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21 Educational Safari Crafts And Activities For Kids

February 9, 2023 // by Monique de Villiers

It’s time to teach your students about the wonderful world of African animals and the best way to go about this is by taking your students on a safari adventure! These 21 educational safari crafts and activities for kids will help you bring the wonders of the wild into your classroom.

From creating your own safari animal crafts to action-packed wild animal activities, these projects will spark your student’s imagination and bring the outdoors indoors. Let’s get started!

1. Create Your Own Animal Hand Puppets

Crafting animal hand puppets is an excellent way to get your students enthused about their favorite animal and have a blast in the process. They can discover different species and their behavior while constructing their own puppets using paper bags and pattern printouts.

Learn More: Simple Mom Project

2. Make a Safari Sensory Bin

By exploring the bin with sand, figurines, and other items, kids can learn about the natural world in a fun and engaging way. They’ll get to experience animal-themed fun while discovering different species and learning more about their behavior.

Learn More: Toddler at Play

3. Jungle Animal Math Puzzles

Jungle animal math puzzles are an exciting way for your students to learn math! With colorful illustrations and interesting puzzles, kids can explore the jungle while learning math concepts in an enjoyable and interactive manner.

Learn More: The Kindergarten Connection

4. Wildlife Coloring Pages

Wildlife coloring pages are educational for children as they introduce them to different species of animals, including those found on an African safari. This helps to spark an interest in nature and promotes a love for wildlife at a young age.

Learn More: Super Coloring

5. Play Animal Memory Games

Animal memory games are educational for children as they enhance their memory and concentration skills while providing an enjoyable experience. These games are a fun way for kids to learn about different animals and their characteristics; making them an effective educational activity.

Learn More: The Purposeful Nest

6. Make a Safari Scene

Making a safari scene is a great craft activity for children as it allows them to use their imagination and creativity while learning about African animals and their habitats. This fun and educational experience help to bring their knowledge to life and fosters a love for wildlife.

Learn More: Busy Bee Kids Crafts

7. Complete a Safari Scavenger Hunt

A safari scavenger hunt is an educational experience that combines exploration, discovery, and learning about jungle safari animals. Children get to identify animals based on their descriptions and tracks; helping them develop their observation skills and learn about animal sounds.

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8. Design an Animal Habitat

This craft is a fun way for children to learn about the various habitats of different African safari animals and their adaptations. Using materials such as paper, scissors, and a glue stick, children can create unique and imaginative homes for their favorite animals.

Learn More: Explore Planet English

9. Safari Animal Plates

This creative craft activity teaches children about different African safari animals and their physical characteristics. By transforming paper plates into their favorite safari animals, kids get to engage in hands-on learning and bring their favorite safari activities to life.

Learn More: First Palette

10. Play Safari I Spy

This is an educational activity that helps to develop little one’s observation skills and knowledge of zoo animals. These print-and-go activities provide a fun and interactive way for kids to learn as they search for, and identify, various animals in the picture.

Learn More: Mrs. Merry

11. Safari Animal Origami

Safari animal origami is a fun and educational craft activity for children that helps to develop their motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity. By folding paper into different African safari animals, kids get to learn about the animal’s physical characteristics and bring them to life.

Learn More: Simple Origami Ideas

12. Safari Animal Sand Art

This activity promotes creativity and imagination. Kids get to learn about different amazing animals in the jungle and express themselves by creating colorful sand art pictures. This is a great way to bring their knowledge of the jungle and its animals to life.

Learn More: In The Playroom

13. Make a Safari Lapbook

This hands-on activity allows children to learn about a variety of safari animals and their habitats. By creating a lap book filled with informational cards, kids get to engage in a multi-sensory experience and retain their knowledge of the animals and their environments.

Learn More: Trying 2 Walk Wisely

14. Play Safari Charades

Safari animal charades are an entertaining activity for children that helps to develop their motor skills, creativity, and communication skills. By acting out different African safari animals, such as a slithery snake, kids get to engage in imaginative play and improve their ability to express themselves.

Learn More: Kid ADL

15. Put Together a Safari Collage

This activity combines crafting and learning about African jungle animals. By creating a handprint collage, children get to engage in hands-on learning and express their creativity- making it a great choice for educational crafts for kids.

Learn More: Fun Handprint Art Blog

16. Safari Animal Clay Creations

Help your students to learn about the different kinds of animals they would find on an African safari. By following a tutorial and painting their own versions of the animals, kids will get to express their creativity and enhance their understanding of the animals and their habitats.

Learn More: Art Station

17. Draw a Safari Scene

Teach your students the concept of animal camouflage in the African savannahs and jungles. By following this easy drawing tutorial, kids get to express their creativity and enhance their understanding of how animals blend in with their environment for protection.

Learn More: Crafty Prapty

18. Safari Animal Cookies

Learn about African safari animals while baking some delicious treats. By following a recipe and creating their own animal cracker cookies, children get to express their creativity and enhance their understanding of the animals in a delicious and engaging way.

Learn More: Sally’s Baking Addiction

19. Create a Safari Shadow Box

Have some fun with shadows while teaching your students about the wonder of African wild animals. Show your students how to make a giraffe head and other animals with their hands, and give them interesting facts as they play.

