Isn’t this cute little fellow a cool paper craft to make?! Preschooler and kindergarten age children will LOVE making their own version of a Paper Elephant.
Keep scrolling for the how-to and to score the free printable template to get you started with ease!
It’s Simply Perfect For Beginners – Elephant Paper Craft For Young Kids To Recreate
Today we are sharing a super adorable paper elephant craft for kids to recreate today! Your child will love crafting it up and you’re going to love showing it off!!!
What actually inspired this post was our now viral Balloon Elephant Card craft tutorial from a few years back. After thinking about the shapes I pieced together to make that particular craft come to life, I started to envision what eventually became today’s post. One thing led to another and I also made the FREE printable you will find below, for your convenience in recreating the craft.
It’s just matter of downloading our free elephant template, printing it on paper and then adding a few embellishments to bring it to life! Then you are done crafting, you can round off the elephant theme with a movie night watching Dumbo or reading a few children’s books for a quick story-time.
Anyways… I’ll let you get to it so you can have fun making it as well! Find all the details below!
Happy crafting, my dear friends. Please don’t be shy and be sure to share pictures with us when you complete the elephant craft with your child! You can find us on Facebook and Instagram for easy tagging! We can’t wait to see your paper elephants in action! #gluedtomycrafts
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Craft Supplies:
- Free Elephant Printable Template on Box.com
- Color Printer
- Gray Cardstock Paper
- Pink Cardstock Paper
- White Cardstock Paper
- Paper Craft Scissors
- Glue Stick and/or Tape Runner Adhesive
- Large Wiggle Eyes {2 per elephant craft}
- optional materials – coloring utensils, small craft bows
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Directions:
- First things first. You are going to grab the FREE elephant head template listed above in the supply list.
- Go ahead and now print the file on a single sheet of gray cardstock. You only need ONE print per paper craft. Print as many as you like!
- Next use scissors to trim out the elephant shape from the printable.
- Before you discard the excess paper, cut along one side and make a 1″ inch wide, long paper strip. If you don’t feel like you have enough room to work with {ever printer prints differently} go ahead and just grab another sheet of gray cardstock paper to complete this step.
- Take the paper strip and fold it a few times, like an accordion to make the elephant’s trunk.
- Now grab another sheet of colored cardstock, all the other paper pieces, the wiggle eyes and your choice of adhesive.
- We are going to start off by gluing the elephant head to the center of your large paper.
- Follow that up by adhering the folded paper “trunk” to the center of the face.
- Now glue on the eyes so your elephant can see.
- Finally, if you like, cut out a small paper heart from your pink cardstock.
- Adhere the paper heart to the end of the paper trunk in the craft.
- Add any other embellishments you like {like maybe a smiling face like ours} and display your paper elephant masterpiece proudly for all to see!
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Customize It!
- Don’t feel limited by our tutorial. Yes, I used grey cardstock to print my file on and give my elephant a solid gray color but you can skip that step if you like {especially if you don’t have any on hand!} Just print the file on white cardstock paper and use crayons, pencils or markers to give him some color. I personally didn’t like how mine looked with the use of crayons 🙂 Maybe I’m being my own worst critic but I felt that the use of solid gray colored paper was better for me. You might have a different feeling about it and that’s totally fine!
- Again, I repeat, don’t feel limited by my words and pictures. I want YOU to be creative so I hope you {and your child} run with our idea and make it your own today! The free file is like a coloring page so no matter which direction you go, you are going to make an awesome paper piece to show off!
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Paper Elephant Craft
Tools:
- Glue Stick and/or Tape Runner Adhesive
Supplies:
- Cardstock Paper
- 2 Large Wiggle Eyes
- Embellishments
Instructions:
- First print out our provided printable, in color, on a single sheet of white cardstock paper. You only need one print per craft.
- Next use scissors to trim out the elephant shape from the printable.
- Before you discard the excess paper, cut along one side and make a 1" inch wide, long paper strip. If you don't feel like you have enough room to work with {ever printer prints differently} go ahead and just grab another sheet of gray cardstock paper to complete this step.
- Take the paper strip and fold it a few times, like an accordion to make the elephant's trunk.
- Now grab another sheet of colored cardstock, all the other paper pieces, the wiggle eyes and your choice of adhesive.
- We are going to start off by gluing the elephant head to the center of your large paper.
- Follow that up by adhering the folded paper "trunk" to the center of the face.
- Now glue on the eyes so your elephant can see.
- Finally, if you like, cut out a small paper heart from your pink cardstock.
- Adhere the paper heart to the end of the paper trunk in the craft.
- Add any other embellishments you like {like maybe a smiling face like ours} and display your paper elephant masterpiece proudly for all to see!
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