If you like crafts with cardboard, this craft has a surprise that you will love. It is about doing a funny snail of many colors and that after all its steps you will be able to observe how it balances Children will surely love its easy way to do it and its final result. You dare?
If you like to make crafts with the fun shape of snails, try to see our snails made with pineapples.
The materials I used for this snail:
- 7 Color Cardstock: Dark Green, Light Green, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Red, Purple.
- Scissors.
- Compass.
- White glue or hot silicone and your gun.
- Two plastic eyes for crafts.
You can see this craft step by step in the following video:
First step:
With the compass we will make circles of different sizes. The first and largest will be the red one, where we will make one with a radius of 19,5 cm. Once done we will cut it. Then we will fold it in half and set aside.
Second step:
In the other cards we will make the circles. On the orange cardboard we will make a circle with a radius of 7,5 cm. On the blue cardboard, a circle with a radius of 6,5 cm. In the purple cardboard a circle of 5,5 cm. On the yellow cardboard a circle of 4,5 cm. On the dark green card a 3,5 cm circle and on the light green card a 2,5 cm circle. We cut them all.
Third step:
We stack all the circles and glue them. We will form a structure that we will place on top of the piece of red cardboard and glue it.
Fourth step:
We cut two red strips that we will place on top of the head because they will simulate the antennae or eyes of the snail. We glue them to the top of the head.
Fifth step:
We glue the eyes on a small piece of red cardboard and cut out the excess, emphasizing that there is a small margin around the eyes. We take the eyes with their small cutout and stick them on top of the two strips that we have placed. We take the structure of the snail, we open it at the bottom and we can now balance it. It's a great and original idea!
