


Glue them down on your paper plate.įinish off by sticking down your snail on the whale’s tail. Draw several lines down from the mouth to the bottom of the plate.Ĭut out two white circles for your whale’s eyes and use your marker to colour some pupils. Now to make your whale! Take your marker and draw a smiley mouth along your blue crescent line. The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is a wonderful rhyming story about a sea snail that is eager to travel the world. Glue your pieces of snail together and then finish her off by adding two googly eyes and by drawing on a big smiley mouth. If necessary, paint your tail blue and put aside to dry.Ĭut out the shapes to make your snail, you’ll need a slug shaped body, two feelers and a curvy shell. Take your A4 piece of card and cut out the shape of your whale’s tail. Take your paper plate and paint on a blue crescent on the top half of your whale’s head. It was from watching this that we came up with our cute snail and the whale craft which has taken pride of place next to his paper plate gruffalo in his room! You will need The BBC also aired a short film of the snail and the whale at christmas too which we absoloutely love to snuggle up and watch. Fortunately i love every children’s book they’ve ever made together so it’s never a chore reading it over and over. I can pretty safely say that i now know the entire story off by heart. The snail and the whale written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler is by far my son’s favourite book. The Snail and the Whale Author: Julia Donaldson Longing to see the world, a tiny snail hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. The Twinkl website inspires teaching through learning with access to over 700000 educational resources for all teachers and parents to use in line with the.
