Make the supplies for this elephant craft for preschoolers, with step-by-step instructions and Free Elephant Craft Template! Find Paper Crafts for kids on CraftingJeannie.com
Check out this simple and cute paper elephant! Kids will love making it. Get the Free Elephant Craft Printable below and you will be able to make enough supplies for a group of 20 kids (or more!) with about 10 minutes of cutting.
Do you want more Zoo Animal fun? My Zoo Animal Activity Packet will entertain kids for hours. It includes 12 printable activities and 2 craft templates!
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Here’s What You Need
Here’s what you need for this preschool elephant craft (This post contains affiliate links to the products mentioned. Read our disclosure policy for more information):
- Free Elephant Craft Template <– Get it Here
- colored copy paper, colored cardstock, or construction paper
- scissors (good pair)
- stapler
- glue sticks
- Marker (for face and extras)
Make this Elephant Craft for Kids while reading these Fun Books:
Step 1: Download and Print the Elephant Craft Template
Download the Free Elephant Craft Printable. You will be stapling the templates to sheets of colored paper and cutting out shapes up to 10 at a time.
Step 2: Staple and Cut Out the Elephant Craft Shapes
Once you have the print outs, staple them to up to 10 sheets of copy paper, 5 sheets of cardstock or 5-8 sheets of construction paper.
So, did you know, you can staple together 10 pieces of copy paper and cut out 10 shapes at a time?! That’s my SECRET to fast & easy crafting. Stapling the paper is very important because it makes sure it doesn’t move as you cut. The more staples the better. Cardstock is the thickest so you may only be able to cut 5 sheets at a time.
Tip: While you’re cutting, if you’ve cut off all parts of the pages that have staples, make sure to re-staple the sheets that are left. Whenever you’re cutting multiple sheets at a time, make sure they are always stapled together!
Step 3: How to Assemble
The kids will just need to glue the elephant shapes to the paper and draw on the details
- Glue the elephant body onto a sheet of paper.
- Glue the elephant head on top of the elephant body.
- Use a marker to draw on details: a face, a tail, toe nails, trunk wrinkles and more!
- Don’t forget to write your name on the back.
And you’re finished!
It took me about 10 minutes to have the supplies for 20 kids. How amazing is that?! Now you’re ready to take your Cute Paper Elephant craft to your event. This would be a great craft for a zoo lesson, Preschool, Scouts or just a fun school party idea.
More Free Craft Printables
If you liked this craft, check out some of my other animal crafts for kids!
- Tiger Craft for Preschoolers
- Giraffe Craft
- Lion Craft for Preschoolers
- Bear Craft Template
- Panda Craft
As always, I try to make the classroom and party crafts fast, easy & inexpensive. Enjoy!
Download the Free Elephant Craft Printable
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