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Following their happy reunion, the elephants reassure Elmer that they love him because of his differences, and not in spite of them, and they celebrate by painting themselves in multicoloured paint (and Elmer paints himself grey), in recognition of Elmer's unique appearance and personality.Įlmer the Patchwork Elephant also features in a wide range of merchandising. When it begins to rain, the grey paint that Elmer has covered himself with starts to disappear, and Elmer's "true colours" are revealed, much to the delight of his friends, who preferred his multicoloured and fun loving personality. The other elephants immediately realise that the grey elephant must be Elmer and applaud him for his best joke ever. He lifts his trunk and then, at the top of his voice, shouts "Boo!", which unknowingly surprises the other elephants.
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He returns to the herd and the other elephants stand quietly until Elmer can't take the quiet any more. Once painted, the other elephants and jungle creatures no longer recognise him. One day, Elmer decides that he wants to look like all the other elephants, and paints himself grey in order to 'blend in'. The stories are suitable for early exploration of cultural diversity. He has a cheerful and optimistic personality, and he loves practical jokes. Satoshi Kitamura carried out the Japanese translation.Įlmer is an elephant with yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, black and white squares arranged as a patchwork.
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Forty-one book titles have been created since 1989, and the series has sold more than eight million copies in fifty languages around the world. The books are published in the United Kingdom by Andersen Press and were published in the United States by HarperCollins originally, Andersen Press USA now publishes in America. It was inspired by the mascot of the Bordeaux zoo (which closed in 1974) in France. Perfect as Elmer is all about how it’s fun to be a bit different! If you like this you might also enjoy my round up of crafts and activities for reading Miffy at the Seaside.Book cover for Elmer the Patchwork ElephantĮlmer the Patchwork Elephant (often shortened to Elmer) is a children's picture book series by the British author David McKee.Įlmer was first published by Dobson Books in 1968, and re-issued with re-drawn illustrations in a slightly shortened version by Andersen Press in 1989. Of course this doesn’t mean that your child has to follow the rules and do what you tell them, that would be really boring anyway! I’ve always been a bit hands off with kids art but I’ve noticed that in his playgroup they show what the finished article ‘should’ look like which I think is a good idea if you’re trying out a new idea. This was a really nice craft because we could sit and do one each. I made a little loop of thread through the top of them so he could hang them in his window. Place another sheet of sticky back plastic on top to seal it and you’re done! We then cut square shapes out of the tissue paper and put these over Elmers body. My son and I then placed our Elmer shapes coloured side down on the sticky back plastic, adding the ear shape and an eye or two. I also cut out a curved line to make the shape of an ear. Then I cut around the drawing leaving about a centimeter margin of paper to make an outline.
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You draw, turn it over and then place it on your coloured paper, tracing it again meaning that you get the outline on your coloured paper. I bought some in a local shop for 99p that was advertised as being for covering school books How to make it:įirstly I traced a picture of Elmer from a book using the super old school method with a bit of baking paper and a pencil. Googley eyes (my son is obsessed with them, I had no say in the matter) To make an Elmer Suncatcher you will need: I’ve had lots of fun sharing Elmer the Elephant crafts on the Crafts on Sea Facebook page this week and as it’s quite a new story to us I thought it might be nice to try an Elmer craft of our own with this cute suncatcher!