Kids Craft: Elmer Elephant

Make an Elmer The Elephant

Start with a plastic milk bottle

My daughter made me this Elmer Elephant at pre-school for World Book Day.  I loved the idea so much I wanted to post it.  I don’t get to do the crafty making things at home thing as often as I’d like but I thought this was an inspired idea.

Take one plastic milk bottle, look at the top of the bottle … see it?  Yes indeed it is infact, very obviously an elephant.  Who knew?  Who ever saw this before in their fridge, ever?  Not me that’s for sure!

Take one empty milk bottle, draw a stright line at the bottom of the handle all the way around and then cut it.  I’m no crafter so I can’t advise on suitable implements but I’d imagine sharp scissors would do the job, feel free to leave a comment with any advice & I’ll happily update this post & credit wise words.

Remove the lid and cut off the neck of the bottle, sellotape over the entire hole.

Cut four arches from the bottom of each side to make the legs.  Decorate with brightly coloured squares of tissue paper, sticking with pva glue and add a couple of googly eyes.

Voila!  One Elmer Elephant!

Elmer the Elephant 1Elmer the Elephant 3Elmer the Elephant 2

So what do you think?  I now see elephants where I never did before every time I pour milk!  Do you?

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11 Responses to “Kids Craft: Elmer Elephant”

  1. maggy, red ted art
    March 6th, 2012 at 9:24 am

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE your Elmer! And I sooo know what you mean – every day object regularly turn into crafty potential….

    Maggy x
  2. TheMadHouse
    March 6th, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    I adore this too and both Sandy and I instrgrammed our boys Elma’s!
  3. Susan Mann
    March 8th, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    This is great, what a great idea.
  4. Sarah
    March 11th, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    That is a fab idea – and beautifully decorated tell Diva ;)

    I bet @shababysha would like to do this with e boys?? I’ll tweet a link ;) xxx thanks for sharing :)

    Xxx
  5. Charlene @ Adventures In Mommy Land
    March 12th, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    How clever is that?!? I would like to invite you to link this to Hey Mom, Look What I Did on Adventures In Mommy Land (http://adventures-in-mommy-land.blogspot.com/2012/03/hey-mom-look-what-i-did-22.html)
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  8. Lauren
    April 25th, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    Hay there :D

    Im a Child Care and Education student, and i was looking for resources for a Elmer the Elephant Story Sack, and when i came across this i had to put in instructions as an extra for parents to do with their chldren, it was such a good idea, many thanks :D

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  11. Jane
    November 16th, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Thanks for fab idea !
    Just spent the last hour scouring the recycle bins in our area to get enough for my reception class to make little Elmers !
    Can’t wait to make them!

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