Snails
LO: Wild Mini Beasts
This is a great activity to use when you are studying snails. Have your children make the paper plate snails and write facts about snails on the writing sheets. You can also use this craft as a creative writing activity and have them write a story about snails.
What you will need:
Dinner-sized Paper Plate, Two Lunch-sized Paper Plates, Water Colour Paint, Markers, Hole Punch and Brass Brads
How to Make the Paper Plate Snail Craft:
1. Fold the dinner-sized paper plate in half, bottom-to-bottom.
2. Draw the bottom of the snail shape on the end of the folded paper plate and then cut it out. You will have two shapes that are opposite each other.
3. Glue the two shapes together at the top of the head and the back of the snail. The bottom of the snail will have a one-inch gap. This will allow the snail to stand up and rock back and forth.
4. Glue a lunch-sized paper plate to the front of the snail covering about 1/2″ of the plate so that the bottom of the paper plate is facing front. Glue another lunch-sized paper plate to the back of the snail, top-to-top, matching up the sides.
5. Paint the paper plate snail with watercolour paints or colour it with crayons.