Elephant Cardboard Game Activity

Children love to play with elephants, and they tend to enjoy educational activities that involve these humble creatures. The elephant cardboard game activity can be fun to perform and learn a lot of things while performing it. Simple, yet creative, you can make it exciting for your kids to learn new things by offering them some incentive, such as prizes, to want to indulge in this game activity:

Suitable For:

This activity is designed for children aged three and above, as they can learn how to aim at their target precisely:

What You’ll Learn:

1. Aiming Skills – Children will learn how to aim at things and hit the bullseye as they toss the Frisbee rings toward the trunk of the elephant with the aim of landing on it.

2. Social Skills – Every time children play this game, they learn sharing, caring for others, communicating better with others, and, most importantly, social skills.

3. Traditional Learning – Children nowadays tend to spend more time on the computer screen than off it. When they participate in this activity, they will have learned new things in the traditional way and understand what life was like in the pre-digital era.

4. Fairness and Impartiality – Children will learn how to play fair, to adhere to the rules of the game, and to be impartial toward others when they engage in this activity. As a result, they will naturally become better global citizens in the future.

5. Environmental Awareness – As your children engage in this activity, they will learn the significance of protecting the environment when you share with them the importance of using recycled cardboard sheets to prepare this game activity.

Material Required:

1. Recycled Cardboard Sheets: Keep at least two thin recycled cardboard sheets ready for preparing the cardboard elephant face, the trunk of an elephant, and cardboard-based Frisbee rings for this activity

2. Scissors: For cutting out the cardboard sheets into the face of an elephant, its trunk, and Frisbee rings for throwing toward the trunk of the elephant

3. Glue: For pasting the face of the elephant and its trunk to each other and to the wall

4. Whiteboard Markers: For drawing the face and trunk of the elephant on the surface of the cardboard sheets.

The Procedure for Preparing:

1. Prepare the cardboard elephant face, trunk, and Frisbee rings –

Keep two recycled cardboard sheets ready for this activity, which should be cut into the face of an elephant, its trunk, and Frisbee rings for throwing toward the trunk of the elephant in such a way that they land on it.

2. Draw the elephant face, trunk, and Frisbee rings –

Use the whiteboard markers to draw the outlines of the face of an elephant, its trunk, and some Frisbee rings.

3. Cut out the cardboard sheets –

Prepare the cutouts of the face of an elephant, its trunk, and a few Frisbee rings along the outlines you have drawn for each of them.

4. Stick the cutouts to the wall –

Paste the two cutouts of the elephant’s face and trunk to your wall in such a way that when the Frisbee rings are thrown toward the trunk of the elephant, they land on them. This game activity is similar to the ring-throwing games at carnivals. Make it fun for your children by offering them incentives, such as chocolates or other small gifts, if they win.

5. Encourage your children to participate –

Ask your children to try their luck at throwing the Frisbee rings toward the trunk of the elephant. Ask them to aim and toss the rings in such a way that they land perfectly on the trunk of the elephant.

6. Review and Repeat –

Every time your kids complete one round of this activity, encourage them to repeat it till you are certain that they have mastered it.

Perfecting one’s aim to hit the bullseye has never been easier! Since the structure of this game activity is highly adaptable, your children can learn a variety of new things, including perfecting their aim while throwing objects, acquiring social skills, and more easily.