Colorful Newspaper Snail Craft

Ever since we made our colorful owl craft last month, we simply cannot get enough of watercolor painted newspaper. I love how I can set out the newspaper and watercolors for my daughter one afternoon for creative play and then the next day we can turn her pretty colored newspaper into something creative like this colorful newspaper snail craft. It is such a happy and cheerful craft, perfect for beautiful spring time!

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How to Make a Newspaper Snail Craft

Supplies:

• newspaper
• liquid watercolors
• paintbrush
• colored cardstock paper
• googly eyes
• Fun Chalk Markers
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

1. Start by painting your newspaper with your liquid watercolors. The newspaper will be saturated but don't worry. Let it dry for about 12 hours or overnight and it will dry and harden back up again.

2. Trace a bowl on your newspaper to make a circle snail shell, then cut it out. You'll also need to cut out a snail body and antennae from your colored cardstock paper. 

3. Glue your newspaper snail shell onto your snail body. Then glue on your antennae and a googly eyes.

4. Finish your colorful newspaper snail craft by using your Fun Chalk markers to draw a swirly shell shape onto your newspaper.

Just like our newspaper owls, we are so thrilled with how colorful and fun our snail craft turned out! If you haven't tried watercolors on newspaper yet, you need to!

Looking for some fun books to go along with this cute craft? Try some of these:

- The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson

- Snail Trail by Ruth Brown

- Slow Snail by Mary Murphy

- How Many Snails? A Counting Book by Jr. Giganti Paul

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• Newspaper Owl Craft
• Recycled CD Snail Craft
• Beaded Snail Craft for Kids
• Puffy Newspaper Tree Craft
• Washi Tape Snake Craft for Kids