Last week our class did a theme on Zoo Animals. We washed zoo animals, created zoo homes in play dough, completed art crafts and found zoo animals in therapy putty. The students had a lot of fun with our theme! Hope this blog gives you some ideas to use in your classroom or at your home that are fun and hands-on. Zoo Animal Crafts Monkey Plate Craft: Have students paint paper plate all brown. They can use sponges, fun patterned rollers to give a textured look, with a fork or a regular paint brush. Have some brown or tan circles cut out of construction paper. Students will use glue to add two ears and mouth. Students can either make their own nose & mouth, trace or be given help hand over hand. Use googly eyes for the monkeys eyes. Newspaper Koala Bear: Have students rip up up newspaper pieces and glue onto paper plate. Prior to activity, cut out large gray circles and smaller white circles, a black oval, and small white circles & smaller black circles for the eyes. Students will follow directions of the teachers or use a little x to mark where students need to glue and place pieces. Giraffe Art Craft: Cut out giraffe pieces prior to activity out of construction paper. Use a brown marker to make circles onto the giraffe. Have students color in each circle. Great activity to work on hand writing skills, fine motor and hand-eye coordination. Lion Craft: Using a yellow or orange piece of construction paper, draw a circle on it with a pencil. This will help set up a area for your student or child to know where to paint. Cut out two white circles for the eyes and a triangle (with curved edges) out of black construction paper for the nose. Let the students use a fork to 'paint'. Students will be able to color in the black area on the eyes and trace a mouth. Zoo Animal Washing: Place warm water or warm soapy water into a bin with plastic animals. Students will use sponges or tooth brushes to wash their animals. This is a great activity to work on sensory input, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and learning about different zoo animals. Practice labeling the zoo animals and their sounds they make. We did this with Farm animals too and the students love both! Sensory Play with Shaving Cream- Zoo Animal Footprints: Using plastic Zoo Animals or Wild Animal Counters, place them onto shaving cream. Students will be able to move them around to create foot prints and play with the shaving cream. This is a great activity to give your child or student sensory input, to work on fine motor skills and to learn cause and effect (what happens to the shaving cream when you place an animal on it and move it). Searching For 'Missing' Zoo Animals: Hide little Zoo Counters into therapy putty. Students will then need to use their fine motor skills to move the putty around and pull the animals out. Students can have fun after making prints in the therapy putty. Zoo Animal Homes: Use large or small Popsicle sticks. Have students help you flatten out some play dough. Students will place one of the plastic zoo animals onto the middle of the play dough. Then they will place Popsicle sticks into the play dough around the zoo animal. This is a great activity to work on fine motor skills. Z is for Zebra: This activity is great for working on the letter Z. Cut out a large letter Z out of white construction paper and then cut rectangles of black construction paper. Mark with a pencil little circles where students need to add glue (see above photo). Practice making the Z sound. Some other zoo activities you may enjoy:
Creating homes with blocks and stuffed animals Free Gross Motor Farm Animal Movement Free Animals Home & Clip It Cards Free Monkey Template Pets & Wild Animal Sorting Zoo Counting Cards Freebie Thanks for reading my blog! I hope you enjoyed! Check out my new Spring Emergent Reader book- I See Spring Emergent Reader You may also like some of my spring & farm activities found on my TpT site: Farm Animal Tail Matching Rain Cloud Number Match Spring & Summer Do-A-Dot Freebie Shape Barn Freebie
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