Saturday, August 25, 2012

Get ready for the...

Zoo!

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you you?
During our last week of preschool we took all the children to the Ross Park Zoo. Before we took our trip, we did some fun zoo activities with the kids.

I got inspired by these animal themed crafts on pinterest and we did a few in our preschool classrooms.

I made animal foot prints out of Styrofoam and the kids made paint prints.

We also made animal cages and created a classroom zoo board:


Pictures were printed and I cut grass pieces for the kids to add. Then they sewed the yarn through holes I had punched in the foam trays. Sewing is a new skill and this activity was good practice. In the future I would like to use magazine cut-outs, particularly from National Geographic magazine, instead of wasting ink printing the pictures. Older children could draw pictures instead.
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  1. A Little NestJanuary 4, 2021 at 5:23 PM

    Why not teach kids about animals in their natural habitats?

    There are so many good books, Youtube read-aloud videos and art project ideas for this in an online search. The zoo isn't all bad, but habitat lessons can be so much more rich with things to learn, and they can teach a sense of wonder for our earth, and foster respect and more interest in the animals as living creatures.

    So we don't just think that these more exotic animals are just there for us to go and look at in a zoo.

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