- Gather your materials. You will need a paper plate, some construction paper( 2 white, 1 black), glue , scissors, a paint brush, jar or cup and paint.
- I like to make the gray paint by mixing different colors, your child will love this.
- Paint the paper plate.
- While your child is painting , cut out 2 ears and a trunk using the white construction paper.
- Paint the trunk and ears.
- While your child is painting, cut out 2 black circles and 2 slightly larger white ones for eyes, and some black strips for the trunk.
- Let everything dry.
- Glue the ears , trunk, strips and eyes on!
* To make this elephant into a mask, you can cut eye holes and attach ribbons on either side or a stick to the bottom !
Note about crafts : As a teacher I love to do open ended art projects that provide a wonderful creative experience for children so as you can imagine all these crafts I have done have gone against some of my teaching instincts. However when you are working one on one with a child you have so many opportunities to follow their lead, and make even a structured craft like this elephant into something creative. My son loved mixing the colors to make the gray paint, so after we were done we got a few more jars out and continued. Watch carefully and you too will find ways to turn these crafts into a whole host of fun!
Song!
One Elephant!
One elephant went out to play,
upon a spider’s web one day,
he had such enormous fun that he called for ______ to come!
Two elephants went out to play,
upon a spider’s web one day ,
they had such enormous fun that they called for ______ to come!
* I like to use the child’s/ children’s names but if you are singing this alone with your child you can use their stuffed animals/ toys names or simply say ” another elephant ” instead!
Books!
” Good Night Gorilla” by Peggy Rathmann is a silly story about a zookeeper and his charges that follow him home to bed. Luckily his wife is on her toes and gets those silly animals back to the zoo ! This book is good for the 1-3 crowd , after that most kids I know have lost interest in the limited text. I love to use this book as a bedtime story.
” Inside a Zoo in the City” by Alyssa Satin Capucilli is a rebus read along , so children who can’t read words yet can help read this with pictures put right into the text! The story is repetitive and builds with one animal and page at a time. Preschoolers love these books and the repetitive nature of it makes it interactive and fun!
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What kind of paint do you use?
I use crayola kid paint.
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