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Sponge Paint Giraffe Spots
added 8-28-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Orange paper in the shape of a giraffe, black paint, small sponges or
cotton balls, clothes pegs, styrofoam meat tray
Directions:
Use the clothes pegs as handles and attach a cotton ball or sponge to the
end. Put the paint on a styrofoam meat tray and using the cotton
ball/sponge to dip into paint and dab spots onto the giraffe.
Zebra
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need: Zebra
shape, marble, black paint, box
Directions: One
of my favorite zoo animal activities is to roller ball paint (marble
paint) on a zebra shape with black paint. I use the boxes that canned coke
come in to do this activity. I simply supply the black paint in a shallow
pan, the zebra cut outs, and large marbles.
Zoo Cage
added 2-27-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Shoe
box, straws, clay or toilet paper rolls
Directions: Take
a shoe box-remove lid- punch holes about 14 of inch in along the length of
the box and again on the paralleled side trying to keep holes aligned. Run
a straw through a hole on the top and on the bottom -sit box onto one of
longer side wha la cage. Next allow the children to create an animal out
of clay or toilet paper rolls. Pull up a straw an give the animal a home.
Play-Dough Animals
added 2-27-00
Original Author Unknown
Need: Animal
Cookie cutters, green play dough, paper plate, strawberry basket, glue,
green tissue paper
Directions: Purchase
zoo animal cookies. Have children place three small blobs of green
play-dough onto the middle part of a paper plate. Stand 3 different animal
cookies into the blobs so they are facing outward. Then take a plastic
strawberry basket and put it over top...it looks like the animals are in
cages! I traced the square for the basket with a pencil and put a few
drops of white glue there so the basket wouldn't fall off. The kids
thought this was great. Then you can glue small strips of green tissue
paper on the outer edges of the plate to look like grass.
Thumbprint Monkeys
added 7-17-00
Original Author Unknown
Need:
paper, ink pad, felt tip markers
Directions: Give each child a piece of
construction paper with the outline of a tree
drawn on it. Set out ink pads and felt-tip markers. Let the children make
thumbprint monkeys all over their tree pictures. Have them press a thumb
on an ink pad and make two thumbprints, one above the other, (Touching),
on their papers. Complete monkeys by adding faces, arms, legs and tails
with felt-tip markers.
Elephant Masks
added
4-01-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: large paper
plates, panty hose (stockings), markers or crayons, newspaper or
packing peanuts, elastic
Directions: Take
large paper plate and cut a hole in the middle. Cut one leg of a pair of
panty hose and fill it with scrunched up newspaper or packing peanuts.
Pull
the opened end through the hole in the paper plate and knot it. Decorate
the
rest of the elephant mask with ears, eyes and mouth. You could use elastic
on
the back to hold the mask on.
Another Zebra added
4-01-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: Black or White paper,
and black or white paint, Q-tips
Directions: Cut out a zebra
shape in black and white. Let the kids decide what color
they think a zebra is, then depending on what color they say, give them
black or white paint and some q-tips and they paint stripes on the zebra.
Mount them on the opposite colored paper.
Lion added
2-10-02
Original Author Unknown
Need: Construction paper, glue, scissors,
pipe cleaner, and yarn rice crispies, or yellow paper
Directions: Cut out a circle out of tan
construction paper for the lion's face. Glue on a pink triangle for a
nose, pipe cleaners for whiskers, and draw on eyes.
For his mane (all around the circle) glue small pieces of one
of
the following (they all look great) either rice crispies cereal (I know,
sounds weird, but it looks cool,), yellow strips of paper, or yellow
strips of yarn.
Paper
Bag Elephants added
7-9-02
Original Author Unknown
Need: Paper bag, gray paint, scissors,
paper, glue
Directions:
Cut a large section out of a brown
paper grocery bag. Have the children crumple it up and make it all
wrinkly. Then have them smooth it out flat again and paint with gray
tempera paint. When dry, cut out a large elephant shape out of it. Draw on
the facial features except for the nose. The nose can also be made from
the paper bag painted gray. Accordion fold it after the paint dries and
then glue onto the elephant face.
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