Letter E: E is for Elephant: Elmer

Elmer is an elephant created by David McKee.  As you can see Elmer is different to other elephants because he isn't ordinary elephant coloured.  In this first story of a series Elmer finds out it is OK not to look the same as anyone else because he is special just the way he is.

Here are some of the resources we chose to use with the book this week:

• Elephant shape craft from First School
• Elephant maze (easy) from Kids Front
• There is a whole page of elephant themed stuff over at Confessions of a Homeschooler, every kind of preschooler activity is covered from lacing cards to spelling and writing practise.  We already had some of these printed so we used the size sort and colour by numbers for our "Elmer day".
• Elephant paper chain.  You know how elephants walk along in a line each holding the tail of the one in front with their trunk - this will be kind of like that and each one can be different like Elmer.
• Elephant costume - here's one I made earlier! or follow the instructions here to make an elephant mask out of a paper plate.
• Stand-up elephant to cut out and decorate
• Colouring book fun has lots of elephant colouring pages
• Elmer spot the difference  from  Random House
• Elephant dot-to-dot (numbers 1-20)
• Elephant dot-to-dot (counting by 10's)
• Elephant dot-to-dot (letters A through T)
• Elephant maze (hard from Billy Bear 4 Kids)
• Pictures from my safari minibook to colour from Busy Bee Craft
• Elmer colouring sheet from Random House
• Elmer Word Jumble puzzle from Andersen Press
• Elmer Wordsearch from Andersen Press

Pictures to follow as as when of course. Wish us luck it should be a busy day!