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Rainforest Bulletin Boards Your students can easily create their own rainforest bulletin board. Here are a few suggestions. Prepare your bulletin board with a layer of green construction paper. Or have children to create a background of dense green foliage by cutting leaves from construction paper and stapling them to the board. Rainforest Layers Divide your bulletin board into four layers, using a string and thumb tacks to make lines. Label each layer. Ask students to think about which animals and plants should illustrate each layer and create pictures of them using paper, markers, crayons, etc. Tape, tack, staple, or glue pictures to your board in their correct layers, inserting some of them under your string lines. Biodiversity Board Biodiversity means lots of species and lots of difference among species. A visual image of biodiversity on your bulletin board might include pictures of animals that are really different from one another, like a monkey and a butterfly or a toucan and a frog. Include a hand-written copy of your class' best effort at their own definition of biodiversity. Rainforest Top Ten Make a list of the 10 best things about rainforests and imagine ways to illustrate them with pictures or objects small enough to tack to your board. Include both words and pictures/objects. Rainforest Animals Gallery and Glossary Ask each child to draw a rainforest animal (make assignments to avoid duplicates) on a small sheet of paper and to write a caption describing its most interesting characteristic(s). Have children attach their pictures to the board in alphabetical order. Rainforest Collage This is the most fun and creative way to assemble an amazing rainforest illustration. Ask children to draw and collect materials that vividly represent the rainforest. Include objects like cinnamon sticks and rubber bands, pictures, paper flowers, and even some hard-to-believe facts written with markers on colored paper. Make sure that everyone can explain why each picture or object is on the board. Brainstorm before you begin to inspire students. After-school Project for a Club or Youth Group Build a rainforest in a school hallway. Design your forest to represent a small area in Belize, Brazil, New Guinea, or Africa. Come up with ways to truly represent the rainforest environment. Can you make your model look hot and steamy? Use tissue paper, construction paper, paper bags, and papier-mache to make flowers, insects, animals, birds, and plants. Place animals and plants in locations natural to them; include what can't be easily seen. Make cutouts of leaves and hang them from the ceiling and on walls. Create a giant papier-m'chÈ tree and hang vines made of crepe paper, kraft paper, or old paper bags cut in strips and twisted. Paint murals on kraft paper and attach them to walls with masking tape. Borrow a few philodendrons and snake plants (hardy rainforest natives) from home. Can you create some sound effects? Have you included people working and at home in your forest murals? How are they interacting with the forest and with visitors? Write and illustrate travel brochures describing your forest and the country in which it's located. Develop a "tour," including points of interest and descriptions. Create postcards for tourists (and mail them to friends or family). |
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