Paper Collage

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Description: For this activity we created a Snake out of paper. we first took a piece of construction paper and traced two pieces from the teacher's stencils, one for the head and one for the tail. Then we took the remaining paper and cut strips to make the body of the snake. We started with the head of the snake and folded the paper in half and cut the paper into the shape of a snake. Then we did the same thing with the tail. Once we had both pieces cut out we used  glue to stick them together, same sides glues together. After we had the head and the tail we used our other strips to continue our snakes body. We looped on strip through the opening in the head of the snake and glued opposite sides together. we continued to do this with all of the strips we cut. Once we had once strip left we looped it through the body and the tail of the snake and glued opposite sides together. Once we had our snake all glued together we used paint to decorate it however we liked. I decided to paint black and white dots all over the snake. I gave the snake big eyes and a tongue sticking out like it was hissing. We could decorate it to look like a real snake or however we wanted. 

Extension: This would be a fun activity to do to track students reading accomplishments throughout the semester. Each student would start their snake at the beginning of the semester with a head and one strip on the body and throughout the year, every time a student finishes a book or we read one as a class they add a piece to their snakes body. This could be a fun visual way for students to see how much they have read at the end of the school year in my classroom. 

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