An easy to make cobra snake pop up card

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An easy to make cobra snake pop up card

August 29th, 2008 by ricko

I’ve always been fascinated by cobras. The way they rear their head back to strike, flattening their neck into a hood to look bigger. Some of them have weird markings that look like tribal paintings or strange faces.

I’ve tried to capture in this pop-up card the moment when the cobra rears upwards. It’s a very simple v-fold design and has only two printable pieces. The first piece is the card and the other piece is the cobra itself. Cut out the pieces, fold along the dotted lines, then glue. It’s soooo simple and will only take you a few minutes to assemble. Then you can give it to someone who likes snakes.

Here’s is the printable design to make your card.

Is the cobra the world’s deadliest snake?

It depends what you measure. Sadly, Cobras do kill many people each year. Some species of Cobra tend to live where human populations live. They’re comfortable crawling into houses, or looking for rodents where people are sleeping, and they sometimes hide under clothing and other things left on the ground.

But if you compare toxic venom then the answer is different. According to Will Chaffey in his adventure book Swimming with Crocodiles, eighteen of the world’s most poisonous snakes inhabit Australia. The ‘fierce snake’ or inland taipan of central Queensland tops the list – a single bite is 75 times more powerful than a rattlesnake.

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2 Responses to “An easy to make cobra snake pop up card”

on 28 Oct 2008 at 8:51 pm Rhonda

Good words.
on 22 Dec 2010 at 7:46 am Cyril

This is great. So simple but so effective and visually impressive.

Keep up the good work.