Learn More: Emma Owl

20. Safari Animal Paper Bag Puppet

Children can make their own animal puppets using paper sacks and adding details like googly eyes, noses, and mouths to bring the puppet to life. This activity helps with hand-eye coordination and imagination and allows kids to learn about different animals and their unique features.

Learn More: The Happy Scraps

21. Safari Animal Word Search

If you’re looking for a fun and educational quiet-time activity for your students, this safari animal word search may be a good option for your classroom. Teach your students about the different African safari animals while they work passively.

Learn More: The Word Search

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30 Days of Safari Preschool Activities and Crafts

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It’s time for a Safari Adventure! Throughout this month of activities, you and your little one will learn about giraffes, hippos, going on a Safari, and more! Animals galore, arts and crafts, and beautiful books will greet you in this Activity Plan. We hope you enjoy these Safari preschool activities and crafts!

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Book recommendations for Safari Preschool Activities:

One of Little Miss’ favorite stories, Library Lion is a sweet story about reading and lions. Great for story time! Check out our other favorite Lion books in our Lion Activity Plans.

Safari Set is a nice board book for our little kiddos. It is a nice introduction to the big animals of the Safari.

Little Miss really loved this story ! It was a great addition for our Jeep project, too!

We absolutely love Julia Donaldson’s books and this one did not disappoint! Not only is the story fun, but it introduces you to several safari animals that aren’t necessarily the popular ones!

Little Miss loved this book, too! We read this book so many times throughout our hippo week. Check out the activity we did with it in our hippo activity plans!

Little Miss always likes her National Geographic Kids books . The pictures are always great and they teach some fun facts, too!

toy recommendations for Safari Preschool Activities:

Schleich animals are always our favorites. While they may seem a little more expensive, the quality makes them worth it for us! This set is a great starter for Safari animals!

This set is another nice Schleich option for several Safari animals!

This Melissa and Doug puzzle is the perfect addition to Safari week! Little Miss still loves to do this one!

While we personally do not have this Magna-Tiles set , it is on our wish list. Magna-Tiles are a great addition to any playroom, so I’m sure this one would be great if your toddler loves them as much as Little Miss does!

We have the shapes addition of Melissa and Doug’s shape sorting truck and it is one of Little Miss’ favorite toys, so this one would be another great option for Safari week!

If quantity over quality is the name of the game for you (which isn’t a bad idea when you have toddler’s that “misplace” things often!), then this set of Safari animals would be a great starting point for your animal collection!

Safari activities for toddlers:

giraffe safari activities for preschoolers

5 giraffe activities to get you off to a great start! Make an awesome giraffe rain stick, learn about how tall giraffes are, read and play, exercise your creativity, and practice the letter “G” all in one week! Check out the whole Giraffe Activity Plan here:

How to Do 5 Awesome Giraffe Activities With Toddlers

hippo safari activities for preschoolers

Another of the famous safari animals is the mighty hippo! Did you know hippos can be 15 feet long? Learn this and more with this week long activity plan that includes learning the letter “H”, making your own hippo game, playing with playdough and hippos, and more! Check it out here:

Super Cute and Fun Hippo Toddler Activities

Let’s go on an alphabet safari! Print out your own safari cards with the full game instructions here!

animal lineup safari preschool activities

Activities involving patterns, ordering, and counting are all important for early math skills. Using safari animals to practice these skills is a great way to do so through play! Here are some ideas:

Line up all the animals and then ask questions like “who is in the front?” “who is behind the elephant?”
Divide the animals evenly between you and your toddler. Put your animals in a pattern and then have your toddler copy the pattern.
Put all the animals in a pattern and then remove 2 or 3 from the line. Ask your toddler to put them in the correct place to complete the pattern.
Ask you toddler to group all the same animals together. Then ask them who has the most and least.
Count the animal groups.

Let’s make safari cookies! Sugar cookies are so fun to make with toddlers and they are so easy, too! Get some safari cookie cutters like these or these and make some adorable safari themed cookies. (We have the first set, which Little Miss loved, but they aren’t as durable as metal ones like the second set listed.)

Making sugar cookies allows our little ones to practice fine motor skills as they roll out the dough and cut the shapes. You can also use this time to talk more about animals and what color they are, what noises they make, etc.

If you are looking for a nice, quick activity, this one has got you covered.

Show your toddler how they can line up the paper clips to figure out the distance between each animal. Talk about how many paper clips it takes to get from the giraffe to the hippo, hippo to elephant, and elephant to giraffe. Ask them questions such as, “Which one is the furthest? How do you know?” They may need some help to figure this out, but this is great for introducing them to early math skills! When you are done, let them make a paper clip train, just for fun!

If you are going on a Safari, you want to see some animals! Make these cute and fun binoculars to see the animals with!

Using binoculars is a great way to practice coordination and motor skills. It also makes looking for things more fun! Use these for other activities throughout Safari month, such as looking for animals, letters, and more!

“I” is for Ice Cream, of course! When you are on a Safari, it can get pretty hot, so you will need to stop for a cool snack. But you better eat fast or your ice cream will melt! Learn a new technique for painting and practice recognizing the letter “I” with this super sweet activity !

