3/31/2024 0 Comments Outline of elmer the elephant![]() ![]() Perfect as Elmer is all about how it’s fun to be a bit different! If you like this you might also enjoy my round up of crafts and activities for reading Miffy at the Seaside. Of course this doesn’t mean that your child has to follow the rules and do what you tell them, that would be really boring anyway! Read aloud video by Dramatic StoryTime Theater Guidelines for. In Elmer, Elmer, the patchwork elephant, enjoys the role of being the clown of the elephant herd. Print out the Elmer the Elephant pattern on a sheet of. Once the paint has dried, it’s time to make your elephant. Children can create all kinds of patterns and use various color combinations 4. All the other elephants laugh at his jokes and enjoy the games that he comes up with. Dip the sponges into the paint and use them to stamp rows of squares on your paper. Elmer is an elephant with yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, black and white squares arranged as a patchwork. I’ve always been a bit hands off with kids art but I’ve noticed that in his playgroup they show what the finished article ‘should’ look like which I think is a good idea if you’re trying out a new idea. But one day, Elmer stops having fun playing with the other elephants and decides to leave. This was a really nice craft because we could sit and do one each. Your teacher, David McKee, is one of the worlds best-loved childrens book authors and the creator of Elmer, the story. I made a little loop of thread through the top of them so he could hang them in his window. Place another sheet of sticky back plastic on top to seal it and you’re done! We then cut square shapes out of the tissue paper and put these over Elmers body. My son and I then placed our Elmer shapes coloured side down on the sticky back plastic, adding the ear shape and an eye or two. I also cut out a curved line to make the shape of an ear. ![]() He sticks out from the crowd of gray elephants. Then I cut around the drawing leaving about a centimeter margin of paper to make an outline. Elmer is a patchwork elephant with many colors. You draw, turn it over and then place it on your coloured paper, tracing it again meaning that you get the outline on your coloured paper. I bought some in a local shop for 99p that was advertised as being for covering school books How to make it:įirstly I traced a picture of Elmer from a book using the super old school method with a bit of baking paper and a pencil. Arts and entertainment reporter, BBC News. Googley eyes (my son is obsessed with them, I had no say in the matter) To make an Elmer Suncatcher you will need: I’ve had lots of fun sharing Elmer the Elephant crafts on the Crafts on Sea Facebook page this week and as it’s quite a new story to us I thought it might be nice to try an Elmer craft of our own with this cute suncatcher! ![]()
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