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?

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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!