Learn the letter J with this fun and easy J is for Jeep activity! Free template makes it easy to complete!

Check it out here !

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Safari Crafts and Activities

Safari crafts and activities are a great way to keep the kids entertained this Summer while learning lots of new things about animals and wildlife. A big thank you to our friends at Melissa & Doug for sponsoring our wild adventures while we celebrated “Safari Week” here at home! These safari crafts and activities are easy to set up, fun to do, and the perfect way to add a bit of special excitement to your Summer days.

Here are some of our favorite safari crafts and activities:

1. safari sticker-by-number.

Don’t let a little rain get in the way of your wild animal fun! These stained glass made easy and sticker-by-numbers sets from Melissa & Doug are perfect for a rainy day project while working on important fine-motor skills and number recognition.

2. Put on a Wild Animal Puppet Show

We found this pack of animal hand puppets from Melissa & Doug works very well for this! Draw up a storyboard, write a script, and craft up some scenery. Lots of imaginative storytelling fun!

3. Read Storybooks about Animals

Some of our favorites are: How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, I’d Really Like to Eat a Child, and Giraffes Can’t Dance

4. Go on a Picnic Breakfast Adventure

Pack up your favorite cereal, some spoons, a bottle of milk, and some fresh fruit to enjoy at your favorite park in the morning before the weather gets too hot. After, go on a hike to see how many different kinds of animals you may be able to spot.

5. Visit Your Local Zoo

Take a field trip to visit your local zoo, learn more about wildlife, and have up-close encounters with amazing animals. Try to come up with one new question about each animal, and research for answers when you get back home.

6. Safari Paint with Water

I love how easy these paint with water pages from Melissa & Doug are to set up, and the kids think they are almost magical! Use a paintbrush with water to lift the paint from the palette at the top of each page. Then paint using that color on the sheet. Super easy and lots of fun!

7. Pick a Wild Animal and Research About It

Choose one wild animal you would like to learn more about, then visit your local library to find books and more information about that animal. Design a poster with the information you gather.

8. Watch a Nature Program

Some of our current favorites are Planet Earth and Hidden Kingdoms — amazing photography and videography! Plus, you are sure to learn something new about wildlife.

9. Make Your Own Trail Mix

If your pantry is full of almost-empty boxes of cereals and snacks, it may be time to make your own trail mix. Set out bowls with a variety of cereals, crackers, pretzels, and other snacks (whatever you already have on-hand) — along with a few spoons and bags to hold the snack mix. Invite the kids to make up their own mixture of trail mix. Later, bring your homemade trail mix along on your next hiking adventure.

Easy monoprinting – use mini paint rollers on the back of a baking dish. Use cotton swabs to draw a design. Press a sheet of paper on top. Lift off the paper to reveal your masterpiece! Inspired by @jeanvanthul #picoftheday #art #kidsactivities #kbnmoms #momsofinstagram #creativetable #myview #kidsart #kidbloggersofIG #photooftheday A photo posted by Valerie at InnerChildFun.com (@innerchildfun) on Jun 25, 2015 at 6:45pm PDT

10. Try Animal-Inspired Monoprinting!

Use mini paint rollers to spread washable paint evenly on the bottom of a baking dish, then use cotton swabs to make designs in the paint. Press a sheet of paper over top of the paint. Lift it up to reveal your unique monoprint design! My kids enjoyed this simple painting technique to make animal-inspired prints over and over again!

More Safari Crafts to Explore:

Easy Super Cute Penguin Prints
Pretty Peacock Pictures
Zoo Inspired Crafts

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Melissa & Doug. All opinions are my own.

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Exciting Safari Activities and Crafts that Spark Joy in Preschoolers

I watched him roam around our backyard in his safari hat looking through his magnifying glass. He was on the hunt. We were working on letters, and the letters were hidden all around him.

“Mommy! I found the a!” He screamed excitedly. He brought it to me and put it with the other letters he found already.

We love getting up and moving to learn. Kids learn best through play , and it doesn’t get any more fun than going on your own safari adventure. There are many educational activities you can incorporate into a safari theme.

Image of preschooler looking at safari animals

Safari Activities and Crafts for Preschoolers

Dress the part.

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Going on a safari is always more fun when you dress the part. Grab these safari hats or make your own by cutting a hole in the center of a paper plate, putting it over an upside-down bowl, and painting them tan.

Make binoculars by gluing two toilet paper rolls together and decorating them with black paint. Attach a string to them so they hang around your neck and decorate with paint or safari animal stickers. (If you use stickers, you will likely need to use tape or glue to get them to stick).

Safari Activities for Preschoolers Binoculars

Safari Math

There are many fun safari math activities you can do using toy safari animals .

Sort into animals that are the same color, size, short/tall, heavy/light, or even by their diet.
Make a pattern of animals. Giraffe, lion, giraffe, lion. Try an AB pattern, and an ABC pattern.
Practice counting and number recognition . Put 10 animals in a container, have your kiddo take out a handful, and count. They choose the number from a deck of prewritten number cards and label the pile of animals.

Grab some safari stamps or stickers and make a pattern. Start with an AB pattern and then move on to an ABC or an ABB pattern.

