Disposable paper cup handicrafts - dancing colorful snakes

Material preparation: < br /> Several disposable paper cups (the more paper cups there are, the longer and better the colorful snake will be) It’s fun), cardboard, colored pens (or sticky notes of various colors), wire (or cotton swabs), double-sided tape, ballpoint pens, scissors, and pliers.

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1. Use sticky notes of various colors to cover the outside of the paper cup. (If there are no sticky notes, you can use color pens or paints to cover the outside of the paper cup. painted). My son and I chose red, yellow, and green sticky notes to decorate the paper cups.

I am helping to cut the green sticky notes

I am decorating the "green cup"

Decorated paper cups

2. Place one of the decorated colorful paper cups Remove the bottom of the cup, hold the cup body with both hands and flatten it, and draw the shape of the snakes head, as shown in Figure 3. Use a black pen to draw the snakes eyes on the white cardboard, and use a red pen to draw the eyes. Long tongue, as shown in Figure 4. Then use scissors to trim the snakes head, tongue and eyes, and then stick the eyes and double-sided tape on the snakes head.

3. Use a ballpoint pen to poke a hole one centimeter away from the bottom of the cup and the top of the cup, and then poke a hole in the cup at the vertical point corresponding to the two holes. Poke another hole in each body. Use the same method to poke holes in other cups for later use.

4. Use pliers to cut off a piece of wire that is about the same length as a cotton swab, then use pliers to make an elbow on one end of the wire, as shown in Figure 7, and then poke it in place. Thread the top of the cup through the bottom of the hole, and then use pliers to bend the other end of the wire into an elbow.
Tips: If there is no iron wire, you can use cotton swabs instead. The disadvantage is that it will fall apart after playing for a long time< /font>

5 , Use the same method to thread all the cups into a long string. The longer the cup, the more fun it is. The snake head and tongue are shown in Figure 9. After everything is put on, the fun and novel dancing colorful snake is ready.
Tips: All the bends of the wire you are wearing must be in a straight line!

Disposable paper cup handicraft - dancing colorful snake

Disposable paper cup handicraft - dancing colorful snake

Let me study how the colorful snake moves?

< font size="4">First timeI used a cotton swab to wear it, but after playing with it for a long time, it fell apart. Today I thought of a good way to wear it with iron wire and then bend the two ends of the wire into an elbow to make it very strong.

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Puzzle points: After finishing the work, I told my son about the characteristics of snakes. My son knew that snakes are long A long animal with a long snake head