Green Kid! Rainforest. GreenKidCrafts.com. a create, play, and learn activity guide for kids. Issue 3 October $5.

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1 Green Kid! a create, play, and learn activity guide for kids Rainforest Issue 3 October 2013 $5.95 list price

2 GREEN KID! ACTIVITY GUIDE - Complete step-by-step directions for tons of fun and educational activities, lesson plans, and more related to a new and exciting monthly theme. Every month Green Kid Crafts subscribers get an exclusive, award-winning activity guide (a $5.95 value!). Each Green Kid! Activity Guide is designed by early education experts around a new and exciting theme intended to teach kids about the world around them as they have fun, flex their creativity, and build confidence through innovative, open-ended projects, puzzles, games, reading lists, and more! Our Rainforest Green Kid! Activity Guide is all about exploring and learning about this amazing ecosystem! TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Cover 2. Fun Facts about the Rainforest 3. Rainforest Coloring Map 4. What is hidden in the Rainforest? 5. Rainforest Habitat Craft 6. The different layers of the Rainforest 7. Gorilla Maze 8. My Snake 9. Rainforest Terrarium Activity 10. Rainforest Story Starter 11. Measuring Snake Craft 12. Rainstick Activity 13. Rainforest Word Search Rainforest Matching Game 16. Red Eyed Tree Frog Craft 17. Rainforest Cookies Rainforest Reading List 22. Green Kid Challenge

3 RAINFOREST FACTS FUN FACTS ABOUT THE RAINFOREST Let it Rain: Rainforests are just forests that experience a high level of rainfall. The Frontier: Scientists believe that there may be millions of plant and insect species in rainforests that have yet to be discovered. The Power of Plants: Over 25% of natural medicines have been discovered in rainforests. Save the Trees: Rainforests used to cover 14% of the Earth s surface but due to deforestation now only cover around 6%. Rainforest Tribes: A number of tribes in areas such as central Africa and Brazil still live in rainforests, having no contact with the outside world. Biodiversity: A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies. From Rainforest to Home: Many of the things we have in our homes comes from the rainforest. These include: chocolate, sugar, spices (ginger, allspice, pepper, cinnamon, coconut, vanilla, turmeric), rubber, pineapples, and bamboo.

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5 WHAT IS HIDDEN IN THE RAINFOREST? Find all the pictures (on the right) hidden in the Amazon Rainforest.

6 Rainforest Habitat 1. SUPPLY LIST - burlap - colorful felt pieces - buttons - scissors - additional decorations - pipe cleaners, yarn, whatever sounds fun 2. INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Cut burlap to the size you want. Begin cutting the felt to make a tree trunk and leaves. 3. Step 2: Glue the leaves and trunk to the burlap. Then add felt grass to the bottom of the burlap. Step 3: Make animals out of buttons, felt, pipe cleaners, etc. We made a monkey :) 4. Step 4: We put bananas in the tree with pipe cleaners and made a sun out of felt. A toucan in a tree would be great too!

7 Describe the different things you can find in each layer of the Rainforest. Emergent Layer Canopy Understory Forest Floor

8 Help the gorilla find its dinner!

9 My Snake 1. SUPPLY LIST - panty hose - newspaper or scrap paper - red felt - glue - googly eyes - paper - paints (optional) 2. INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Cut one leg of the panty hose off. Step 2: Stuff the panty hose with newspaper or scrap paper to fill in the body of the snake. Tie off once your snake is full of paper. 3. Step 4: Cut felt to make a tongue for your snake and then glue it on, along with some googly eyes. Step 5: Decorate with paint and glitter. 4.

10 Rainforest Terrarium 1. SUPPLY LIST - jar with lid - dirt or potting soil - rocks/gravel - little plants 2. INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Fill the jar with alternating layers of gravel and dirt. Step 2: Put little plants into the jar, like moss and flowers collected from outdoors. Step 3: Add some fun rocks. We put a little parrot in it too :) Step 4: Set the jar in direct sunlight and after a few days you will see the water cycle in action as condensation forms on the jar

11 Rainforest Story Starter Write a story below about visiting the rainforest. Tell what you might see and who you might meet.

