Bottle Cap Snake

This is a super cool project to do with the kids!
Okay, we had seen this wonderful "bottle cap snake" at a reptile class at our local library. It was enough to inspire the girls to make one of their own. They saved lots of bottle caps! They found them in parking lots, parks and pretty much where ever we went. They even got some family and friends and our local mexican burrito shop to save them for us. Finally, we had enough. Infact, we had a total of a little over 400 bottle caps.


First, we took all the bottle caps and punched a hole with a nail and hammer in the center of each one. Then we strung about 140 caps on a wire for each snake (we ended up making 3 snakes).

We then added buttons from larger to smaller at the end for the "rattle" tail.

For the head we took Model Magic Clay that air dries and molded a snake head.

With a piece of the wire we created the facial features and even inserted eyes. The snake took about 3 days to dry but well worth the wait.




Here is our snakes that bend into all shapes and ride on the girls shoudlers as if they were their "real" pet snakes.