Raise your hand if your kids love elephants! In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how your kids can transform a regular paper plate into a cool-looking paper plate elephant craft.
Perfect for all animal lovers (and we just know elephants are likely to be in your kids’ favorite animals lists).
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How to Make the Paper Plate Elephant Craft
What You Need:
- paper plate
- construction paper (gray or blue, and pink)
- pale gray or blue paint
- scissors
- glue stick
- paintbrush
- black marker
- white gel marker/chalk marker (optional)
Step by Step Tutorial
You will need one paper plate to make one elephant craft.
Paint the whole paper plate. Gray or blue are great choices if you are going for more realistic look (but any other color is fine).
Cut out two large oval shapes out of blue or gray construction paper. Also cut out a pair of smaller oval shapes for the inside’s of the ears (kids can also paint this part).
Then, glue the pink onto the gray/blue one to make the ears.
Glue both ears to the sides of the painted paper plate.
Have your kids draw an elephant’s trunk on construction paper. It can be super simple or very detailed.
Cut it out and glue it to the head.
Draw a few black lines onto the trunk.
Draw two large dots with a marker (or cut out two circles out of black paper and glue them onto the head).
Cut out a pair of pink circles (or use a round sponge brush and pink paint) to make the cheeks.
This is an optional step but we love it. Use white gel pen or a chalk marker and draw white dots inside the black eyes.
Your kid’s paper plate elephant craft is now complete!
Pretty cool, right?
You can hang your cute elephant using a string or place it by the window for everyone to see and enjoy!
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