Elephants

One of our favorite books this week is Little Elephant's Trunk by Hazel Lincoln. This book tells about all the ways an elephant can use its trunk. I found an easy elephant craft at busybeekidscrafts.com that we made after reading the story again today. 

For each elephant, I gathered these supplies: 

Two grey paper ovals

Two ears cut form grey paper

Two goggly eyes

One pipe cleaner

A small piece of string (for the tail)

Two clothespins

One glue stick

The children spread glue on one oval and pressed the pipe cleaner and the bit of string onto it. 

Next, they glued the second oval on top of the first one so that the pipe cleaner and string were between them. 

Then they added the ears, eyes, and clothespin legs.

These were not only fun to make, but they were also fun to play with!

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Stripes and Symmetry

After looking at pictures of zebras with their black and white stripes, we made our own zebra stripes. We used black paint to make the stripes on one half of a piece of white paper.

Then we folded the paper in half...

and rubbed it a bit. 

When we opened it, there was a very pretty symmetrical set of stripes. 

The children were too young to understand the word symmetrical but they did understand that both sides of the paper were the same. This is the first step in understanding symmetry. 

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African Safari Part 2

After flying to Africa in our pretend plane, we grabbed our binoculars and set out on a safari adventure. 

We made the binoculars by cutting a paper towel roll in half and stapling the halves together like in the picture. We also attached a string so that we could wear them around our necks. 

Earlier in the day, I hid our plastic animals around the school. When it was time for the safari, we walked around and "spied" the animals with our binoculars. 

What an exciting safari!

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