There is space on the right hand side of the slider to put stickers
with regular weekly events e.g. swimming on Saturday etc.
We have our Week Snake positioned near the front door so it can
be easily seen every morning as we leave for school.
Use the Week Snake to work out the number of days to go before
an event e.g. number of days until a Birthday or day out.
To make a Week Snake
You will need
Snake and days of week background sheet
Today pointer pieces (B+C) and slider bar (D)
( All the images you need plus building instructions can be downloaded
as an Adobe acrobat .pdf file from our downloads
section)
Clear sticky back plastic (or laminate the pieces)
Clear sticky tape
Scissors
Card
Method
Print pages 2 and 3 of the Adobe Acrobat Document (snakeweek.pdf -
available in our downloads
section) onto card (or onto paper and stick onto card)
Laminate or cover all the pieces in sticky back plastic to
strengthen them.
On the snake background (A) carefully cut along the two black lines
at the top and bottom of the green bar.
Cut out parts (B) and ( C ) to make the today pointer.
Cut along the black lines on part ( C )
Cut out part (D) the green bar.
Carefully slot part ( C) onto part (D). Make sure it slides up and
down
Attach part (B) to part (C ) using clear tape at either end, make
sure the today slider still freely moves up and down the green bar.
With the today pointer in place slide the ends of the green bar (D)
through the holes you made on the snake background (A). Tape this firmly
into position on the back of (A)