Rainforest Activities

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Rainforest Newsletter

Our Rainforest for Kids activities include a FREE Animal Action Pack so you can build your own rainforest scene.

If you check out my page on homeschool science you'll see loads of ideas:

• Paint a rainforest scene
• Craft a fold-out pitcher plant
• Listen to the sounds of the rainforest
• Make your own bromeliad out of a pineapple
• Field Trips to a rainforest biome

The free Rainforest Resource pack has:

• Rainforest backgrounds
• Beautiful rainforest animal photos incl. macaw, ocelot, toucan etc.
  
• Rainforest drawings to color in - sloth, tiger, etc.

Download your free Rainforest Animal Action Pack

• You can also go to this page to get free worksheets and printables so you can build your own rainforest

Books

Sabrina from my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group recommends this All About Rainforests book from The Thinking Tree for ages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12.

If you're in the US and looking for something for Grades 7-8, Fauzia from my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group recommends this book to help learn about the geography, climate and animals. (Not an affiliate link).

Rainforest In A Bottle

This site has a fun and simple project where you create a simple bottle rainforest with a fern and some moss and add one of your children's favorite plastic rainforest animals.

If that project sounds exciting, we had great fun making a terrarium which is still thriving thirteen years later!

Rainforest Trail Cam

You can take a virtual field trip to the rainforest in this video: 1,000 Hours in the Jungle. It's fun watching the animals appear and disappear in a natural way.

Free Factsheets And Lesson Plans

Fauzia from my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group recommends a UK charity called the Young People's Trust for the Environment for free lesson plans, ideas and factsheets.

Rainforest Diorama

Make a rainforest diorama based on our ocean diorama.

Although this sounds like something for younger children, older kids will be able to complete a much more sophisticated project. Also, dioramas can be fiddly!

I saw this done using a circular slot in the back of the shoe box to make a howler monkey swing through the trees. It's the same idea we used to make a pterosaur fly in kindergarten activities.

You can also find out how to make a terrarium for carnivorous plants!

Free Clip Art

Use some free clip art to liven up your projects or any writing you do. You can see examples of free clip art I've used on this page.

I find Pixabay is the best site for copyright free images.  You'll find this lemur looking at you along with plenty of other rainforest images.  

Older Kids Origami

Have a go at this jumping frog.  You'll see some people have found it a bit fiddly, but we tried it and managed O.K.

Children Of The Rainforest

It helps to hear from the children who live there.  Here are some stories from real children who live in the rainforest.

WWF: Save The Rainforest

Click here to see WWF's work to save the Amazon.

Visit A Rainforest

Rainforests aren't always as far away as you think! If you live in the US, Craig from my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook group suggests visiting Oregon. The State has a temperate rainforest in the Valley of the Giants.

UK-wise, our family really enjoyed visiting the Eden Project with the world's largest indoor rainforest biome.

And a homeschool family has this exciting news to share:

Lorna's children even interviewed a tiger biologist to find out about her job. Do watch their interview; the tiger biologist is so inspiring and you'll be pleased to know she decided what she wanted to do with her life when she was 10 years old:

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