Making paper plate snakes is a fun craft you can do by cutting a snake out of a paper plate. Paint it, and add shapes cut out of construction paper to make patterns, practice counting, colors, and more/less. Don’t forget googly eyes and a tongue!

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>Teach them to recognize the warning signs of giving up , and how to turn it around by taking control of their choices.

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Alphabet Safari

Our Alphabet Safari is a fun way to master your letters. It takes your child through 5 stages of learning their letters.

The Alphabet Safari takes you through 5 adventures, with 15 expeditions total.

Adventure 1: Focus on the letters in your child’s name

Adventure 2: Focus on known letters and vowels

Adventure 3: Focus on known letters and common letters (M, S, P, T, D, R, L, C)

Adventure 4: All letters are known, practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters

Adventure 5: All letters are known: Review!

Using the templates in our Alphabet Safari , color the posters of the letters you are working on.

Alphabet Safari for preschoolers letter posters

Rainbow write the alphabet (templates included in the Alphabet Safari).

Alphabet Safari for preschoolers rainbow writing

Watercolor the letters in your name , and make a banner to hang outside of your child’s room. (Templates included in the Alphabet Safari).

Alphabet Safari for preschoolers name banner

Go on a letter hunt! Hide the letters found in the Alphabet Safari inside or outside, and send your child on an excursion to find them. When they bring the letter to you, they must identify the letter.

Image of a preschooler going on an alphabet hunt

Safari Story Time

Giraffes Can’t Dance

This is a sweet story about Gerald the tall giraffe, who just doesn’t fit in with his jungle animal friends. They all can dance beautifully, and he doesn’t think he can. He finally discovers he can dance to his own tune with encouragement from a new friend.

Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz

Rumble in the Jungle is a great book that takes kids on a fun safari adventure to meet different jungle animals. With a fun rhyming text, kids love to discover new facts about different animals.

Over in the Grasslands: On an African Savanna by Marianne Berkes, Jill Dubin

This is a fun rhyming story that teaches counting and number recognition. It can be sung to the tune of “Over in the Meadow” and introduces young children to African animals, counting, and number recognition. It also includes a map of the continent of Africa and information about the animals found in the grasslands.

Dramatic Play Adventures Preschoolers Love

Pretend play is essential for kids’ development. Develop your kids’ imaginations and invite your little explorers on a safari. Grab your safari hat, binoculars, and vest to be ready for your adventure. Look at animals through your binoculars, sit in a jeep (made out of a cardboard box), and imagine what you would see on the African Safari. Grab your favorite stuffed animals you may see on a safari to decorate your savannah.

Safari Large Motor Games for Preschoolers

Make a game out of these movements that encourage gross motor development by pathways.org. Have kids stand in a line and when you call out an animal, they must start to move like that animal. You can also make cards with these animals on them. Each child gets a turn to come up, pick a card and act like that animal.
Go on a lion hunt! Pick one child to be the lion and have them hide. Everyone else needs to grab their binoculars and sneak around the room until you see the lion. Once you spot him, run back to the safe space without being tagged. The child who gets tagged is the next lion.
A great way to review while getting kids up and moving is to make large paw prints out of different colored construction paper. On each paw, write a number or letter (you will want several paw prints with the same number/letters if you are playing with a group of kids). Spread your paw prints throughout the room on the floor. Call out a color, number, or letter. Each child has to find a paw print with that attribute and stand on it (or put one foot on it if they are sharing the paw.)

Fine Motor Skills Development

Color or paint the letter posters in our Alphabet Safari.
Make a banner by decorating the letters in your name and stringing them together (templates included in the Alphabet Safari)
This safari board game takes preschoolers on a fun adventure that helps them practice taking turns, learning facts about different animals, and developing hand-eye coordination

Make snakes by cutting straws into 1″ pieces. String pieces of straws together to make your snake. You can make a color pattern too!

Safari Crafts

These easy animal crafts will get your little explorers excited about your jungle safari!

Find adorable lion crafts by Kids Art & Craft
Crafty Morning makes an easy elephant craft out of paper plates.
Our Kid Things has a simple fingerpaint giraffe craft . This would be perfect for scissor practice.
You can find 10 adorable zebra crafts by Artsy Craftsy Mom

Safari Snacks

Animal crackers are always a hit. Kids love pretending the animals are alive and making animal sounds.
Animal Cookies: Using these cookie cutters , make sugar cookies. For added fun, and a little mess, invite kids to decorate their favorite animal with icing.

Get the Printables

Don’t forget to grab your Alphabet Safari !

Easy to Prep Activities: Print and go activities are the perfect activity to keep your child interested, excited about learning, and strengthening their fine motor skills, while all the templates are organized for you and ready for you to dive in.

As an educator, I know the more senses you use to learn , the better you will remember the content. No worksheets here! We focus on getting our body moving, touching, and manipulating the letters in an exciting way so we will make learning fun- and learn it for good!
We learn best through play. Who looks forward to sitting at the kitchen table reviewing flashcards? (or better yet completing worksheets?) NOBODY. In this Safari Pack, your child will experience 15 excursions that will get them up and moving… and actually excited about learning.
We know we learn best when it is meaningful. Rather than worksheets, this Safari Pack focuses on activities kids can connect with their life experiences. Starting with the letters in their name, and using their environment (and people they love) this adventure makes learning exciting and memorable.

