Explore the world of snakes with MotherooHQ’s 51-page printable unit study, featuring soft watercolour information cards, simple colouring pages and reusable hands-on learning resources.

Across five connected lessons, explore what makes a snake a reptile, its body parts, eggs and live young, venomous and non-venomous Australian snakes, and snakes from around the world. Choose the resources that suit your child’s age, interests and readiness—there is no need to complete every page.

What’s included

• 40 watercolour information cards across eight portrait sheets, with names above the pictures and concise facts below.

• Four visual snake-safety cards with short captions: stop and keep calm, move away slowly, tell an adult and leave the snake alone.

• Four matching parent safety-guidance cards, with illustrations and fuller explanations across two sheets.

• Two snake colouring pages: a carpet python and a hatching snake, with simple unshaded outlines.

• Six A4 landscape playdough mats: capital and lowercase S, snake word forms, turtle, lizard, crocodile and snake curves. Place playdough over the animal pictures to copy their shapes.

• Snake life-cycle sequencing pages and cut-out cards.

• Body-part matching pages and separate labels.

• Australian snake matching, picture cards and venom-category sorting resources.

• A landscape world map with named snake examples and a key explaining the highlighted regions.

• Matched snake X-ray paper layers for a flashlight reveal.

• An answer key for the matching and sorting resources.

• Curated snake-themed book and toy recommendations.

• Access to our curated Snake Spotify playlist, featuring music and audio episodes.

Support for teaching at home

The study also includes guided lesson cards, neatly organised parent information, hands-on and Artwork invitations, and optional Foundation–Year 6 extensions. English, Maths, Science, Movement, Bible and adaptable Languages prompts connect with the weekly topic. Explore and investigate cards provide additional observations, comparisons and patterns where useful. Tagalog examples are included, with directions to use your chosen second language.

A clickable table of contents, linked text references and a one-page overview of selected Australian Curriculum V9.0 and EYLF V2.0 connections make the resources easy to navigate.

A4, ink- and printer-friendly. Information-card sheets are portrait; all playdough mats and selected larger resources are landscape.

Digital PDF download only. No physical product, printing, books, toys or activity materials are included. Curriculum connections identify selected learning opportunities, not complete year-level coverage.

Snakes

Australian Snakes Unit – Week 1