![]() This Rain Forest Layer- the Understory- is the next layer up from the forest floor. Return To Top Rain Forest Understory Activities Use these to decorate and theme your room into the different rain forest layers. Provide leaf shaped stencils for the children to draw leaves and then color with crayons, markers or colored pencils. Place paper over leaves and have the children rub with crayons to reveal the leaf. Promote tracing and pencil holding skills! Place the top part of the bottle onto this. Pour about a cup of water around the plant. Spread a tin layer of charcoal over the gravel.įill will potting soil to about an inch below the top of the bottle.Ĭreate a hole in center of soil and place plant in. Line the bottle on the bottom with plastic wrap. Cut away the top part of the bottle just before is stops flaring out. In advance: Remove label from the soda bottle. Materials needed: 2 liter soda bottle, gravel, charcoal, potting soil, plastic wrap, small plant (such as prayer plant, baby tears, artillery plant) and duct tape. Provide plastic tongs for them to remove the bugs and place them into cups! Let the children explore them and sort them by different attributes (color, size, with wings, without wings, etc.)ĮAdd lots of plastic bugs, including ants, to dirt or soil in your sensory table. Provide a wide variety of plastic bugs and several bowls. Provide rain forest floor pictures in duplicates for the children to match or use as a memory/concentration game. Place them on a table for the children to match and sort. ![]() Have the children find leaves while outside. Provide small sponge brushes for the children to use to make bug prints! This is a favorite activity in our classroom! ![]() Have the children (or one child at a time) close their eyes and you take one item away. Show them to the children and discuss them. Some ideas are plastic bugs, snakes, flowers, grass, etc. WHAT'S MISSING FROM THIS RAIN FOREST LAYER?īring a variety of forest floor items to circle time. They (when dry) cut on the black line and you will have a very long snake to hang from your ceilings!Īdd egg cartons and plastic bugs to your block area for some creepy, crawly block creations! The children paint or decorate their snake. Materials Needed: Paper with a circular snake drawn on it with a black permanent marker paint or markers and crayons Don't limit them to red and black ladybugs! You just never know what creations they'll come up with! Show the children pictures of ladybugs and then let them create their own. Materials Needed: white paper plates black, red and a variety of other colors of paint googly eyes small and large brushes.
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