How to Make a Felt Viper {ABC Animals in Felt}
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I am creating a felt animal for my son for every letter of the alphabet in a new series: ABC Animals in Felt!
This week has been devoted to the letter V. Â I could have made a vulture, but since I don’t really like vultures and we already made a bird last week (U is for Umbrella Bird), I didn’t give John a choice :) Â A Great Horned Viper is super cool and a bit scary, but John says this is his favorite so far! Â (All boy.) Â He was excited about his felt viper!

All you need to make a Felt Great Horned Viper is:
- felt: tan, brown, pink, lime green, black (or you can use paper!)
- cotton balls
- hot glue gun (or Elmer’s if you’re just using colored paper)
- amazing Fiskar scissors (if you’re going to work with felt at all, you have to check these scissors out!)
** This craft uses a hot glue gun — please keep out of the reach of children — these are for adult use only!!
This is the only way this makes sense to me. Â I cut the picture I drew out (free printable at the end of this post!) into pieces. Then, I assemble all of my felt pieces — I cut two each of the two long snake bodies and head. Â Tip: I cut the bodies a bit wider than the printable suggests — this way you’ll be able to fit your cotton balls inside when you’re trying to hot-glue it together. Â I made a bunch of brown spots for the back of the snake, they don’t need to all be the same. Â I also cut some little lime green eyes and glued on a tiny black felt line on for his eyes. Â
I glued the body together and then filled one side with cotton balls and carefully glued the back of the snake on top. Â I have found that it is easiest to have a fork handy to press the two sides together — this prevents burning your fingers….
This felt project was definitely the most time-consuming, but it was worth it!
Here is the viper’s mouth. Â I glued the pink mouth between the two tan mouths and then glued it on top of the body. Â This was done by the seat of my pants, not super technical.
I made four white rolls — two for horns on the top of his head and two for his big fangs inside his mouth — I simply rolled a little piece of white felt, hot-glue-gunned it and cut it until I felt the looked “right.”Â
And now his horns are on his head! Â Scary looking!
And he is done! Â A labor of love! Â My son couldn’t wait to play with him.
 My son absolutely loves his Great Horned Viper. And some play-time pics with his viper eating his little animals….
I made a template, and a coloring page, for you to make your own viper! Â I am not an artist, but I hope you find this helpful! Â
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You can download the Viper printable here!
Book Extension
If you’re looking for a wonderful book to read with this activity, the letter Vv book from AlphaTales is all about the Viper. Â I like that this book also talks about Valentine’s Day, which is another great V word still on the mind, though this is not the Great Horned Viper, I doubt that kids will be too upset by that :) Â Vera Viper’s Valentine! Â
Other Posts in the ABC Animals in Felt Series:
Here they all are, on our floor, where they are often, all around the house. Â Oh well, they will be well-played with. Â We’ll see how long they hold up :)
Happy Crafting,
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This is so cute!! How creative! I am sure my boys would love this.
Thanks Angela! Yes, they would — but I should warn you that this one took longer than I expected lol :)
That is one cute viper! Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library; you were featured this week!
Thanks so much, Ashley, my son loves it !!