The Alphabet Safari Includes:

15 Alphabet Safari Expeditions that utilize the items already found around your home. Print-and-go activities for hands-on learning are organized at your fingertips.
A Must-Read Alphabet Book List to integrate your learning into your daily routine
Learned Alphabet Letter Tracker to boost your child’s confidence as they track their progress
Letter Cards and Templates to use in games and activities
Rainbow Writing Pages that are fun and great practice for fine motor skills
Coloring Pages for each letter also make great posters to reinforce learning
Letter ID Assessments help you know if your child really knows the alphabet, and have confidence that you are focusing on the right letters

Jacob was able to master his letters in no time at all. He loved the activities from our Alphabet Safari , and kids learn best when they are engaged and learning is meaningful . Making your African Safari unit is simple to do, and it’s exciting to meet the creatures of the wild jungle…even when they are the creatures that live with you.

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21 Educational Safari Crafts and Activities for Kids

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A safari-themed educational experience can be a fun way to fuel your child’s curiosity about wildlife and nature. Here are 21 engaging safari crafts and activities that promote cognitive and motor skill development while keeping the kids entertained.

1. Paper Plate Lions – Turn a simple paper plate into a fierce lion by adding yellow and orange construction paper mane and googly eyes.

2. Toilet Paper Roll Binoculars – Create a pair of binoculars by painting two toilet paper rolls, gluing them side-by-side, and attaching a strap.

3. Animal Track Stencils – Make stencils of animal paw prints from sturdy cardboard and let your kids create their own animal track art.

4. Safari Sensory Bin – Fill a shallow container with sand, toy animals, plastic plants, rocks, and other natural elements for an interactive tactile activity.

5. Giraffe Handprint Art – Use a combination of handprints as the body, neck, and head with finger paint spots to create adorable giraffe art.

6. Safari Animal Masks – Get creative with construction paper, popsicle sticks, glue, and markers to create colorful animal masks for a wild role play session.

7. Animal Habitat Dioramas – Use shoeboxes to create different animal habitats like savannah, rainforest, or desert.

8. Leaf Rubbings – Collect leaves from various trees to create beautiful rubbings using crayons or colored pencils on white paper sheets.

9. Safari Storytime – Read safari-themed books like “Giraffes Can’t Dance” or “The Lion Inside” to enrich your child’s imagination.

10. Animal Clay Sculptures – Encourage hands-on creativity by providing modeling clay for your child to shape their favorite safari animals.

11. Safari Obstacle Course – Design an outdoor obstacle course using cones, hoops, or chalk for imaginative playtime.

12. Rain Stick Craft – Create a rain stick using an empty paper towel roll, dried beans or rice, and colored tape for decoration.

13. Origami Safari Animals – Fold colorful squares of paper into giraffes, lions, zebras, and elephants to spark your child’s interest in origami art.

14. Animal Silhouette Art – Print safari animal silhouettes on cardstock and let the kids paint them as they please with watercolors or finger paint.

15. Safari Animal Puppets – Use felt, glue, and wooden sticks to make cute hand puppets inspired by safari animals.

16. Safari Scavenger Hunt – Hide cutouts of leaves and animals around your home or backyard for a wildlife-themed scavenger hunt.

17. Thumbprint Animal Art – Make masterpieces using your child’s thumbprints as the body and head of safari creatures, such as monkeys, hippos, and elephants.

18. Balloon Elephant Stomp – Inflate gray balloons and tie them off to form elephant feet for a stomping good time.

19. Safari BINGO – Create custom BINGO cards with safari animals for a fun and interactive game that reinforces their knowledge about wildlife.

20. DIY Animal Footprint Casts – Mix up some plaster of Paris to create casts of animal footprints for an engaging science-inspired activity.

21. Animal Yoga Poses – Stretch and relax with kid-friendly yoga poses inspired by safari animals like the giraffe, monkey, and sleeping lion.

With these 21 educational safari crafts and activities at hand, your child will have loads of fun learning about wildlife while nurturing their creative minds.

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Exciting Safari Crafts

If you’re looking for exciting safari crafts to make, these will set you up perfectly. Whisk your kids away to magical Africa where they can don safari gear and explore the safari parks, ready to see the wildlife in its natural habitat. With their wearable gear ready, they could take to the backyard to spot wildlife or draw typical wildlife they would see on a safari, like elephants, giraffes, and hippos.

