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Snake | Paper Bag Puppet | Printable Craft

A printable snake template turns a paper bag into a hand puppet with a moving mouth once colored, cut, and glued together.
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Updated Jan 11, 2024

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Creative Arts, Art
Topic
craft activity, fine motor skills
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What's inside this resource

Let creativity take shape with an entertaining snake paper bag puppet craft! This printable template provides everything needed to have students construct their own snake puppets for engaging dramatic play, retelling stories, and supplemental curriculum activities.

The resource includes a fully assembled snake design together. Also incorporated are individual paper bag template pieces to serve as the puppet base students will color, cut out, glue, and assemble. When completed, it will appear that the snake opens its mouth when the puppet is used!

Bringing the learning to life, elementary students will love animating their snakes, slithering across desks, hiding in habitat scenes, or even reenacting whimsical character stories. Teachers can guide discussion on key science concepts like snake behavior, biology, habitats, and more while students apply the knowledge through imaginative puppet play.

Beyond science connections, creative writing and art extensions provide cross-curricular opportunities. Have students design original snake characters complete with backstories, record puppet show retellings, or construct coordinating habitat dioramas. Photos of the finished snake puppets can even be incorporated into bulletin board displays or digital portfolios documenting the learning process.

Engage a range of learning styles with this versatile paper bag snake puppet craft! Compatible across elementary grades, it promotes creativity, science connections, and hands-on fun.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Follow a multi-step sequence (print, color, cut, glue) to assemble a finished craft project.

  • Practice fine-motor cutting and gluing while assembling individual paper pieces onto a puppet base.

Teaching tips

  • Have students complete the coloring and cutting steps ahead of time if class time is limited, since the glue-and-assemble step is quick once pieces are ready.

  • Offer the black-and-white template to students who want to choose their own color scheme, and the full-color page as a reference for those who prefer to match it exactly.

  • Let assembled puppets dry fully before use, since the instructions specify handling the finished puppet only after drying.

Skills covered

  • Sequenced multi-step assembly — students follow print, color, cut, and glue steps in order to build a finished puppet.

  • Fine-motor cutting and gluing — students cut individual body pieces and glue them onto a paper bag base.

  • Imaginative/dramatic play — the assembled puppet's moving mouth supports retelling or role-play once complete.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

What are the two template options for the snake craft?

A full-color reference page and a black-and-white line-art version of the same template, so students can either match the color guide or choose their own colors.

How does the finished puppet move once assembled?

The head and body pieces glue onto a paper bag so a hand inside makes the snake's mouth open and close.

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Core concepts

  • craft assembly

  • fine motor skills

  • paper bag puppet

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