Template (head, #1, #2)     (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#3, #4, #5)          (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#6, #7, #8)          (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#9, #10, rattler)   (color)   or   (B&W)

Count by Twos:  Two-Steppin' Tommy

Template (head, #2, #4)       (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#6, #8, #10)           (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#12, #14, #16)      (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#18, #20, rattler)   (color)   or   (B&W)

Count by Fives:  Five Fingered Freddy

Template (head, #5, #10)     (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#15, #20, #25)      (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#30, #35, #40)      (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#45, #50, rattler)   (color)   or   (B&W)

Count by Tens:  Chuck

Template (head, #10, #20)    (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#30, #40, #50)        (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#60, #70, #80)       (color)   or   (B&W)

Template (#90, #100, rattler)  (color)   or   (B&W)

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