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QuickCraft Jungle Activities eBook

Over 150 printable & template activites relating to the Jungle. You will love the printable Animal and Tribal Jungle Masks. Click here to read more information about this downloadable CD.

Jungle Crafts

Rain Forest

Books

Over In The Rain Forest: This book uses the common song, "Over In The Meadow". A great way to introduce different animals that live in the rain forest and to reinforce numbers (1-10).

Rain Forest Books
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
The Umbrella by Jan Brett

A Rainforest Adventure
Dramatic Play

Play different rainforest sounds or animal sounds (or music).

I have some on this page: Animal Sounds and Calls.

Pretend you are in rainforest. Hear the rain falling from the sky. See the tall tree ... See the ... (flying above you). Hear the sound it is making. Hear the wings flapping. Pretend to flap your wings, walk like a ..., etc. The chimpanzee is going to tree to tree. Pretend you are moving from tree to tree. Oh, it grabbed a banana, ... What color is the banana? Pretend to eat a banana, ... Shh. Here comes a ... Be very quiet. Don't move. Oh, they he goes. You can walk now. Use your imagination.

Rainforest Animal Puppets
(Use these to go with your Rain Forest Adventure)
One site you can go to is: The Umbrella Coloring Mural @ janbrett.com to print out animal coloring pages.

Links to go with the Rainforest Adventure
The Open Door Web Site: The Amazon Rain Forest: The Play
Other activites: Make drawing of various animals, foods, etc. found in Brazil.

To locate more rainforest animals, go to the below sites:
abcteach: Rain Forest Themes
Rainforest Animals (Printables) and Rainforest Animals: Biomes at EnchantedLearning

The Belize Zoo - The Mammals Index
Tropical Rainforest Theme Page
Zoom Rainforest @ Enchanted Learning Printout, facts, etc.

Photos, Information, Video/Sounds, Coloring Pages
Costa Rican Rainforest Photo Gallery
Forests, Rain Forests and Jungles
Rainforest Action Network: Kids' Corner
Tropical Rainforest Coalition: Resources
Tropical Rainforest Coalition: Bird Information, photos, and sounds
Wildlife of Pacific Northwest Coastal Rainforest

Africa: Chimpanzee , Gorilla, Leopards

Asia
Apes: Gibbons, Orangutan, Siamangs

Rainforest Animals Sounds Gibbon, spider monkey, and tamarin.

Australia
Rainforest Australia Link also located at: Austrialian Theme.

Central America and South America

The anteater and sloth are edentates (have few teeth or no teeth at all).

Anteater
Help The Anteater (maze) @ Bry-Back Manor
The Online Anteater: giant anteater information, pictures, links, and more!

Green Iguana

King Vulture
King Vulture @ The Belize Zoo
King Vulture @ Honolulu Zoo

Quetzal
Canku Ota - Coloring Book: Quetzal
DLTK's Quetzal Craft (toilet paper roll)
Quetzal (bird) Coloring Page @ First-Schools
Quetzal Printout - Enchanted Learning

Jaguar

Sloth
Sloths @ Singapore Zoological Gardens
Toe-toed and Three-toed Sloth Page

New World (North America, Central America, and South America)
Howler Monkey, Spider Monkey
Ocelot
Plain Xenops
Tapir

South America

Scarlet Macaw
Scarlet Macaw @ Belize Zoo

Small-eared Zorro @ EnchantedLearning

Toucan
FONZ Coloring Pages: Toucan
Kee-billed Toucan @ The Belize Zoo
Panda's Playhouse: Toucan Coloring Page

Southern North America and South America
The Belize Zoo - Coatimundi

Reptiles
Chameleon

Rhymes / Fingerplays
Five Little Monkeys Fingerplay

Activities & Crafts
Rainforest Vine String Craft @ Enchanted Learning

Music
Rain Forests - a song of celebration! Grade 1-3 @ lessonplanspage Social Studies, science, music.

Poetry
Forest Poetry Fifth Grade Germantown Academy

Rain Forest (Jungle) Printables / Activity Sheets
abcteach: Rain Forest Themes Facts, printables, picture animals, plants, etc.
Activity Pages @ Bry-Back Manor Activity Pages 211-216: Rainforest Wordfind, Help The Anteater (maze), Which Parrot Is Different, Rainforest Concentration (game), Travel The Amazon Game, and Rainforest Counting
Chunky Monkey's Rain-forest Friends Color a map of South America.
Rainforest Animals (Printables) @ EnchantedLearning
Rainforest Counting @ Bry-Back Manor You can use this as an activity sheet and have the children practice writing their numbers (or put numbers on it and trace each number). This can be put into on a file folder or use as a flannel board activity.
Rain Forest Theme Unit @ abcteach.com Including printables, games, pictures, facts, activities, songs, and more.
Chunky Monkey's Rain-forest Friends Learn to draw: foliage, primates, insects, flowers, toucan, butterfly

Rain Forest Links
AIRR: Preserve Save an acre of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil List of what is in the rainforest.
Amazon Interactive
Belize Tropical Rainforest
Biomes of the World: Tropical Rainforest List of rainforest.
Chunky Monkey's Rain-forest Friends Three stories about a jaguar, a toucan, and a mystic rainbow.
Earth Foundation: World Rainforest Week
Google Search Results for "Rainforest lesson plans" I have some listed under this area but there are lots more if you go to this above link.
ProTeacher! Rainforest lesson plans for grades K-5
Rain Forest Animals Pictures, sounds, information
Rainforest Action Network: Information Center Including resources for teachers and students.
Rainforest Action Network: Kid's Corner
Rain Forest Theme Unit @ abcteach.com Including printables, games, pictures, facts, activities, songs, and more.
Rainforest Theme
Rainforest Unit - K. Cox Lots of cute ideas.
Rainforest Unit Study For K-8 including: activities, links, printables, games, poems, crafts, books, etc.
Rainforest Lesson Plans @ Teach-nology.com
Rainforest Lesson Plans and Activities for Teachers
Rainforest Teaching Theme - Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Bulletin Board
Tropical Rainforests: Research Links for Students
Vietnam's Tropical Rainforst INFO
Western Rainforest of Belize Animals: Howler Monkey, Coatimundi, Margay, Red Eyed Tree Frog
The Great Kapok Tree @ TeacherView: eduplace
The Teacher's Corner - Teacher Resources: Rainforest

Forest
DLTK'S Forest Animal Crafts for Kids
First-school Forest Animal Theme
Forest Theme @ Everything Preschool
Interactive Quiz Some photos of the forest and animals.
International Paper: Life of the Forest Order FREE educational materials (10 posters, 10 teacher guides, and special booklets) In the U.S. and Canada.
Preschool Education Theme Topic: Forest
Temperate Forests Theme Page Links

Jungle
Asian and African Animals

Fisher-Price Coloring: Jungle Princess
Jungle @ Perpetual Preschool
The Jungle - ChildFun's Animal Activity Themes

Online Rainforest Games
FunBrain.com Rainforest Scramble Game
Online Games | Rainforest Alliance