22 Exciting Elephant Day Activities For Kids

Make a mighty elephant with a paper plate, cardstock, and some gray or blue paint. Use the template to make all the pieces for the big floppy ears, eyes, and a long trunk. Add some detail to the trunk with a black marker to make it look bendy, just like a real elephant's trunk.

Make learning fun with the Elephant Letter Recognition Activity. The printable includes both lowercase and capital letters printed on peanuts, which you then feed to the elephant.

It's an engaging way to help your preschooler recognize and learn the alphabet while celebrating Elephant Day.

These elephant worksheets for preschoolers target multiple skills, including tracing exercises for fine motor development, a maze to boost problem-solving skills, a coloring sheet to inspire creativity, and a color matching sheet for color recognition.

We hope you found an adorable elephant to make or educational lesson to try. Pin this list of Elephant Day Activities to come back to year after year in honor of these animals.

Use these worksheets to guide children through the stages of an elephant's life, from a baby calf to a mighty adult. It's a wonderful resource that combines coloring, tracing, skip counting, and more.

Put on a puppet show with your very own elephant puppet made using a paper bag and our simple template. Storytelling is a great skill for kids to learn, and they can start as early as the toddler years. Why not make up a story about how Elephant Day came to be?

Have a leftover K-Cup? Turn it into a cute little elephant with some paint and a little imagination.

Fold a thin strip of paper for the trunk, add big gray ears with pink centers, and of course, some googly eyes. Add this dainty decoration to your child's desk or bookshelf.

Bookworms and elephant lovers will appreciate these colorful elephant bookmarks with beautiful tassel tails. Make some extras to donate to the library.

Learn how to draw an elephant like a pro. This easy-to-follow guide breaks down the process into simple steps, making it possible for kids to draw a sweet little elephant. It's a fun way to improve drawing skills and confidence.

Combine education and creativity with some fact-filled coloring pages about elephants. These printables feature various elephant-themed illustrations to color in, accompanied by interesting facts about elephants like how much they eat and how they use their trunks.

Add an eco-friendly twist to craft time with this cute egg carton elephant. You may recognize this elephant as Horton from Horton Hears a Who.

Using an egg carton cup as the elephant's head and trunk, children can create a mini 3D version of their favorite character. It's a fun way to recycle, craft, and learn about elephants all at once.

Create a fluffy elephant toy following this tutorial for a pom-pom elephant. The tutorial shows you how to make a pom-pom out of yarn, but you can substitute a large pre-made pom-pom if you want to simplify the project.

Then, you'll make an elephant face with a trunk, ears, and eyes out of wool felt. The result? A soft, adorable elephant pom-pom that is perfect for pretend play or as a cute decoration.

This printable card game is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers and features adorable elephants with different colors and patterns. As kids match the elephant cards, they'll improve their memory and recognition skills, all while learning about different colors and patterns.

Everyday household items like empty toilet paper tubes are a great canvas for crafting. Using a cardboard tube, some paint, googly eyes, and craft paper, children can create their very own elephant complete with a long trunk and big, flappy ears.

This craft is a fun way to reuse and recycle while having fun!

Jump into some fun with a gross motor activity. For this game, tape elephant shapes to a big piece of bubble wrap for little feet to stomp and pop.

As kids romp and stomp, they'll be building their balance, coordination, and muscle strength, not to mention having a blast with every pop!

Put on a show with an elephant hand puppet made from construction paper. By folding paper in the right places and adding ears, eyes, and a trunk, you can create an elephant that can open and close its mouth when you move your hand. This craft will get lots of giggles on Elephant Day.

Put those old newspapers to use by making an eco-friendly elephant craft out of crumpled newspaper. Cut circles out of the newspaper, apply a paste to make it stiff and then crumple it before it dries.

This will become the elephant's face. Add gray paint and make the ears, eyes, and trunk out of construction paper.

Using cardboard, string, wooden wheels, beads, and their art supplies, kids can create their own elephant toys. If you don't have wooden wheels, you may be able to get the same effect using recycled lids from applesauce pouches and similar snacks.

The kids will have a blast pulling their handmade elephant toys around — they're as much fun to make as they are to play with!

Coloring encourages creativity and helps kids work on fine motor skills, color recognition, and concentration. Grab a box of crayons and fill in a couple of these cute elephant coloring pages to celebrate the occasion.

Encourage your child to read more books by making cute bookmarks together like this elephant corner bookmark. Try this easy origami-style bookmark that's embellished with big elephant ears that peek out of the pages of your book.

Fine-tune your child's motor skills with this cutting practice worksheet. Kids can use their scissors to cut along the curved lines, which is a great skill to master after straight lines are consistent.

Don't forget to use kid-safe scissors and make sure your kiddo is maintaining a proper scissor grip.

Preserve a little piece of your child's growing years with this elephant handprint craft. By using their handprints as the elephant's big, floppy ears and cutting and tracing the template to make the face and trunk, it comes together quickly.

This cute craft doubles as an adorable keepsake that's perfect for adding to the memory box or scrapbook.

Get ready for a bubbly explosion with elephant toothpaste! This popular science experiment is not only fun, but it’s a great way to learn about chemical reactions.

Watch in awe as a colorful fountain resembling an elephant's trunk erupts from a bottle. Put the safety goggles on for this exciting activity.