Play a tape of rainforest sounds - the rainforest is never quiet. Newspaper Trees Make newspaper trees by taking 3 sheets of newspaper and roll them up overlapping as you go. Tape the bottom. Tribal Faces Get a book on indigenous people of the rainforest and face paint the children to look like the tribal people. Then string beads for tribal necklaces.
Collage Make rainforest collages from rainforest products - coffee, sugar, tea.
As a class activity, the children will be dipping their palms in green paint to make palm prints covering several large sheets of paper. Once dry, these will serve as a background for your class rainforest. As you learn about the rainforest add food, plants, and animals to your mural. In an effort to visually inspire students about the animals of the rainforest, have students construct a variety of simple puppets. The butterfly can be made out of paper cut into a butterfly shape.