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!)