Today’s challenges are Jungle themed:
1. Make some binoculars using kitchen/toilet roll tubes or rolled up card. Take your binoculars on an imaginative journey outdoors and see what jungle animals you can find!
2. Create your own ‘snake’ craft by painting pasta tubes and threading them on to string.
3. Can you create your own jungle animal craft? Use Pinterest for lots of different ideas!
4. Can you research different animals that live in the jungle? Choose your favourite and create your own animal factfile. Paint or draw a picture of the animal and write down some simple facts about the animals.
5. Younger babies can use a range of animals in paint to create marks on paper. Can you create different footprints? What colours can you explore?
6. Older children can use their fingerprints in paint to create their own ‘fingerprint snake’. Can you create a simple pattern? Red, yellow, red, yellow.
7. Read rumble in the jungle and dear zoo. What animals can you see in the stories? Watch online if you do not have the books! Sing down in the jungle together (or watch online).
8. Use a cardboard box to create your own ‘zoo’. Fill it with natural resources such as grass, leaves, sticks etc and put in some different animals to create your own small world activity. You could use toy animals or draw/paint your own to go inside your zoo.
9. Explore the way different animals move. Can you stomp like an elephant? Slither like a snake? With younger children explore the different animal sounds.
10. Phonics – can you think of an animal that begins with the following letters. T, L, S, G, R and M? Write a list of the animals you think of.
11. Build a tower as tall as a giraffe. How many blocks can you use? How tall is your giraffes neck? Count the blocks as you build. Can you make it as tall as you?
Enjoy!