Dear Zoo 8-inch Monkey

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Zoos provide a sanctuary for animals who have been mistreated. There are specialists who work in zoos to help those poorly or injured. While the children are lying quietly, you tell them that when the music starts and they wake up, they will be bouncing kangaroos, snappy crocodiles or tiny mice. You turn the music on for half a minute or so and then they all lie down asleep, ready to be turned into another animal. We made this elephant suncatcher as an Elmer craft but by using grey colours instead of (lots!) of colours for Elmer it would work well as a Dear Zoo craft. If you would like to explore role-play with your group or are looking to hold an animal-based party, we have these zoo role-play masks. Simply print them onto a strong paper, cut them out and feed some string into the sides of them. Your class can enjoy stomping around in their own little Kingdom!

The bright animal drawingsprovide more informationto the reader and 'clues'.Each animal is presented in a different way (e.g.a crate, box, basket),and each child can see a glimpse of the animal to enable them to predict whichanimal it might be. As a class, discuss the story, then list and recordanimals in the story and identify theadjective used to describe each animal. Eg. 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! If you have a copy of Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell you can read it and play with this craft at the same time.Add the nose and mouth on the Nilla wafer with your edible marker and voila! You’re done! They’re almost too cute to eat! Dear Zoo” was written as a lift-the-flap board book in 1982, by the Scottish author, Rod Campbell. It is his most famous work, and thirty-five years later, it is still tremendously popular among the under fives in Great Britain, and has been translated into more than a dozen different languages. It's simple, repetitive, beautifully descriptive and, perhaps best of all, funny. It is a great read aloud and a great one to read to a child sitting on your lap,the two stylesnot always being the case. Keep up to date with our store, social media, blogs and live feeds where we will be introducing you to our partners, showcasing our toys and hearing the expert’s voice on all things childhood! We will regularly be trying out our toys, carrying out teacher led activities and just watching our children play to give you helpful hints and tips on how to get the most out of your toys and child’s learning development. They educate the public on a huge array of animals. You can learn a lot from signage when walking around a zoo, making it educational and fun.

Young children will love lifting the flaps to discover the animals the zoo has sent – a monkey, a lion and even an elephant! But will they ever manage to send the perfect pet? Our toys support all areas of cognitive development and target all areas of the National Curriculum. Our values are firmly rooted in play, we believe that all children should be able to express themselves freely through play and it’s our role to provide them with the best equipment and the best environment to do so. Why not split your class into groups and give them an animal to discuss each. They can talk about where they might have seen them, or where in the world you might find them. Another great topic of discussion could be which of the animals would make good pets and why! You could even have a go at drawing the animals yourselves. Explain that we are going to visit Australia Zoo in a few weeks and would like some informationto help us plan our visit.

'Dear Zoo' storybook summary

If you love reading zoo animal books with your kids then these are some more we think you might enjoy! We’ve gathered a lovely bunch of ‘Dear Zoo’ activities for nursery children above to help support your teaching of the brilliant storybook, ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. From picture cards, PowerPoints, games, posters and more, you're sure to find the perfect resource for you and your class. Incorporating these lovely activities after reading the storybook is a great way to engage children further with the story and help bring it to life! All of our activities have been designed with EYFS children in mind and help children master new skills. Whether you’re looking to expand vocabularies, unleash your creativity, help with counting skills, or simply fancy a fun way to pass the time, we got ya covered. Have a nosey at some of our favourite ‘Dear Zoo’ and animal-related activities below: 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

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. First, decide on the pattern you’d like to make for your snake. We chose three colors, but you could choose however many you’d like! This is a great opportunity to practice making patterns. This story is a fun introduction to animals and their characteristics. It is written in the first person, with repetitive sentences. The nature of repetitiveness enables young readers to predict and engage with the story. However the Dear Zoo: Noisy book is well nigh perfect. It includes the fun element of flaps, teaches both the names of the animals and how to identify them. It invites questions such as: “How big is the crate?” and “What sort of animal might fit inside there?” It uses language with simple repetition, but also creatively. It has clear, attractive and humorous line drawings in bold colours. Regardless. Is it a bit hypocritical of me to be endorsing this book, based on my ethical beliefs that animals are not toys to be swapped, sold on, imprisoned or treated as inanimate objects, blah, blah, blah. Am I delivering a dark, subconscious message of irresponsibility to my child when I read her this?

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Is it munch munch munch? Or you can search the internet together to find out. What words can they think of to describe each animal? The lift-the-flaps make it engaging and suspenseful read both ways. At home we used to make the animal sounds to match and depending on your group size, you can try that at school. With numbers over 30 in each group, I haven't gone there yet. These zoo handprint animals are so easy to do and are lots of fun to make – they also make for great keepsakes! Here’s how we made ours:

But this book has a delightful extra feature. It is a “noisy” book! And I can assure you (because I’ve done this myself) that if you accidentally sit on it, you will find that it might trumpet at you, or chatter like a monkey, or even (and this is a bit scary if you’re not expecting it!) even hiss like a snake! As he hasn't ruled out one day becoming a zookeeper, Ben found the premise of this book intriguing; a kid writes a letter to the zoo and gets free stuff. Sounds great, right? After all, he's currently unemployed and can't very well buy his own things, let alone afford a pet. Also there's flaps and those always blow his mind. This Zoo Animals Writing Frames resource is perfect for budding writers. Each sheet comes with a lovely illustration to prompt all our little poets, writer and dreamers to conjure their own tales, rhymes, or write a lovely note to someone. 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.Fold each color paper in half, then in half again, then in half again! You should end up with 8 columns. We'veplayed Sleepi ng Animals which is requires everyone to lie down firstly, pretending to be fast asleep. Painted Animal Features– add any main colour features at this point (it’s really important to do this straight away if you have used your own colour mix of paint else you will find yourself spending ages trying to get the same colour as we did!)