Elephant Card Tutorial – Adorable scrap paper craft!

You don’t need any special tools.

You probably have everything you need at home.

So, grab some paper scraps, your scissors and glue and let’s make some Ephemera Elephants!

Materials

– paper scraps

– cardboard (I used a cereal box)

– elephant template (download HERE for free)

– thin black ink pen

– scissors

– glue stick

– cardstock or 6.5″ x 5″ cards

Step 1: Download the free elephant template HERE. Cut out the pieces. Trace on to cardboard; then cut out the cardboard pieces. This will give you nice sturdy pieces to work with.

Step 2: Trace the shapes on various pieces of scrap paper. I used old sheet music, book pages and dictionary pages for the body and bright red paper for the balloon.

Step 3: Cut out the shapes on the outside of the black line. You want to keep the black outline intact (except with the balloon).

Step 4: Fold the hat.

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A: Fold short end to short end.

B: Fold in half (left to right) to crease. Unfold.

C: Fold left and right corner in to line up with the crease.

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D: Fold bottom up so that bottom edge meets with bottom edge of the triangles.

E: Fold a second time to form the brim of the hat.

F: Flip hat over and repeat steps D&E.

Finished hat should look like this.

Step 5: If desired, glue a piece of decorative paper to the face of the card for a contrasting background. Then, glue the elephant pieces to the card and each other. Ears should go slightly under the head.