Safari Vest

Supplies you’ll need

Grocery-sized paper bag
Pale pink paper or card

Step-by-step tutorial

Lay your paper bag down on a flat surface with the bottom end pointing up.
Draw your vest outline on the paper bag with a pencil. Start by drawing the armholes which will begin at the top corners of the bag, come in slightly, and then go back to the edge of the bag. It should cover about 5 inches from the top pencil mark to the bottom. You can make these larger or smaller depending on whether kids are wearing jumpers etc.
Now you will draw the neckline and front of the vest which will open up. Back at the top of the bag, measure 4 inches from the top left across and draw a slightly curved line down so it meets in the middle of the bag, and then continue the line straight down until it hits the bottom.
Create a mirror image from the right-hand side and when the line meets the top of the line in the middle you can stop. It will share the same line as the other side so there is just one.
Flip the bag over, keeping the closed end at the top. Now you want to draw your neckline at the back. Folding the top of the bag toward you slightly, draw a line where you see the neck markings on the front side of the vest. Connect your two lines at the back by drawing a large semi-circle.
Now you can cut out your vest using scissors. Cut the armholes first. Then cut up the line running up the front middle of the vest. Start cutting from the bottom and follow the line up then around one side where it curves to form the neck. Then cut the other side of the neck hole.
Flip the vest over and cut out the neck hole at the back.
Take your pink paper/card and draw 7 rectangles in the following sizes (width x height) and (quantity): 5 in x 4 in (1) / 4 in x 4 in (2) / 2 in x 3 in (4). These will be your safari vest pockets. Cut out these rectangles.
Draw stitching around the edge of the pockets and draw the flap by making little dots or dashes using the black pen. Draw 1 button on the smallest pockets (above the “flap”) and 2 on the larger ones.
Draw 2 thin rectangles on your pink card 5 in x Â½ in. These will be zippers that you can place on the jacket. Cut out your rectangles and then using your black pen, make stitching all around the edges of the card. Then make lots of vertical lines moving across the rectangle, like a zipper pattern. Then draw the zipper pull at one end.
Now you can assemble your vest. Grab your glue and arrange the pockets on the front of the vest. Place the largest pocket at the bottom right. Glue two of the smallest next to each other on the opposite side. Fix the other two small pockets to the top of the vest, and add your remaining pockets and zippers where you like in between.

Your safari vest is now ready for action. If you have a small child (and a very big bag!), you can leave the middle line on the front of the vest just with a pen outline and don’t cut it (essentially making a sack or t-shirt). You would just cut the armholes and neck hole.

Paint (beige or green)
Newspaper or an old sheet
Black ribbon or thick string
Choose your workspace and lay down some old newspaper or an old sheet to cover the worktop or floor.
Grab your paper bowl and fold the edges so they face downward instead of up.
Paint the outside of the bowl in a khaki-themed color (green or beige tones). Let it dry.
When the paint has dried, punch one hole on opposite sides of the bowl.
Take your ribbon and measure it so it can wrap around the hatband/trim area of the hat 1.5 times and then calculate enough extra to go under your child’s chin. Cut the ribbon.
Thread one piece of the ribbon through the hole from the top downward. Pull enough down so it can easily fit under your child’s chin and tie to the other end when you pull that through.
Get your glue and squeeze some out around the hatband/trim area. Starting on the side of the hat where you thread the ribbon through, take the ribbon and wrap it around the full circumference.
You are going to continue to wrap the ribbon around halfway again. Before you do so, add more glue in the same direction you will be laying the ribbon. Take the ribbon and place it on the glue until you meet the other hole that you made. Gently press down on the ribbon that is glued to the top. Let the glue dry.
When the glue is dry and the ribbon is stuck to the hat, thread the ribbon through the hole on the other side. You will now have two pieces of ribbon hanging down under the inside rim of the hat. Your hat is ready to use.

Place it on your child’s head and tie the two ends of the ribbon together to fasten it so it doesn’t fall off. Alternatively, you can just tie it loosely or leave it hanging as decoration if they don’t want it tight.

Safari Binoculars

2 x empty bathroom tissue rolls
Paints in black, dark green, light green, and yellow
Paintbrushes
Scissors or hole punch
Thin black ribbon or thick round string
Paint your tissue rolls in camouflage print, leaving Â½ inch blank at both ends which you will paint black. With dark green, light green, and yellow paints, make thick swirls around each other until the rolls are covered (except for the ends). Paint Â½ inch of black around each end and leave them to dry.
Once dry, glue the rolls together down the middle.
While the glue dries, prepare your ribbon or string. Cut a 16-inch piece off.
Make a hole – for the ribbon – on each of the tissue rolls which will act as the neck strap. On the outside rim at the back (choose either end as long as you use the same for both holes) make a small hole with a hole punch or scissors.
Thread your ribbon through and tie it off on itself. Your binoculars are ready for use.

If you want to make this craft faster, you can paint the rolls all in black and skip the colors.

Safari Theme

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Wild Animals Theme

Pre-K & Preschool theme ideas for learning about African animals.

Find more Wild Animal Activities for Pre-K

Check here for a complete list of Safari Animal Books

Wild Animals Large Motor Games

Elephant conga line.

Children walk like an elephant on all four legs, trying to keep their balance while lifting a front leg and a back leg. We made a line of elephants and tried walking around the circle as a group.

Handa’s Surprise: Interacting with the Story

After reading the story, Handa’s Surprise , we talk about how Handa carries fruit to her friend. The children try to balance a basket of play fruit on their head the way Handa did in the story.

Wild Animals Art Activities

African drum art.

