Bumby Snake

Materials

• Wallpaper samples
• Scissors
• Black crayon
• Googly eyes
• Glue

What To Do

1. Give children the wallpaper samples and safety scissors.
2. Invite the children to cut out a worm or snake shape from the samples.
3. Show the children how to fold the snake accordion style, then unfold it so the snake has ridges.
4. The children can then glue on the googly eyes.

More To Do

More art: Give children shoeboxes and art supplies, and invite them to create a home for their snakes.

Music: Put on some music and invite the children to slither along like snakes.

Science: Invite a snake expert to bring in a snake and some skin that a snake has shed for the children to touch.

Related Books

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash by Steven Kellogg
Outside and inside Snakes Sandra Markle

--Marlin Harding Grimes, IA