Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Spiral Snake By Julie Joy Preschool children are learning to use scissors. This simple activity helps develop those fine motor skills as they cut curved lines. Before You Start Look at photographs of snakes in a nonfiction book. Good titles include Outside and Inside Snakes by Sandra Markle and A Gathering of Garter Snakes by Bianca Lavies. Let's Begin 1. Start with an oval (head) and draw a spiral on a piece of construction paper. Make a large, thick spiral for children still learning to use scissors. Draw a longer, thinner spiral shape for those with good cutting skills. 2. Show the children how to cut along the line. Have a few extra pieces of paper just in case a child cannot do it successfully. 3. Let the children add eyes, scales, and a tongue with crayons. 4. Hang the snakes from the ceiling so that they spiral down to create a unique creepy, crawly look. Furthermore Make snakes by stuffing old ties with fiberfill or newspaper. Create a classroom snake by making a paper chain that encircles your room.   Green construction paper Scissors Crayons Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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