This is a good activity to go with the book, Jungle Drums , by Graeme Base. Children make drums out of drink mix cans and use pencils or dowel sticks for drumsticks. A piece of paper is wrapped and glued around the can. Children decorate the drum with animal skin patterns: Elephant: wrinkled (crumpled) paper painted gray Zebra: black stripes painted on white paper Giraffe: brown spots painted on yellow paper Cheetah: small black spots painted on tan paper Hippopotamus: painted gray-blue Rhinoceros: painted gray Hyena: black and brown spots painted on tan paper If you don’t have drink mix cans, you can make quiet drums by decorating a paper plate, and use plastic straws for drumsticks.

Wild Animals Literacy Activities

Class book: “i went on safari”.

Children choose an African grasslands animal to draw on the page. Each page says: “I went on safari, and what did I see? I saw a ____ looking at me!” The pages are put together to make the class book.

Letter Game

Each child has a strip of paper with about 8 letters on it. Children take turns drawing a letter out of a bag. When a letter is pulled out, everyone stamps out that letter on their paper with a safari animal stamp.

Story Retelling

This is an activity that goes with any theme. Choose a book that goes with the theme, and have the children retell the story. Read the blog post here for details: story retelling

Elephant Bingo Stamping Game

Read about and print the Elephant Bingo Game here .

Wild Animal Roll & Write Game

Read about and print the Wild Animal Roll & Write Game here .

Wild Animals Math Activities

Tangram animals.

Children match tangrams to the shapes on the tangram mats to make African animals. [These mats came from: Tangram Animals A to Z , by Learning Resources]

Stamp Patterns

Children make patterns with safari animal rubber stamps.

Wild Animal Grid Games

Read about and print the Lion & Elephant Grid Games here .

Wild Animals Science Activities

We talk about ways lions use their sense of smell. Cotton balls are placed around the room: a few unscented cotton balls and some with scented oil. The children pretend to be lions on the hunt by crawling around, and use their noses to find the scented ones. If you have students with perfume allergies or asthma, be sure to use a natural scented oil, such as peppermint oil.

Zoo Field Trip Checklist

Read about and print the Zoo Field Trip Checklist here .

Wild Animal Printable Books

Find two Wild Animal Printable Books here (see “Lions” and “On Safari”).

Rhymes that go well with a Safari theme:

Elephant Fingerplay
Going on a Lion Hunt
Alphabet Zoo CD: Jack Hartmann
The Jaguar : Mrs. Jones Sing Along Songs
Hear the Animals : Mrs. Jones Sing Along Songs
Going to the Zoo: traditional song

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Safari Animal Activities For Preschoolers

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My preschool aged daughter is spending her school time at home these days (hello 2020 quarantine). We are trying to keep her enriched with fun and easy play-through-learning experiences. Making sure she has some basic art, math, reading, writing and play time in her day is challenging for my brain but important and crucial for hers. I thought it would be easier to come up with ideas if I first came up with a “theme” of things she wanted to learn about. That got my wheels spinning in order to find age appropriate learning activities for her. So I searched and came up with tons of safari animal activities for preschoolers.

The safari animal theme was tied into our week. We did all sorts of arts and crafts, and mixed in learning lessons.

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Safari Animal Activities For Preschoolers

Safari Animal Words

We talked a lot about different animals, and how some of them live on a farm, some in the sea, some in the jungle and some of them in the safari.

Using a piece of butcher block paper I asked my daughter to come up with a few animals that she thought were safari animals. As she said an animal, I asked her to tell me what the first letter of the word started with. I also asked if she could hear any other sounds in the word. We compiled a long list and kept coming back to it throughout the week.

Safari Writing

My daughter’s teacher encouraged us to continue with an at home journal, so we did a simple safari journal prompt. If I could have any safari animal as a pet it would be….. and I asked her to draw a picture of her and the animal playing together.

We also used some of these playdough m ats and first traced the letters, then used playdough to create the letter.

Safari Small World Play

Using objects from around the house, I set up all the elements in order for my daughter to create her very own safari habitat. This was so much fun, and she kept coming back to it over and over again all week. A perfect activity for imaginative play. Full details and setup can be found here .

Safari Puppet Show

We talked about how each story has to have a beginning, middle and an end. I decided to let my daughter come up with her own puppet show and story but told her it needed to have all the elements of a story.

I found free safari animal clipart online and printed them out on a single piece of paper. I drew a circle around each animal and asked my daughter to cut them out.

We then placed the animal on top of a craft stick with a glue stick.

I used an old table cloth and put it over the top of the table. My daughter sat underneath and had her puppet story come to life! It was about a elephant who needed to go to the doctor but slipped on his way in BTW.

Safari Arts and Crafts

Lion painting.

This project is so easy to set up. We used this easel and I had my daughter on one side and my son on the other.

The first step was to draw the face. We did a guided and directed drawing, I told her in the middle of the paper to draw the triangle, and then the eyes etc and she followed along.

I LOVE painting with cotton balls it’s so easy and provides way less of a mess than traditional paint brushes. We used orange and yellow paint , and then I took two clothespins and attached cotton balls to them in order to create the circular dots around the lion’s face. If you don’t have the supplies at home, dot paint would also work well here.

Pro tip: whenever you do a painting project with littles add a washable plastic table cloth underneath. We also use these bibs to avoid getting paint on our clothes.

Safari Themed Preschool Craft

Moving along in the week, what’s a safari without a lion mask? This was a great opportunity for my daughter to work on her scissor cutting skills.

