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How to draw an elephant

Start with the body and the back legs and finish with the eye and the tusk.

Finished, it has 13 areas to color: 16th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (one of the easiest). Close to it: dog face and rose.

Main colors in the original emoji: gray.

The six steps

1. The body and the back legs.
2. The head, the trunk and the front legs.
3. The far side of the body and the tail.
4. The top of the head.
5. The tip of the trunk.
6. The eye and the tusk.

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How to draw an elephant: 6 steps

7 shapes over six steps, then a box to draw your own.

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How to draw an elephant: 4 big steps

Steps of 1, 1, 2 and 3 shapes, drawn bigger.

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Elephant to color

The finished drawing: 13 areas.

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Color and trace: elephant

Color it, then trace the word.

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New parts are black and what is already drawn is gray; how the sheets work. Draw something else: fire engine, fish, flying saucer, fox, ghost, giraffe, heart with ribbon, helicopter, horse, house, ice cream, jack-o-lantern.

Drawings adapted from Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0: turned into outlines, and checked so every area can be colored.