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Pom Pom Elmer The Elephant

May 15, 2016 by Emma Gadsby 4 Comments

After the success of our Elmer The Elephant Window Art Adam has been keen for us to do more contact paper craft. He recently got out his favourite collection of pom poms and tried to place them onto the window forgetting that the contact paper was no longer there. I decided to follow his lead with the pom poms and with Elmer Day just around the corner I couldn’t resist creating a Pom Pom Elmer The Elephant.

Pom Pom Elmer The Elephant

Using the same method as our Elmer The Elephant Window Art, I printed Twinkl’s Elmer image, placed it underneath contact paper and went over the lines with black permanent marker pen.

Creating pom pom Elmer

I then peeled the back off of the contact paper and positioned Elmer onto the window so that the sticky side was facing us. Sellotape is great for holding the contact paper in place.

Contact paper Elmer the Elephant

Adam took his pom pom collection and started to fill each Elmer. The pom poms stuck easily to the contact paper but they could also be removed too. This meant that Adam could adjust where the pom poms were placed easily.

Pom pom craft

Adam looked closely at the Elmer illustrations and told me that no two pom poms could be next to each other that were the same colour. He also declared that Elmer the Elephant had several black sections and how he didn’t have any black pom poms. I guess I will be on the hunt for black pom poms now.

Pom pom Elmer

We decided that our Pom Pom Elmer Elephants would stay up as a process art piece. We were not interested in the final outcome but the fact that Adam could keep going back to his Elmer’s over several days and adapt the pom poms whenever he wanted.

Elmer the elephant craft

It was a great craft activity for Adam to work on strengthening shoulder and arm muscles, developing gross motor co-ordination, learning to work on a vertical plane and focus on repeating patterns. I can imagine our Pom Pom Elmer The Elephants will remain on our window for some time.

Kid Craft Challenge

Check out these pom pom crafts as part of the Kid Craft Challenge:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft  by The Resourceful Mama

Spring Pom-Pom Tree  by Raising Fairies and Knights

Elmer the Elephant by Adventures of Adam

Pompom Cupcake Pencil Topper by Teach me Mommy

Pom Pom Monsters by Kidz Activities

Pom Pom Pets by A Mommy’s Adventures

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Filed Under: Creative Activities, Independent Play Activity, Play Activities, Super Quick Play Activities Tagged With: Arts and Craft Activities, Book themed play, Contact Paper, Fine Motor Activities, Independent Play Activities, Pom poms, Super quick set up, Window activity

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  1. Michelle says

    May 16, 2016 at 2:40 am

    What a fun way to use pom poms!! We love Elmer I will have to try this with Clara. I love your pom poms with the sparkly pieces mixed into them 🙂

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  2. Kim says

    May 16, 2016 at 6:07 am

    Thanks for being a part of the challenge! We love Elmer! This is a great extension of the book and use of pom poms. We have gobs of pom poms. I will be adding this to our list to try.

    Reply
  3. Niki - Play & Learn Every Day says

    May 23, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Such a fun idea, love how Adam could come back to it throughout the day!

    Reply
  4. Leandra says

    May 25, 2016 at 9:51 am

    This is so cute! Such a love idea x

    Reply

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