12 Measuring Snake 1. SUPPLY LIST - construction paper - googly eyes - ruler - scissors - glue 2. INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Trace the shape of a snake about the length of the ruler onto the paper. Cut the snake out. 3. Step 2: To decorate, cut different shapes out of construction paper and glue them onto the body of the snake. Step 3: Add the eyes and using the ruler as a guide, write units of measurement on your snake. Now you can have your child measure things in snake lengths.

13 Rainstick 1. SUPPLY LIST - scissors - paper towel tube - duct/packaging tape - rice - aluminum foil 2. INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Tape one end of tube closed. Step 2: Make a mini accordion out of foil and put it into the tube. Step 3: Add rice to the tube. 3. Step 4: Cover the top with more tape. Then you can cover your rain stick with paper and decorate. Then turn over and over and listen to the soothing sounds of rain! 4. Find more more DIY ideas on Facebook! facebook.com/greenkidcrafts

14 Rainforest Word Search

15 Red Eyed Tree Frog 1. SUPPLY LIST - paper plate - red/green/orange construction paper - green paint - scissors - glue 2. INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Paint the inside of the plate green. If you can find a green paper plate then skip this step. Step 2: Cut out oval eyes for the frog from the red paper. Draw pupils and glue the eyes to the top of the plate. Step 3: Cut out four green legs with orange feet and glue together. Then glue to your frog Step 4: Cut out a red tongue and glue on the center of the plate.

16 Rainforest Animal Matching

17 Play this fun Rainforest animal matching game by printing each set of animal images. Cut out the individual squares, flip them all over, and start matching! Orangatang Iguana Gorilla Lemur Parrot Blue Morpho Anteater Tarantula Tree Frog

18 Rainforest Cookies This recipe includes many ingredients that are found in rainforests, including cinnamon, banana, sugar, vanilla, coconut, chocolate, and cashews INSTRUCTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. Whisk flours, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. 3. Use an electric mixer to beat butter, banana, and sugars until creamy. 4. Mix in eggs and coconut. 5. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture at a time, mixing after each addition. 6. Stir in chocolate chips and cashews (if using). 7. Drop by spoonful onto parchment paper-covered baking sheet. 8. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown. Enjoy! Ingrediants 1 1/4 cups white wheat flour 1 cup all purpose flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp cinnamon 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), softened 1 ripe banana, mashed 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 cup chopped cashews (optional) P.S. This makes a lot of cookies! We only baked a third of them. For the other 2/3 we put a baking sheet of unbaked cookies in the freezer to flash freeze then put them in a freezer bag. That way we can pull some out and pop them in the oven (no need to thaw) anytime we want cookies.

19 Reading List! The Rainforest Grew All Around, Susan K. Mitchell Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back down again, following the circle of life in this clever adaptation of the song The Green Grass Grew All Around. The jungle comes alive as children learn about a wide variety of the animals and plants living in the lush Amazon rainforest. The Umbrella, Jan Brett A walk through the Costa Rican cloud forest provides a wonderfully lush setting for Jan Brett s beloved animal illustrations. When Carlos drops his umbrella to climb a tree for a better view of the animals, they all cram into the banana-leaf umbrella as it floats by--from the little tree frog to the baby tapir to the big jaguar and more.

20 Reading List! The Great Kapok Tree, Lynne Cherry The author journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book. One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest s residents whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how all living things depend on one another... and it works. Over in the Jungle, Marianne Berkes Kids will sing, clap, and count their way among monkeys that hoot, ocelots that pounce, parrots that squawk, and boas that squeeze! It will not take much to have your child joyfully hooting and squawking too. And the illustrations are painstakingly all done in polymer clay and then photographed, giving a 3-D effect. If I Ran the Rain Forest, Bonnie Worth The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for an umbrella-vator ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way.

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