Remember our game Pretending to be Dora and Diego? It is one of my preschool son’s favorite games, I hide an animal, give him a map and tasks and he needs to go rescue the animal. Sometimes that is not enough and he wants to train the animals too! This is a fun “make a snake” activity where my Z-man got to make a snake, and then “train his snake”. Who knows, maybe this snake will become an “animal rescuer” too!
What you need to create a toilet paper snake:
Lots of toilet paper rolls, yarn to connect them and a little boys neck with which to wear the finished product. 
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We talked about how snakes can’t walk and practiced making our snake slither. Z-man also made his snake dance to the music and we had fun counting the sections of the snake by ones and by twos. Want to reinforce your “snake” learning? Here is one of our favorite books, all about creepy crawling reptiles:
Reptile (Eyewitness Books)
He sure makes a cute snake charmer!
What a cute activity! The pumpkin would love this, and the toilet rolls are big enough she would have the coordination to help string it! Thanks!
Now why haven’t I thought of that? Very cute idea. I’ll have to start my TP roll collection today. =)
I love this idea!
Oh, I like this idea!
What a super cute idea! Can’t wait to try it with my kids, they love Diego and Dora when they get to watch it at Grandma’s house.
Even I like that snake- and I am not a snake lover. At least this one is not a snake that mom can confuse for the real thing, right? I think both of my boys would love this. When Logan was about 16 months we went to a playgroup where we just made snakes by painting a papertowel tube green and tying a string to it. He pulled that “pull toy” around for at least a month. It’s crazy how easily they can be entertained!
Thank you for linking a great SNAKE activity up to the ‘Children & Animals at play’ BLOGHOP.
Lovely greetings, Angelique & WAD organisation
(http://www.angeliquefelix.com/blog/world-animal-day-2011-bloghop)