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Movement
• The children make the shape with their bodies and arms of a big, wide elephant.
• They make big floppy ears and then dangle one arm from their nose like the creature’s trunk.
• Using their trunks they stretch up high and twist them round to pluck leaves from the tree.
• Slow plodding steps on the front complete an elephant dance.
Song: ‘Elephant’ (to the tune ‘The animal fair’)
The elephant’s big and strong,
With a trunk that’s incredibly long,
He’s got big floppy ears,
And nothing he fears
As he noisily trumpets his song.
He goes to the pool to drink,
In the mud he wishes to sink,
He stomps in with a smash,
And then starts to splash,
Coz Elephants love to crash and bash and crash and bash and crash.
The children can make the ear and trunk actions as before, slapping their knees and stamping their feet with the music to show the elephant as it crashes and bashes.
Story: Practise makes perfect
On the African plains a baby elephant is learning to use his trunk for the very first time.
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