Have you ever wondered how to make paper snails? Well today we can help you with our new and colourful 3D PAPER SNAIL CRAFT. This is a great snail craft for kids because it’s easy to make with the free printable snail craft template and you can play and learn with them when you’re finished!
We’ve called this paper craft ‘Stacking Snails’ because the snail’s shell is made of three chunky parts which you can stack together. It’s fun to make a bunch of snails and mix and match and swap their shells around.
This snail craft idea’s special shell also gives kids the opportunity to learn about ordering and sorting sizes, heights and colours!
Are you ready to make, play and learn with our fun 3D Stacking Snails? Scroll on down to see how to make them and to get your free snail template.
We love how chunky this snail craft is. It’s perfect for little hands! If your little ones love snails as much as we do why not team it up with our Shake Painted Rock Snails too? They are much smaller but still super fun to play with!
When you’re able to get outside and look at some real snails you might want to have a go at Snail Racing. It’s a fun way to study these amazing creatures! If you want to learn even more about snails have a look at Kiddy House they’ve got some great info for kids.
3D Paper Snail Craft For Kids Tutorial
Stacking Snail Craft Supplies:
- Free Printable Snail Craft Template (Click the pink link towards the end of this post to get yours.)
- Coloured Card or Thick Paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Marker Pens
- Glue
How To Make A Paper Snail Craft You Can Play With
1 – Download and print the free snail craft template. (Click the pink link towards the end of this post to get yours.)
2 – Trace around the snail pattern onto coloured cardstock or thick paper. It’s fun to make the snail’s body and three shell parts in different colours.
3 – Fold along the dotted line of shell piece 1 and cut short lines up towards the folds to make little tabs.
4 – Roll up shell piece 1 to make a cylinder and glue it.
5 – Fold the tabs of snail shell piece 1 under and glue them towards the back of the snail’s body.
6 – Roll up and glue shell pieces 2 and 3 into cylinders too.
7 – Draw pupils onto the snails eyes and glue the eye stems and eyes into place on the snail’s head.
8 – Draw a happy smile.
9 – Fold the snail’s head upwards and pop shell pieces 2 and 3 into shell piece 1. Now your paper snail craft is ready to be played with!
Click here to get your free printable Stacking Snail Craft Template.
You can print the instructions only below. (You need to click the pink link above to get your printable craft templates.)
You can print the snail craft instructions below.
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3D Paper Snail Craft
Make a fun paper snail you can play with. Stack his shell and mix and match with other snails!
Materials
- Free Printable Snail Craft Template
- Coloured Card or Thick Paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Marker Pens
- Glue
Instructions
- Download and print the free snail craft template.
- Trace around the snail pattern onto coloured cardstock or thick paper. It’s fun to make the snail’s body and three shell parts in different colours.
- Fold along the dotted line of shell piece 1 and cut short lines up towards the folds to make little tabs.
- Roll up shell piece 1 to make a cylinder and glue it.
- Fold the tabs of shell piece 1 under and glue them towards the back of the snail’s body.
- Roll up and glue shell pieces 2 and 3 into cylinders too.
- Draw pupils onto the snails eyes and glue the eye stems and eyes into place on the snail’s head.
- Draw a happy smile.