<![CDATA[www.123playandlearn.com - Zoo]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:04:51 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Blue Hen Chicken Collage]]>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:00:05 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/blue-hen-chicken-collage
Supplies:
Construction paper
Glue
Markers, crayons, or colored paper
Googley eyes (optional)

Directions:
Cut, rip, or tear construction paper and glue on to paper to create a blue hen chicken. Use a writing utensil to add details.
]]><![CDATA[Gorilla Hands]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:23:39 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/gorilla-hands
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Suggested Reading list:
Actually Size
by Jim Jenkins (http://www.amazon.com/Actual-Size-Steve-Jenkins/dp/0547512910)
Amazing Gorillas!
by Sarah L. Thomson (http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Gorillas-Can-Read-Book/dp/0060544619 )
Koko’s Kitten
by Dr. Francine Patterson and photography
by Ronald H. Cohn
 (http://www.amazon.com/Kokos-Kitten-Reading-Rainbow-Book/dp/0590444255




Supplies:
  • Black paper
  • White paper
  • White paint
Directions: Cut out a large gorilla shaped hand from the black paper. (an actual gorilla hand print can be seen at http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/export/sites/default/common/documents/Education/Gorilla_hand_print.pdf). 
Glue the cut-out hand print to the white construction paper. Paint or press hand in white paint. Then, press painted hand onto black gorilla hand. Compare the differences in hand sizes.

*Those from Washington state may want to take this opportunity to share about Ivan, the gorilla that lived almost 27 years in a concrete enclosure at the B & I store in Tacoma.
]]><![CDATA[Animal Puppets]]>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:06:25 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/animal-puppets
     Puppets are a useful tool to help children express emotion. Let them create some puppets or give them some that have already been prepared. Ask them to create a story to act out with the puppets. Puppets help children act out social scenarios and express problems they have faced.
]]><![CDATA[Animal Activities]]>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:04:35 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/animal-activities
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Cow Mask
Imaginative play is important for brain development. Creating a mask and pretending to be an animal may spark questions such as, what would this animal do? Where does the animal live? What do they eat?
We made our mask out of a paper plate and string. We colored a face and added a little bit of tulle as grass. 
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P is for Pig
This activity can be used for any word. "O" for octopus, "F" for fish, etc.  Give the children a letter and allow them to be creative with things that start with that letter. 
Example: Things to give children while creating with the letter P, pennies, pink, prickly, etc. 
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Yarn Lamb
      This sensory project allows children to feel the soft "wool" as they wrap the yarn around the lamb. This activity also promotes hand movement and muscle growth. Cut out a foam sheep. Allow children to give their  sheep an eyeball and its fur. 
]]><![CDATA[Fun Paper Plate Projects]]>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:07:21 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/fun-paper-plate-projects
Literacy extension to “Owl Moon” by Jane Yolen and for animals, “The Carnival of the Animals" (Book and CD)Jack Prelutsky(Author), Camille Saint-Saens (Creator), Mary GrandPre (Illustrator)
]]><![CDATA[Zoo Animals and Letter Match]]>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:55:05 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/zoo-animals-and-letter-matchThe Zoo is filled with animals found in the alphabet!  Here is a game to play connecting first sounds with animals in the zoo.
Read the book: Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Materials needed: Cut out pictures of animals in the zoo for each letter of the alphabet. On 3x5 index cards write each letter in lower case. (We use lower case first, because most of the words they will learn will be begin with a lower case letter.) Laminate or contact paper the animals and letter cards.
NOTE: When teaching phonetics choose animals whose name begins with a letter sound of only one letter. So you would probably not use “giraffe” if using this tool to support phonetics in the early stages. Because the “g” sound in “giraffe” is the same as “j.”
Instructions: Place the animals and letter in two small baskets. Go through each animal and help the child find the first letter sound of the animal’s name.

NOTE: As children become proficient in their understanding of phonetics you can expand knowledge by looking for last letter sounds. Go through each letter card and sound it out.

Have the child choose either a letter or an animal. Place it on the table in front of them. Repeat the first letter in the name of the animal, or the letter on the card.
Support children as they find the animal or letter to match their initial choice of an animal or letter.

Extension: Once children understand and can do this game on their own, have them work in pairs.
]]><![CDATA[Paper Plate Lion]]>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:37:17 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/paper-plate-lion
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]]><![CDATA[My Zoo Book]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 04:05:39 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/my-zoo-book

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Read the book: Children's Books: “Zoo” by Land of Nod
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Materials needed:
  • construction paper
  • markers/crayons
  • scissors
  • animal pictures
  • glue
Description: Use one piece of construction on the top and one on the bottom. Add as many pieces of white paper to color at least 5 papers.

Have five sets of animals for each child. Place an animal picture on each page of the children’s books.
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Let the children color a picture about what the animals is doing. As children dictate their story write it down on the page.
]]><![CDATA[Paper Plate Giraffe]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:47:59 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/paper-plate-giraffe

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]]><![CDATA[5 Little Monkeys]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:45:23 GMThttps://www.123playandlearn.com/zoo/5-little-monkeysHere is Fun Way to Play 5 Little Monkeys!
Read the book:
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree
A Five Little Monkeys Story by Eileen Christelow
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The video above was produced by Successful Solutions own advanced level trainer and CDA Advisor, Debra Hasbrook, M.Ed.

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Materials needed:
  • tongue depressors
  • glue
  • cut out pictures of monkeys and an alligator
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Directions: Glue each picture to a tongue depressor.

Instructions: Either you can hold the puppets, or let each child have a puppet and play along. The one with the alligator always has fun!
As you say the rhyme let the alligator eat a monkey. Have fun and count wrong sometimes. The kids love it when they correct you and everyone laughs and has a good time.
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