Dear Zoo Book and Toy Gift Set: Lion

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These Dear Zoo story spoons from Crafts on Sea are super easy to make and perfect if you are working with a group You can help your child to think of some adjectives to describe each animal. The elephant can be described as wrinkly, wise or enormous. Another idea for younger children in to model the symbolic noise associated with each animal in the book. As you come across the animals in the book, you should make the associated noise. Place no pressure on your child to copy these noises, but praise him/her if he/she does. After reading the book you can engage in pretend play with your child acting out the animals’ noises and movements. This is a lovely way to develop their pretend play skills.

Toddler Approved have a whole week of zoo learning activities, I think this animal salt painting might be my favourite as it looks so pretty! More Zoo Books Next, take a Nilla wafer and break it in half. Each half will become an ear. Put the ears on the side of the monkey’s head. Explain that we are going to visit Australia Zoo in a few weeks and would like some informationto help us plan our visit.Kids Craft Room shares how to make an articulated snake or this snake craft for kids is great for supporting scissor skills Since he wrote Dear Zoo, he notes that many zoos are now conservation parks and play an important role in wildlife preservation. “The numbers have diminished so much in the wild. But at least we have small populations in zoo-like conditions so, at the very least, we can teach children about them.” When I "read" it, I had a box marked "From the Zoo" (as if the kids could read it) and I would just say the same line over and over again: If you have a copy of Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell you can read it and play with this craft at the same time.

Fantastic Fun and Learning has an edible small world zoo that might just be my favourite activity because marshmallows. We’ve always been a big fan of Tuff Spots and this would be great for that! Simple clauses featuring nouns (zoo)and verbs (wrote, send) e.g.'I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet' Easy Peasy and Fun has a super cute monkey paper plate craft or you could make this handprint monkey from Fun Handprint ArtAs a class, discuss the story, then list and recordanimals in the story and identify theadjective used to describe each animal. Eg. He hopes parents will be able to use the book to talk to their very young children about the challenges that endangered species face. For example, they can discuss the simple message that if you don’t look after the wild animals you love, there will be fewer of them in the future. “And if you do, those animals will always be there.” Another idea for older children is to encourage them to think of the features of each animal. This can be done using a picture based mind map. Get your child to think of adjectives and key words relating to each animal (e.g. elephant – tusk, trunk, big, desert, big, strong). Get a big piece of paper and ask your child to draw an elephant in the middle. Then ask your child to draw pictures relating to the different features around the elephant. Remember you are not looking for perfect pictures! Read the book again but this time ask your child to place the right animal into their box and make it pop up as each animal appears in the book. Collect a range of animal figurines/ toys to match the animals in the book (Lion, Giraffe, Camel, Elephant, Monkey, Snake, Frog, Puppy). As you are reading the book you should introduce each animal toy as you come across them in the story. To support your child’s attention and listening skills, when you re-read the book you should give your child one of the animals and encourage them to hold up the animal when it appears in the book.

He deliberately ends the book with an uplifting message: a huge, final flap, which reveals that, because “kind people” have looked after the whale, it is thriving in the sea. Make this cute giraffe finger puppet from I Heart Crafty Things or this paper bag giraffe inspired by Greedy Steve This wonderful lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo has been a favorite with toddlers and parents alike ever since it was first published. This colourful book excites young readers who love to lift the flaps and discover the animals the zoo has sent—a monkey, a lion, and even an elephant! You can now introduce other sub-categories of animals to your child (e.g. sea animals; farm animals; pets). Go through each sub-category one at a time, encouraging your child to think of animals in each sub-category.

Fold each color paper in half, then in half again, then in half again! You should end up with 8 columns. Adjectives which relate to each animal, e.g.'They sent me an elephant, but he was too big', They sent me a snake, but he was too scary'. But my daughter really loves this book. And my husband told me to lighten up, get off my high horse and "it's only a kids' book. Don't worry about it." So maybe the lift up flaps are great. And how lovely it would be to have a zoo keep sending you animals on demand. Yeah, ok, it's a fab book. When you are re-reading the story, pause for 5 – 10 seconds before you open the flap and name the animal to see if your child can remember which animal comes next in the story. He still remembers the day he came up with the concept for Dear Zoo. “I thought: well, children do like animals, and the flap has got to be legitimate, it’s got to be doing something essential – the content, the text and the flap all have to work together. So what if the flap was a box or something? And I immediately thought of zoos, because when they send an animal from one place to another, it goes in a crate.”