January Activity Pack
An Elephant in the Garden—Did You Know? Elephants are the largest land
animals in the world.
The largest elephant on record
was an African elephant, which
was 13 feet tall to the shoulder!
Elephants cannot jump, but they
can swim, and use their trunk like
a snorkel in deep water.
An elephant’s skin is an inch thick.
Just like people are right or left
handed, elephants prefer one tusk
over the other.
Hand Print Elephants Make a hand-print on paper using grey poster
paint. Using the thumb as the trunk, and fingers as
the legs, decorate your elephant with eyes, ears,
tusks and a tail!
Try with different sized hands to make a family of
elephants. What other patterns can you make with
your hand print? Can you make the savannah
grass? Can you make any other animals?
Experiment!
Image source: Pinterest
An Elephant in the Garden — Know your elephants!
You will need: toilet roll tube, lolly sticks, glue, grey paint wiggly eyes, grey card, Styrofoam ball—or you can papier mache over a small balloon, let dry and remove balloon carefully.
Instructions: Glue the ball to the end of the tube. Carefully cut the lolly sticks in half. File any sharp edges. Glue the sticks to the side of the tube to make legs. When the glue is dry, paint the elephant grey and leave to dry. Cut a trunk, ears and a tail from grey card. Bend the trunk around a pencil so it curls. Glue (or stick with double sided tape) the ears, trunk and tail to the elephant. Finish with two wiggly eyes.
What other animals can you make?
Can you make your monster?
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Not Now, Bernard — Monster Mash! All you need for this activity is paper and pens and a friend to
help you! Take a piece of paper and fold it into thirds (just like you
would to fit a letter in an envelope). Label the sections ‘head’, ‘body’ and ‘legs’.
Take it in turns to draw parts of the monster on the paper—but don’t peek at each other’s drawings! Mark on the other side of the fold where your neck or body ends, so the next person can make everything line up.
Unfold your paper to see your creepy creation!
When you have some monsters, try naming them. Are they a good monster or a scary monster?
What do they like to do, or eat? What makes them happy, sad, or scared?
Use your imagination and see what monstrous tales you can come up with! We tried making a
collage all about our monster!
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