Sunday, May 13, 2012

ELEPHANT PUPPET


If you’ve got a field trip to the zoo or if you read HORTON HEARS A WHO
your students will enjoy making this elephant puppet.  You will need a white paper plate, a sock, crayons, 2 brad fasteners, and 2 gray sheets of construction paper for each child.
Cut 2 ears out of the gray construction paper.  Cut a circle large enough for the child’s hand out of the middle of the paper plate.  (Color the plate gray if you desire.)  Draw a face on the plate as shown.  Attach the 2 ears to the sides of the plate with brad fasteners.  Insert the hand in the sock and then stick the sock through the back of the plate to create the elephant’s nose.
                   Elephants walk like this and that.
                   They’re terribly big and terribly fat.
They have no hands, they have no toes.
But, goodness, gracious, what a nose!
You can also make an elephant puppet from an old CD.  Draw a face on the CD with permanent markers.  Tape on construction paper ears and let the children insert their index finger in the hole to make a trunk.  (Grown up fingers are too large for the hole!)