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Rainforest Misc
Contact_FullName: cara FullName: Cheryl Email: rootswings526982@aol.com date:: 04/03/03 Area: Rain Forest- Misc Idea: Dramatic Play Ideas Rainforest Lookout Station Hang brown and green crepe paper from ceiling over your drama area or paper bags twisted into vines. Add a sleeping bag, camping gear, some blocks and red cellophane paper to simulate a campfire, binoculars, paper & crayons with clipboards for stories and a backpack for some forest fun! For a change, add a pop up tent, flashlights, picnic baskets and play food. Add books about the rain forest as well.
8-15-00Tropical Rain stick How to Concoct it: 1. Hammer nails into the tube 1/8 apart, using the spiral seam of the cardboard. 2. Add several handfuls of assorted filler material (rice, beans, etc) 3. Seal each end of the tube securely with tape. 4. Decorate your Tropical rain stick with ribbon, adhesive-backed shelf paper ,or wrapping paper. Use your Tropical rain stick to create sound of rain. Shake it, twist it to create a variety of different sounds! Lots of fun!!
8-2-00When my class was studying the Rain Forest, we put coffee beans in the sensory table. If you are a coffee junkie, you will love this.
7-14-00I have done a variety of different things for this topic. How rainy is the rain forest ? In the Midwest we get an average of 3ft. the Rain forest receives 9ft. We make a chart showing the difference. the main crops Coffee, Corn and Cacao Bean (Cocoa) and we did a variety of activities with each in sensory and art. Other areas: Anteater math with file folder activities or flannel board. We even made Rain gauges the children could take home and monitor the rain fall in our area. We covered the layers of the rain forest: The bottom " forest floor" made of soil insects ground animals. Middle layer: "under story" small trees/shrubs Anteaters, lemur, tree kangaroos. And the top layer the "canopy" with tropical birds, toucans. monkeys. We created this in our classroom as we learned the names of the layers. And with our art projects created the animals at the various levels. It was a lot of fun. We sampled fruits, nuts and seeds and made monkey tails ( bananas with Popsicle sticks in them frozen after they were dipped into chocolate. Canoes are a major form of transportation and we constructed a canoe floated down the Amazon river in our classroom. Fern rubbings were also incorporated when we learned about the plants in the lower levels.
5-18-00The kids love it when we decorate the room for the weekly theme. Have the children decorate large leaves and flowers with glitter. Hang them on green yarn from the ceiling. Also hang green streamers around the room as vines. Also you can have kids decorate rainforest animal patterns and hang them too from the ceiling. I also saw on the internet a great website www.ran.org. They have great fact sheets on the rainforest and lesson plans that you can adapt for preschool.
4-26-00Make a Monkey out of them! Using the old standby of paper plates, or more costly craft foam, construct masks of different rainforest animals!
Date: 3-30-00Colorful Rainforest Frogs Have the body of the frog pre-drawn on construction paper, use different colors for each frog. For the legs for the frog, have those also pre-drawn on yellow construction paper (you could also use different colors also for the legs). With the legs have the two front ones smaller than the two back ones. Have the children glue on a wiggle eye and draw on a smile (if they want to) Have the children cut out the body and the legs. Next have them glue on black spots on the body and legs. You need brass clasps to attach the legs to the body. Now they have colorful frogs with moveable legs.
Date: 3-30-00Toucans. You need to draw up the toucans body on black construction paper. You will also need to draw up the beak (upper and lower) on yellow construction paper. You need to draw the tip of the beak on orange construction paper. Have the children cut out all of the body and glue it all together. Have them glue on a wiggle eye. For the feathers for the toucan, glue on colorful feathers starting from the bottom of the bird and working their way up to mid back of the bird. They turn out really neat and the children enjoy them also.
Date: 3-10-00At nap time, I have a CD that I put on for the kids of rainforest sounds. They absolutely love this and it relaxes them and they fall quickly asleep. Most of the sounds are like crickets and frogs and birds, but it's really quite serene and beautiful.
Date: 3-5-00One of my favorite dramatic play Date: ideas is for the Rain Forest / Jungle. For some great trees, use those heavy cardboard tubes from carpets. (Carpet stores will donate them) Cut them various sizes. Turn two card tables over & place side by side. Place the tubes over the legs to support your forest. Tape construction paper leaves, and green streamers for vines, from pole to pole. For the forest floor we use old green & brown blankets. With a few Beanie Baby jungle animals, vests, straw hats and binoculars, the children are set for adventurous play.
ideaMusic: Make rain sticks Materials needed: toilet paper tube straight pins rice construction paper Place several straight pins all around the toilet paper tube with the heads on the outside of the tube and the point on the inside of the tube. Cover one end with paper. Fill the tube about halfway with rice. Cover the other end of the tube. Cover the outside of the tube with decorated paper. (this keeps the children from pulling out the straight pins).
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