DLTK's Crafts for Kids Heart Snail Paper Craft Read a bit about DLTK's Grow With Me Craft Concept to get some ideas on how this basic craft idea can be used with different materials to make it appropriate for everyone from ages 2 thru 82!

Materials:

• paper
• glue
• scissors

Instructions:

• Print out the template of choice.
   
• Color (where appropriate).
   
• Cut out the template pieces.  (the pieces on the template are at about the angle they will be on the finished craft.  That should help you sort out which pieces belong where).
   
• Glue pieces together:
   

Glue the three hearts together one on top of the other as "centered" as you can make them.  This will be your snail's shell
Glue the snail's body underneath the shell.
It you're attaching this to a piece of paper, draw a set of antennas and add the two tiny hearts to the tips.

Option for mass-producing - young children:  Print out the B&W template.  Trace the pieces onto stiff cardboard (back of paper pads works well) or margarine/ice cream container lids.  Cut out to make permanent templates.   Allow the children to trace these permanent templates onto different colors of construction paper to make their animal

Option for mass-producing - older children:  Omit the templates.  Let the children cut out heart shapes in various sizes from colored construction paper (show them how to fold paper in half and then cut to make a perfectly symmetrical heart).  Let the children create their own animals by putting together hearts of different sizes (you can pre-make a few example animals to give them some inspiration).
 

Templates:

• Close template window when done printing to return to this screen.
   
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
   

Heart Snail template    (color)   or    (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions