Cotton Ball Painted Snail Paper Plate Craft

By: Melissa

You don’t need a lot of special supplies to make this cotton ball painting. This Cotton Ball Painted Snail Paper Plate Craft is such a fun way to not only be creative, but to learn about snails!

This craft is fairly easy and early elementary kids can make it themselves and kindergarteners and preschooler should only need minimal help.  This paper plate craft  is great  to reinforce practicing colors, patterns and cutting skills.

Cotton Ball Painted Snail Paper Plate Craft with a paper plate cut to look like a snail, green pipe cleaner antennas, googly eye, and smile with neon paint.

Paper Plate Snail Craft

This craft is such a great way to learn about colors and snails. Plus, who doesn’t love painting! It is definitely a way great way to keep your child busy and one of our favorite paper plate activity for kindergarten kids.

Supplies You Need To Make This Snail Cotton Ball Painting

Materials:

This is what you need to make a paper plate snail craft:

Snail cotton ball painting with yellow, blue, prink, and green neon pains with a cotton balls, scissors, clothes pin, spiral cut paper plate, and google eyes.

The neon pains make this snail craft so bright and fun.

  1. To make the snail ,  start cutting the paper plate from the outside,  in a continuous circle until you reach the middle.  This will create a spiral shape.   Trim the edge and  round the snail “head”.
  2. Glue a googly eye into place, twist the fuzzy stick into a snail antenna shape and glue to the back of the paper plate.
  3. Use the clothespin to pick up the cotton balls, dip them into various paint colors and dab all over the snail body.
  4. Draw a smile, let dry and you have a cute snail!  Just be sure to keep him out of the garden!
paper plate snail craft with orange, green, blue, and pink splatters on the paper plate body.

This snail craft is great for small kids!

Isn’t this snail paper plate craft adorable?!   What a great activity  for any spring  theme!

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This super cute painted snail is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten kids and uses minimal supplies.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time 30 minutes

Additional Time 10 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Difficulty easy

Estimated Cost under $10

Materials

  • Paper plate
  • Craft paints
  • Cotton balls
  • Clothespin
  • Googly eye
  • Fuzzy stick
  • Glue

Instructions

  1. To make the snail ,  start cutting the paper plate from the outside,  in a continuous circle until you reach the middle.  This will create a spiral shape.   Trim the edge and  round the snail “head”.
  2. Glue a googly eye into place, twist the fuzzy stick into a snail antenna shape and glue to the back of the paper plate.
  3. Use the clothespin to pick up the cotton balls, dip them into various paint colors and dab all over the snail body.
  4. Draw a smile, let dry and you have a cute snail!  Just be sure to keep him out of the garden!

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