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Elephant Papercraft For Kids
Elephant Papercraft For Kids
"This Elephant Papercraft is perfect for your elephant and zoo loving kids. With easy step by step instructions and free templates, your kids will have a blast putting their elephant together. Your kids can pick out the paper colors to use for their elephant. They will also practice tracing and cutting as they assemble their elephant. Consider creating even more fun by making other papercraft animals for your kids to play with. You can make it a little party of zoo animals to play with!"
Primary TechniquePaper Crafts
Materials List
- Colored paper
- Craft glue
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Sharpie
- Template
Instructions
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Select 2 different shades of blue colored craft paper and pink colored craft paper.
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Trace the inner ear patterns on the pink paper and the trunk on the darker shade of the blue paper.
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Trace the rest of the patterns on the other shade of blue paper.
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Cut out the traced patterns nicely.
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Stick the inner ear patterns (pink patterns) on the outer ear patterns.
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Stick the tail pattern on either side of the body pattern.
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Stick the ear patterns on both sides of the head pattern, near the top side.
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Stick the eyes and the trunk on the head pattern as well. Glue the top end of the trunk only, keeping the bottom side of the trunk free from glue.
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Stick the head pattern on the top side of the body pattern.
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Trace and cut out a heart shape from a colored craft paper of your choice.
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Place the heart under the trunk by sliding the heart from the bottom open side of the trunk.
