These snakes are super cute, easy for all ages to make, and have loads of room for a personal artistic touch!!
Green Anacondas are amazing animals! Here are eight fun facts about them:
1- Scientific Name: Eunectes murinus
2- Top Length: 29 feet
3- Weight: 500+ pounds! Heaviest snake in the world!
4- Home: Swamps, marshes, streams in South America
5- Diet: Fish, birds, pigs, and more!
6- Venomous: NO! Anacondas bite their prey to hold them still, but kill them by squeezing them.
7- Eggs: Females carry eggs inside their bodies. Those eggs hatch while still inside, so it looks like the female gives birth to live young without eggs!
8- Life-span: 10+ years in wild, 30+ years in captivity
Have fun learning about anacondas, the rainforest, the Amazon, or whatever else you're working on! If you make some paper plate snakes, I'd love to see them!!
These paper plate Anacondas (a snake from the Amazon) would go great with a Snake Unit, Rainforest Unit, or as a Letter A or Letter S project! We made ours as part of our Brazil day for our homeschool co-op, but you can use it with many age groups...including toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and school-age kiddos!
Making them is super easy!! You just need these
Simple Supplies:
* paper plate
* scissors
* yellow and blue paint
* paintbrushes
* optional: wiggly eyes
Easy How To:
1- Let your kids cut the paper plate into a spiral. Younger children may need help with this, but our all our kids four and older cut it themselves.
2- Let your children paint their Anacondas! Anacondas in the wild come in a variety of yellows, greens, and browns. Your children can experiment with different shades of green by mixing blues and yellows.
3- They can add eyes with paint or wiggly eyes!
4- Let them dry, and your anacondas are ready for some Amazon adventures!
Green Anaconda Fun Facts:
Image Source: "Anaconda Loreto Peru" by Dave Lonsdale - Anaconda. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anaconda_Loreto_Peru.jpg#/media/File:Anaconda_Loreto_Peru.jpg
Green Anacondas are amazing animals! Here are eight fun facts about them:
1- Scientific Name: Eunectes murinus
2- Top Length: 29 feet
3- Weight: 500+ pounds! Heaviest snake in the world!
4- Home: Swamps, marshes, streams in South America
5- Diet: Fish, birds, pigs, and more!
6- Venomous: NO! Anacondas bite their prey to hold them still, but kill them by squeezing them.
7- Eggs: Females carry eggs inside their bodies. Those eggs hatch while still inside, so it looks like the female gives birth to live young without eggs!
8- Life-span: 10+ years in wild, 30+ years in captivity
Have fun learning about anacondas, the rainforest, the Amazon, or whatever else you're working on! If you make some paper plate snakes, I'd love to see them!!
I may share at any of these parties!
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