This craft can be used to teach a variety of skills.  You don't have to use all the thoughts for lessons... just choose the ones you're working on with your child.  There is a second template with a body that you can optionally use.

Materials:

• scissors,
• glue,
• printer,
• paper

Thoughts for Lessons:

SCISSOR SKILLS:

• This craft has lots of circles plus a few rectangles and triangles to cut out -- good scissor practice!  
• You can precut the template into separate pieces (roughly) to make it a bit easier for beginning crafters to cut out the circles.

SHAPES:

• Separate the circles, triangles and rectangles.

COLORS:

• verbally instruct the children on how to assemble the shapes using the colors of the shapes.  (ie:  Take the pink circle and glue it on the grey circle.).

SIZES:

• show the children two circles and ask -- is this one bigger, smaller or the same size as that one.

COUNTING:

• Count the circles, count the rectangles and count the triangles.

Assembly Directions:

• Glue the two medium sized pink circles inside two of the large gray circles to make the ears.

• Glue the ears to the third large gray circle (the head).

• Glue the small circle eyes into the center of the head.

• Glue the long rectangle (trunk) dangling down from the center of the head.

• Glue the two skinny triangles, point down, to either side of the trunk to complete the elephant's head.

Assembly - Template 2:

• to make the body, glue the head you've completed from template 1 onto the large body circle.
• Glue the rectangle legs onto the bottom of the body
• Glue the tail together from the largest triangle to the smallest and attach to the body

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template 1                    (color)   or   (B&W)

Template 2 (optional)   (color)  or   (B&W)