> Materials - cardboard - clay (hardening, modeling, chemical, or kitchen) - scissors - toothpick Read Clay (pages 108-110) before you decide what kind of clay you want to use for this project. ...
“SHOOTING” ANIMALS
Would you go hunting ferocious lions, wild elephants, and fierce rhinoceroses without a gun? That's just what a lot of people do every year when they go on safari in national parks in Africa. Instead...
Can you “read” the pictures?
Look at the elephant! Do you see the soldiers on the prancing horse? No, it's not a parade. These are pictures painted on a house in India. Other pictures tell about the family in the house---if you...
Elephants without trunks
Most scientists believe that 50 million years ago there were elephants living in swamps where Egypt is today. But they didn't look anything like elephants do now. The first elephants didn't have...
Trunks and tails
Wouldn't it seem strange to have a hand on the end of your nose? But an elephant has a sort of hand on the end of its nose. The elephant's trunk is its nose. And at the end of the trunk are one or...
A wood-ant city
An ant nest is like a little city where hundreds or even thousands of ants live together. Ants make their nests by digging tunnels and storerooms in the ground. The picture on the page across from...
Animal Ways
> A harvester ant goes to work every day. Why do birds sing? Why do ants rush about so busily? Why does a mandrill sometimes seem to yawn when it sees another animal? Are there reasons for what the...
The Elephant
by Hilaire Belloc When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So LARGE a trunk before. Elephants walking Along the trails Are holding hands By...
