Shapes Elephant Paper Craft -
Shapes, Scissor Skills, Colors, and Counting Practice

contributed by Leanne Guenther

This craft can be used to teach a variety of skills. You don't have to use all the thoughts for lessons... just choose the ones you're working on with your child. There is a second template with a body that you can optionally use.

Materials:

scissors,
glue,
printer,
paper

Thoughts for Lessons:

SCISSOR SKILLS:

This craft has lots of circles plus a few rectangles and triangles to cut out -- good scissor practice!
You can precut the template into separate pieces (roughly) to make it a bit easier for beginning crafters to cut out the circles.

SHAPES:

Separate the circles, triangles and rectangles.

COLORS:

verbally instruct the children on how to assemble the shapes using the colors of the shapes. (ie: Take the pink circle and glue it on the grey circle.).

SIZES:

show the children two circles and ask -- is this one bigger, smaller or the same size as that one.

COUNTING:

Count the circles, count the rectangles and count the triangles.

Assembly Directions:

Glue the two medium sized pink circles inside two of the large gray circles to make the ears.

Glue the ears to the third large gray circle (the head).

Glue the small circle eyes into the center of the head.

Glue the long rectangle (trunk) dangling down from the center of the head.

Glue the two skinny triangles, point down, to either side of the trunk to complete the elephant's head.

elephant shapes paper craft Assembly - Template 2:

to make the body, glue the head you've completed from template 1 onto the large body circle.
Glue the rectangle legs onto the bottom of the body
Glue the tail together from the largest triangle to the smallest and attach to the body

Templates:

Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template 1 (color) or (B&W)

Template 2 (optional) (color) or (B&W)

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