Australia Map

A good idea for learning geography. Requires some drawing skill, a big table and a small number of kids to start off with. Kids work together to draw native animals and land marks they know about. They also use an atlas to locate and name the capital cities. This activity can be transferred to any country!

Felt Animals

Felt Animals

This is a good activity for children if you a learning about a particular country and their native animals or you are learning about types of animals such as mammals, reptiles or birds.

Materials Needed

• Different coloured felt, fabric or paper.
• Glue
• Scissors
• Animal outline or colouring pages.

Method

• Using the felt pieces or scrap fabric cut into different shapes to fit on animal
• You can either stick with how the animal is coloured like a Tiger or Zebra.
• Or you can make colourful new animals.

This example has used corrugated card for the animal and felt for the scene.