This week I’m doing a “Big, Grey Animals” Storytime: Elephants, Rhinos, and Hippos. So many great books to choose from! I will post all of my choices later on, but for now, here’s my flannelboard for this traditional rhyme:
Hard to tell, but Elephant #1 is grey. Really.
1 Elephant went out to play
Upon a spider’s web one day
He had such enormous fun
He called another elephant to come.
(HEY, ELEPHANT!)
2 Elephants went out to play
Upon a spider’s web one day
They had such enormous fun,
They called another elephant to come…
etc.
I used a pipe cleaner for the web – it sticks really well. I’ve also used a piece of yarn, tied around the flannelboard. I decided to number my elephants to reinforce numeracy, and I did them in a variety of colors so we could, at the end, talk about them. “What color is number 3?”
Will the spider web hold them all?
Aren’t the elephants cute? I used this clipart elephant as my pattern.
When we get all 8 elephants on the spider web, I give the whole thing a shake and they fall off. Yes, I said 8: I only made 8 because why do we always have to count to 5 or 10? You can make as many as you like.
That's a lot of elephants!
This is also a traditional rhyme in Spanish; here’s the text:
Un elefante se balanceaba
Sobre la tela de una araña
Como veía que resistía,
Fue a llamar a otro elefante!
¡ELEFANTE!
Dos elefantes se balanceaban
Sobre la tela de una araña
Como veían que resistía,
Fueron a llamar otro elefante…
etc.
Here’s a video of me singing the song version, in Spanish, on the StoryBlocks website.
Check in with Miss Mollie’s Storytime Fun later today for the full Flannel Friday roundup!
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