Chinese New Year Snake 3d Coloring Page

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We love Chinese New Year and exploring all the different Zodiac animals! 2025 is the Year of the Snake! With lucky colours black, red and gold. Perfect for making some lovely Snake Crafts with your students and kids! Today, I share our simple but fun 3d Snake Coloring Page. A perfect opportunity for some mixed media art work. I like to combine water colours with felt tip pens!

Year of the snake coloring page

This Year of the Snake Coloring Page can be downloaded individually or as part of our bigger full set of 12 Zodiac Animal Coloring Pages with 3d elements!

3d Zodiac Animals

Supplies needed for your 3d Snake Coloring Pages:

3d snake coloring pages
  • printer paper & a printer
  • coloring penciles, pens, markers, watercolors – whatever takes your fancy
  • scissors
  • a glue stick

As with many of our crafts, I try and make them accessible for as wide an audience as possible. So today, you can have the adorable little 3d Tiger Coloring Page completely for free! Simply enter $0 at check out! However, the 3d Snake Coloring Page is available for a token fee in my teachers pay teachers store to help support the upkeep of this site!

full set of printables

How to assemble your 3D Coloring Pages – Video

Step by Step Year of the snake assembly:

Watch the tiger video instructions on auto play or full the simple photo step by step tutorial here:

water color

Watercolor your background.

Let dry fully.

Color in the snake

Take some time coloring in your animal coloring pages.

cut our your snake shapes

Now cut out the background – a nice rectangular shape. This is a great opportunity for younger kids to practice their cutting skills and cutting straight lines.

Cut out all your shapes.

add glue to the paper dragon

Add a little glue to the BACK and on ONE end only of the head.

make a loop with the snake's head

Now loop it backwards, as if making a loop/ petal shape and secure to the other end of the animal’s head. Remember, you want a little loop effect so you get that 3d animal look.

If making all the Zodiac Animals: For the Rabbit, Horse and Ox, you can now color in the ears too.

glue the body and head in place

Glue the animal’s body in position on your background sheet. Now add glue to the back of the top of the animals head and glue towards the top of the animal’s body.

Finished year of the snake coloring page in 3d

This lovely 3d Snake Coloring Page, is also available as “Jungle Snake” Coloring page (but you can use the Chinese Snake and simply draw your own background too!):

jungle snake coloring page

Aren’t they both fun?!

Or why not get the full set here – Zodiac Animal Coloring Pages:

3d Zodiac Animals

Check out all our Chinese New Year Crafts – including the super popular FREE Dragon Puppet here:

Great Chinese New Year's Ideas for Kids