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Kids Craft – Tissue Paper Snail

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This Kids craft is super easy and is perfect for toddlers and older kids too. The crafting process is great for use of pincher skills helping the child to develop their hand coordination. This craft is perfect for incorporating a reading activity. Check out these Books about snails.

List of Supplies:

  1. Colored Craft Tissue Paper
  2. Colored Craft Paper
  3. Craft Glue
  4. Scissors
  5. Pencil
  6. Template

Instructions:

Step (1)

Print and cut out the patterns from the template. Select a colored craft paper and trace the patterns on it. Cut out the traced patterns from the craft paper.

Step (2)

Cut tissue papers into small pieces (2cm X 2cm). Select more than 3 colors.

 

Step (3)

Take a piece of cut out tissue paper and crumble it into a small round shape. Similarly, crumble the rest of the cut out tissue papers into a small crumbled round shape.

 

Step (4)

Take the round cut out pattern prepared in step one and start to glue the crumbled tissue papers on it.

 

Step (5)

You can start from anywhere you want but it’s better to start from the center of the round pattern.

Step (6)

Keep gluing the crumbled tissue papers until the whole round pattern is filled.

Step (7)

Now take a regular white stationery paper or art paper and glue the body pattern of the snail on it. Attach the snail body near the bottom side of the paper.

Snail Template

Have you read?

Book Review: Once in a Blue Moon

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins. 

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world. 

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears. 

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more. 

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake. 

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more. 

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.