Create Your Snails with Treasures from Nature

🎂 3 + years ⏱️ 30 min 📍 Forest & Meadow ⭐ easy

Sometimes they are hardly noticeable. They are slow, quiet, and carry their home on their back: snails. Maybe you've seen one on the sidewalk after the rain, or quietly watched it crawl through the grass. With this idea, you'll turn old cardboard scraps, a few holes, and something you find outside into a whole gang of snails. When you're done, no two snails will look the same. Some carry a daisy, others a dandelion. But all show: you can think creatively, experiment, and create something with what’s already there. And when the flower on the back eventually wilts? Then the next adventure begins. Now you know how it works.

What you'll need

An old cardboard box
A black marker
A prick needle or nail
Outside: flowers, grasses, small leaves

How it works

Get a piece of cardboard. The more space, the more snails you can fit. Now it's time for your marker. Draw several snail bodies: long and curved, with two feelers at the front. No shell, just the body.
Take the prick needle or a nail. And here we go: poke exactly one hole in each snail, right above the back, where the shell would sit. The hole shouldn't be too small, about the size of a stem.
Now head outside to the fresh air. In the garden, the park, or the meadow. Look for one thing for each snail: a daisy, a dandelion. Look around. What’s growing here? What fits through your hole? Now, stick what you found outside through the hole.
Take a look at your snails now: what a wonderful gang of snails you've created! Each carries its own piece of nature on its back, like a treasure.