Thread: Making snakes

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I'm looking to have a snake room this year. I was planning on buying 30-40 rubber snakes about 3- foot long and putting them in tanks all around, on shelves, and loose in the room... but they are SOOO expensive!!! Does anyone have a way to make your own snakes? People won't be touching them.. so they can be made of anything.

can use use garden hose? or the tubing used on vacumns?
add a head and tail of paper mache and paint away

I was going to suggest a garden hose cut into pieces. At this time of year you can usually find all sorts of them out in people's trash, since everyone's finding out that they leak after winter storage. A ball of tape for the head, with some paper mache over it, some paint and voila! Snakes.

I have found some at the dollar store, and I just found some that are about 3' long, you soak them in water and they supposedly grow. I'll let you know how they turn out. Other than that: clay snakes, great stuff snakes - use panty hose for form?, papier mache, pool noodles for big long snakes ( just add head & tail then paint); you could also make coiled snakes from great stuff possibly. A pasta extruder could make you a bunch of baby snakes.

Listen to BooBerrie, I got the snakes from Dollar Tree last year and they turned out great! They felt real and looked real and you will save a ton on money, but these are average size. For great big ones...have to think on that, but the Dollar Tree snakes do grow and look real.

For some large snakes (several feet) you could use those pool noodles, tuck some wire down them so you can bend them, carve them a little bit and paper mache over for a smoothness, then paint.

Or how about pipe insulation foam tubes from the local hardware store. You could also put wire into them so that they bend and stay in place.