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Chinese New Year for Kids – Paper Snake

January 4, 2013

Snake craft ideas

Just before Christmas Pip Squeak discovered her love for Paper Chains! We were visiting a friend who has some fabulously shiny, pre cut and with a self adhesive! Perfect for small toddler hands. So we made a fun chain… and with Chinese New Year approaching, I thought another simple snake craft for kids would be great – so we made some paper chain snakes (we have some more Chinese New Year’s Crafts for you to explore, do take a peak!). It took us 10min or so, with very little set up time but a very happy Pip Squeak at the end. I think I will offer to do these with Red Ted’s class once school starts again.

Chinese New Year Craft for Preschoolers

Materials: Red or green paper (or whatever colour you want really), a glue stick or sticky tape, googly eyes & glue, scissors

Preschooler Chinese New Year

1) I cut strips out for Pip Squeak (3yrs). She threaded them through each other, then I held the loop for her, passed her some tape and she taped them all shut. I used tape, as I thought it would be easier for Pip Squeak to manage. I think with slightly older kids I would use the glue stick. I am not sure she could make this totally by herself, but I was impressed at how much better she was getting at inserting, turning and adding the tape.

Chinese New Years Crafts for kids

2) For the head I cut strip twice as wide. Then we glued on googly eyes and taped on a red tongue.

Chinese New Year crafts for kids - year of the Snake

And done! Such a quick and easy Chinese New Year craft! Very cute. Of course you can make snakes at any time of year.. They would be great for practicing your S letter – especially as you can nicely make the shape “S” with your snake.


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Filed Under: Chinese New Year, Kids Craft 19 Comments

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  1. Agy says

    January 4, 2013 at 5:29 am

    Cute! I can’t believe it will be Chinese NEw Year in a month’s time. I’m just recovering from Christmas!!

    Reply
  2. Red Ted Art says

    January 4, 2013 at 9:18 am

    I know, it really catches up with you!

    Reply
  3. jet says

    January 4, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    aaaw this is cute, and sooo lovely , thank you for sharing this and for all the efords, a happy new year, with many more idea’s and happy crafting days;-D

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      January 4, 2013 at 5:39 pm

      Happy Crafting Days to you too!

      Reply
  4. Louanne says

    January 4, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    Adorable!

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  5. Amanda @MissPandaChinese says

    January 4, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    What a fun craft for the year of the snake! Happy New Year to you!!

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  6. PragmaticMom says

    January 5, 2013 at 6:27 pm

    What a great craft for Chinese New Year! I’m tired of the red lantern and this is very similar in terms of level of difficulty and materials! Thank you!

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  7. Red Ted Art says

    January 5, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    So pleased PragmaticMom.. though have a couple of lantern crafts too… oops. Having said that, we combined our red lanterns with fairy lights and they are super cute?! (https://www.redtedart.com/2012/12/18/chinese-new-year-crafts-lantern-fairy-lights/)

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  8. Trouble Doubled says

    January 7, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    They are fab! We will certainly be trying those very soon.

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    • Red Ted Art says

      January 7, 2013 at 9:59 pm

      Enjoy!

      Reply
  9. Judy says

    January 11, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    As always, adorable and SO perfect for little hands!

    Reply
  10. Trisha @ Inspiration Laboratories says

    January 12, 2013 at 2:10 am

    Lovely fine motor practice and wonderful craft! Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase. šŸ™‚

    Reply
  11. Cindy deRosier says

    January 19, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    I’m the Editorial Assistant for Fun Family Crafts and I wanted to let you know that we have featured your project! You can see it here:

    http://funfamilycrafts.com/paper-snake/

    If you have other kid friendly crafts, we’d love it if you would submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a wonderful project idea!

    Reply
  12. Keith says

    February 10, 2013 at 4:22 am

    Paper snakes look great. I remember making paper figures at school.
    Nice stuff! šŸ™‚

    Reply

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