15 Snappy Snail Crafts for Kids
Everyone will love these snappy & colorful snail crafts for kids! Perfect for young kids to explore their creativity with yarn, paint, paper plates & more!
When we were kids, there was nothing called ‘snail mail‘ – there was just mail! However, once email made an appearance in our lives, there had to be a way to differentiate the two, and well, someone decided to use the snail’s speed as a reference point!
Well, I’m sure the snails don’t mind, and maybe it’s just an opportunity for people to think about snails once in a while. National Snail Day on 29th May is another opportunity – and we’re celebrating with snail crafts for kids!
15 Snappy Snail Crafts for Kids
1. Pipe Cleaner Snail Craft
The most prominent part of a snail’s body is undoubtedly its shell, and we can’t think of a better way to create a snail’s swirly shell than with a pipe cleaner!
2. Easy Papercraft Snail Bookmark
These little guys look really happy that you’re reading, and their tiny smiles prove it! Snails have really small mouths, but some species can fit as many as 20,000 teeth in them!
3. Rocking Snail Papercraft
Speaking of snail teeth, the marine snail’s teeth is one of the strongest materials in the world – more so than spider silk! It is said that snail teeth can withstand extremely high pressure – even if it can turn carbon into diamond!
4. DIY Papercraft Snail Puppet
Have you noticed that snails are rather slimy? Of course you have! Well, that’s because snails need a lot of moisture to survive, and when it starts getting dry, they go into a pretty long nap – anywhere from a few hours to 3 years!
5. Spin Art Snails for Kids
A slug looks like a snail that has lost its shell, and that’s because it’s true! Well, they just didn’t have a shell to begin with. This does make them move a little faster, though. If you’d like to make a slug, follow the instructions at Arty Crafty Kids until adding the shell. For a snail, follow through with all the steps!
6. Threaded Snail Craft
If you’re looking for snail crafts for kids of preschool age, this project from Kids Craft Room will give their fine motor muscles some good exercise! While they’re at it, let them know that a snail is not an insect, but more of a mollusk, like a squid or octopus!
7. 3D Paper Snail Craft
Easy Peasy and Fun has an interesting craft – a snail with a three-dimensional shell! How cool is that? Even baby snails are born with shells, although their shells are soft. The shells harden as they grow and gain more calcium.
8. Colorful Newspaper Snail Craft
Take that old newspaper out – we’re going to make a snail shell out of it, thanks to this project from I Heart Crafty Things! Speaking of news, there was an incident in the 1980s when the owners of a snail farm realized that their skin had gotten better after handling snails. Since then, snail mucin has become a much sought-after beauty ingredient!
9. Mosaic Snail Craft
The Best Ideas for Kids uses lots of colored paper pieces to put together a colorful snail shell! Snail shells have many uses – they improve paper quality, reinforce automotive connections and are even used in face powder!
10. Free Printable Stacking Snails
Kids Craft Room shows us that snail crafts for kids also double up as toys, like this tacking snail set made out of paper! You’ll notice that these snails have eyes at the end of their long tentacles, but some also have them at the base, while others have no eyes at all.
11. Recycled CD Snail Craft
Unleash your creativity to make these snails from Arty Crafty Kids – make them as quirky or fancy as you like! Speaking of fancy, snails are today considered a gourmet delicacy, but they were once the poor man’s food, consumed during famine.
12. Minibeast Fingerprint Snail Craft
It’s not for nothing that snails are called slow – they move at a pace of about one meter per hour! At this rate, it would take them over a day to cover 1 mile! However, Arty Crafty Kids has a snail craft for us that moves wayy faster!
13. Paper Plate Snail Craft
This N That with Olivia brings us a pair of fun snails, decorated with colorful beads. In reality, snails don’t really need to pair up to reproduce; freshwater snails can produce children on their own since they have both egg and sperm cells.
14. Rolled Paper Snail Craft
Have you seen people throwing salt to get rid of snails? That’s because the salt absorbs all the moisture from the snail’s body, causing dehydration which can be fatal for snails. Uh oh, one of these guys from This Crafty Family looks like he may be a little low on moisture!
15. Colorful Button Snail Craft
If you’ve got lots of spare buttons lying around, I Heart Arts n Crafts has the perfect project for you! Gather your colorful buttons and use them to decorate this snail’s shell – look at how happy he is!
We hope these snail crafts for kids have helped you see snails in a new light, and not just as super-slowcoaches! They’re amazing in their own right, and have an important place in our ecosystem. Make sure you share these crafts and trivia with your friends!
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