I've been asked to find ideas to help with music. This is an "Elephant Head" from a colorful piece of poster board, with a hole cut out where the nose would be. Use a contrasting/complimentary colored nylon stocking and attached it to the back of the head where the toe portion was sticking through the hole. (See my crude illustration.)
Each child that was chosen to lead a song would stick their hand and arm into the stocking from the back side of the poster board. The children all wanted to get a chance to lead the song, so we brought our "elephant friend" back several times to visit.
Another idea used to get children to sing was to make it a game of "Hot & Cold". The instruction was that one child would be chosen to be it and would leave the room. An object was chosen and hidden somewhere in the room, and the remaining children could only let "it" know where to find the item by singing. They would sing louder when "it" was close, and would sing softer when "it" was farther away. We usually got even the boys who hated to sing to join in on this "game".
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