The Puppet Company - Long Sleeves - Elephant Hand Puppet

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This project from Buggy and Buddy uses an interesting technique with newspaper. The crumpled paper resembles wrinkled elephant skin, making this quite a realistic craft! 3. Balloon Elephant Craft Your fingers are the legs (or trunk) of these simple paper puppets. You can make the entire cast of a nursery rhyme or fairy tale in just a few minutes, and then put on your own show. literacy: using props and puppets for story-telling, brining story characters to life through games and retelling Right from the very beginning, Bob Pelham was very keen to encourage young people to get together with their puppets and form groups to put on shows. In addition to the standard range of characters that mainly represented the different nationalities, such as the Dutch Pair and Tyrolean Pair, when the moulding process became available to him, he wanted to create characters from popular storybooks and fairy tales.

When a magician accidentally conjures an elephant in the town’s square (surely an easy mistake to make) it sets Peter off on a quest that transforms Baltese forever. The cast in rehearsals for The Magician’s Elephant (Photo: Manuel Harlan/RSC) The characters as listed on the sales leaflets above and in the Company production records are pictured below. It’s fun to make different animals with play dough and I personally feel that elephants are one of the easier ones. Parents.com shows us how to make a cute blue elephant with modelling clay – this is one even young kids can try. 13. DIY Felt Elephants Unfold all folds. Have the design side face the table. Fold one wing left, or right one, over the middle and apply glue across the folded third.

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As it turned out, despite their initial popularity with the buyers, they were expensive compared to other standard puppets. Although they looked good, they did not work as well as some other puppets. Some characters from the range did survive beyond 1968 when Bob sold off remaining characters that had poor sales figures through Pelpup News. Paul has produced two beautiful ‘coffee-table’ books, especially with Collectors in mind, featuring hundreds of Pelham Puppets and covering the entire period of production from 1947 through to the 1980s – and beyond. You can obtain the books online, Volume 1 here and Volume 2 here.

We can’t get over how gorgeous this little 3-D elephant model from The Pepa Workshop is! The clothespins double up as the elephant’s legs as well as the rider, who is incredibly detailed – just look at his turban! 2. Newspaper Elephant Craft An elephant never forgets– elephants are believed to have good memories, based on observations that in the wild the herd will follow similar paths over many years. They also appear to recognise many humans, as well as other elephants, even when separated from them for decades. Elephants were once common throughout Africa and Asia, but their populations have significantly declined during the last century, threatened by poaching, habitat loss and conflict. World Elephant Day exists to spread awareness about the critical threats elephants face and to support solutions for their survival. We mark the day by looking at our stage elephant, and the animal's place in our culture. Creating the Magician's ElephantHere is the super easy elephant craft that little kids do with the siblings to have great fun in the spare time! This will also be a super fun craft for the painting loving kids! Let your kids paint handprints on the card and then paint little tail and eyes to turn the handprints into beautiful elephant paper crafts! Details here craftymorning Make Dumbo the Elephant Lunch Bag: Fold the other “third” on top of the one you just applied the glue on. Press down for the glue to set.