After all of the thumbprints are made, the children should add arms, legs, tails, and heads. When finished children add each verse to the trunk of each corresponding page. Five Monkeys in a Tree Read book. As a math activity choose 5 children to be the monkeys. When finished, children fold green paper like a taco.
Children weave the snakes in and out of the paper.
Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, patterns of different types of laundry labeled with letters, numbers, shapes, etc. Then they choose the wash that their boa ate - if the wash is labeled with letters the children put the letters in alphabetically order, or find the letters in their name. If the wash in labeled with numbers, the children put the wash in numerical order on the snake. On a large piece of yellow paper, draw the outline of a giraffe, add the eye, mouth, and tail also. Have the children tear shapes from brown construction paper.