Letter E:E is for elephant: Roll an elephant game

Free to download here from Making Learning Fun

Letter E:E is for elephant:colouring page

This page is downloadable for free from Making Learning Fun.  Specially designed with large open spaces it is perfect for using with large markers (such as bingo daubers), stickers or for collage work.  Click here to download.

E is for elephant:master list

lacing template

magnet page

size sort

split pin craft

colouring page

Letter E:E is for elephant:lacing template

This was originally intended as a bag label for a whole E unit over at love my life x4.  However I think it makes a perfect lacing template.

Print, laminate and use a hole punch to make the lacing holes.  Click here to go to the bag label and here to go to the original post for related activities.

Letter E:E is for elephant:magnet page

Free to download from Confessions of a Homeschooler.  Click here for a whole page of related activities - scroll down for the magnet page.

Letter E:E is for elephant:size sort

Free for download from Confessions of a Homeschooler - click here for a whole page of related activities and scroll down for the size sort.

Letter e: e is for elephant: split pin character craft

Find out how we made it here

letter e: e is for egg: Easter Egg Matching Activities - our homemade version

After writing Muck Monsters: letter e: e is for egg: Easter Egg Matching Activities for download we had a change of heart.  Instead of using our printer ink we decided to make our own easter Eggs.  

First a plastic lid was cut to shape and then we used this template to draw around to produce our eggs.  

Then we coloured them in - a group effort which all the children helped in- each one is unique to make the puzzle a little easier for B.

A helped me laminate the eggs.

R cut them out and A cut them in half.

Here is the finished result.

B enjoyed cracking the eggs (complete with sound effects) and then putting them back together!

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!