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Finger Knitting Snakes

April 17, 2020

Are Yarn Crafts for Kids collection continues to grow. You may have seen a number of our Finger Knitting projects these past few months – we created some easy Finger Knitting Butterflies and wonderful Finger Knitting Bunnies recently.

Today, we have some simple looking Finger Knitting Snakes..

Finger Knitting Snakes - these snakes are so cool and fun to make. Learn about finger knitting with two colours of yarn, as well as our new technique of "increasing" and "decreasing" a stitch. So fun and easy!!

BUT.. there is something a little different about them. Yes, we use two colours of wool, to give them that two tone snake skin textured, but we also experimented with something new… as with traditional knitting, we wanted to experiement as if you can “increase” a stitch and “decrease” a stitch when finger knitting.. and what the results would look like.. can you guess.. did our finger knitting experiment work out?? Oh yes it did… the snake’s heads are created in this wonderful technique.

First shared in April 2017

As with traditional finger knitting.. getting your “head around” how to increase and decrease a stitch DOES feel a little tricky at first, but once you have had a go, you will wonder why you haven’t done it before.. now I am wondering what else we can finger knit with out newly found finger knitting technique

Finger Knitting Snakes – Materials

Finger Knitting Snakes - these snakes are so cool and fun to make. Learn about finger knitting with two colours of yarn, as well as our new technique of "increasing" and "decreasing" a stitch. So fun and easy!!

  • 2 Colours of Wool (I like one to be green, but of course any colours go)
  • Googly Eyes and Glue (optional)
  • YOUR FINGERS! (and a little patience to learn the increase/ decrease stitch)

Finger Knitting Snake – How To:

I do think Finger Knitting How Tos lend themselves VERY well to videos.. which is why ta-daaaaa we have yet another How to Finger Knit video for you. Note that we start this project by using the two middle fingers… and then increase the stitches to the index finger and small finger, then decrease down again to the ring and middle finger… watch the video for full instructions.

Totally love these little snakes. I think they are SO CUTE!

Finger Knitting Snakes - these snakes are so cool and fun to make. Learn about finger knitting with two colours of yarn, as well as our new technique of "increasing" and "decreasing" a stitch. So fun and easy!!

My cat things I made them for her.. well I guess they DO make a good cat toy (but maybe exclude the google eyes and use a bit of knotted wool instead.

ee our full list of Finger Knitting Projects for lots more finger knitting ideas!

finger knitting ideas

I also like these Snake Crafts for Kids – (including more Yarn Snakes)

  • Paper Chain Snakes
  • Snake Printed Draft Excluders
  • Cardboard Tube Roll Snake
  • Old Tie Snake
  • Cardboard Wrapped Snakes

How about some of these other wonderful Yarn Crafts for Kids:

Easy crafts for kids with yarn and wool

This how to video is also available on YouTube:

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  1. Alex says

    April 28, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    This is a fantastic guide on creating these knitted snakes.
    The video made the process much easier.
    Thanks for sharing this article.

    Reply
  2. Hannah says

    June 26, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    This is awesome. My son and I are going to try this out on the next rainy day. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      June 26, 2017 at 4:43 pm

      Enjoy! So pleased you like them!!

      Reply
  3. Ash says

    August 3, 2017 at 4:25 am

    If only the video actually showed your hands!! I had such a hard time following, because your camera was off-center and your hands were barely visible for much of it 🙁

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      August 3, 2017 at 10:55 am

      I agree that my hands are not in the dead centre of the video.. but they never go off screen.. So I am not sure what the problem is…?

      Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      August 3, 2017 at 10:56 am

      (I should have cropped the video and then you would never have noticed the off centred-ness….

      Reply
  4. Sarah says

    September 4, 2017 at 7:32 am

    This is great and very clear, thank you!

    Reply
  5. Sylvia Keefe says

    February 3, 2018 at 1:58 am

    I help with an after school program so the finger knitting will be great. Thanks

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      February 3, 2018 at 10:18 am

      Enjoy! Do check out our other Finger knitting projects too! The butterflies are popular

      Reply
  6. Sam says

    August 12, 2018 at 12:56 am

    Your hand is halfway out of the video screen and the viewer cannot see what you are doing.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      August 29, 2018 at 9:57 am

      Are you watching this on a tv? Then a bit does get cut off, sorry

      Reply
  7. Ana says

    October 21, 2018 at 1:28 am

    the video is off! can’t really see what you are doing!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      October 22, 2018 at 11:00 am

      Are you watching the video on a TV screen? TVs screens are different dimensions and do cut part of the video off

      Reply

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