On a piece of orange and yellow construction paper, draw 1 inch thick lines, and ask your child to cut them out (if not scissor ready have an adult cut them out).
Cut a hole in the middle of a paper plate
Using a glue stick, fasten the strips on the top of the paper plate, alternating yellow and orange stripes
Let the glue dry and then use the mask!

This was great for talking about patterns. She had to think each time she put a colored strip on what came next. We also went back to the mask later in the day and gave it a “hair cut.”

Math Safari Games

My daughter really enjoys playing dice games at school, so right before bed each night during safari week, we played a super fun and easy giraffe dice game.

Safari Snack

Who said you can’t play with your food? We took oranges and used edible pens and drew cute lion and tiger faces on our oranges.

Safari Books

Since we can’t hit the bookstore or library these days, I had to get creative and find all the animal and safari books we already had. Luckily we had a few and they are a great addition to any littles library:

Put Me In the Zoo
Giraffes Can’t Dance
If Animals Kissed Goodnight

Safari P.E. Time

Now more than ever it is so important for my kids to stay active! They are used to a half an hour of straight running around the gym or playground at school, and being cooped up in the house means we have to get creative.

My daughter has been OBSESSED with Cosmic Kids Yoga. The narrator does an AMAZING job at telling a detailed story and then having very kid friendly yoga poses to go along with it. We did the jungle safari themed yoga and it was a huge hit.

Safari’ed Out

We had such a fun week learning about safari and jungle animals and can’t wait till our next theme, we are headed to Outer Space!

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How to Make Your Own Safari Hat

Little adventurers will love learning how to make their very own safari hat with this simple kids craft!

Set your child’s creativity loose by letting them paint and decorate their hat (a paper bowl). And then sit back and watch as they enjoy lots of open-ended play.

We made this for our Uganda preschool unit as part of our section about safaris.

This hat is perfect to make in conjunction with our DIY binocular craft and use in our fun safari look-and-find game .

With all the right gear prepared, your child will feel like they are on a real safari!

Safari Hat Craft

Materials to make the safari hat kids craft

Glue (recommended: Elmer’s Multi-Purpose Glue )

Instructions

Take your bowl and bend the edges so they point downward instead of up.

Paint the bottom side of the bowl in the color of your choice. You could go with traditional beige/brown or something more colorful!

Paint the bowl in the color of your choice

Allow the bowl to dry and then punch a hole in each side near the top of the rim.

Punch holes into both sides of the bowl at the base if the rim

Cut a piece of string long enough that it can circle the rim of the bowl a time and a half and still have enough slack to tie under your child’s chin.

Place a line of glue along the base of the bowl for the string

Place a line of glue along the base of the bowl. Wrap the string around the bowl in the line of glue, overlapping on the front half. Stick the extra string down through the hole in each side.

Let the glue dry. When your child uses the hat, tie it securely under your child’s chin to keep it from slipping.

My son had so much fun making and wearing his hat! I loved seeing how much he enjoyed painting his bowl and then his delight to see it turn into a hat with the simple addition of string.

Boy wearing his completed safari hat craft

This craft is super simple to make and kids will love feeling like they are ready to go on an adventure!

DIY Safari Hat Craft

Glue (recommended: Elmer's Multi-Purpose Glue)
Bend the edges of the bowl so they point downward instead of upwards.
Paint the bottom side of the bowl the color of your choice.
Let the paint dry.
Punch a hole in each side near the top of the rim.
Cut a piece of string long enough that it can circle the rim of the bowl a time and a half and still have enough slack to tie under your child's chin.
Let the glue dry. Tie the string securely under your child's chin when they are using it to keep it from slipping.

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Theme and activities

Workshops, activities for babies, outdoor fun, a new rhyme, and simple science activities are all part of this animal-packed theme.

In the Educatall Club Posters, models, activity sheets, crafts, word flashcards, games, puppets, and many more documents that will take your group on a safari adventure.

ALL THEMES See 2024 schedule

(Open thematic poster-Safari) Print, laminate, and display all kinds of posters.

Educa-theme-Safari (Open educa-theme-Safari) Print and laminate the items that represent the theme. Use them to present your theme to your group (and parents) while decorating a corner of your daycare.

Garland-Safari (Open models-Safari) Print and let children decorate the garland. Cut it out and hang it within your daycare or near your daycare entrance.

Educa-decorate-Safari

(Open educa-decorate-Safari) Print, cut out, and laminate. Use the illustrations to decorate your walls and set the mood for the theme. For the duration of the theme, transform the area where you serve meals. Set a green tablecloth on a table (Open zoo animal models) Print and trace the shapes on construction paper. Cut them out and fold where indicated. Use markers to draw any missing details (eyes, mouth, etc.) directly on the paper. Use pipe cleaners to represent the animals' ears and tail, if necessary. Use the animals to create a centrepiece or use clear thread or string to hang them above your table.

The following tools were created in response to special requests received. (Open group identification-Zebras) (Open group identification-Pandas) Print and laminate the different items and use them to identify children's spots and belongings throughout your daycare and in your cloakroom.

CIRCLE TIME

Encourage each child to bring a book, a stuffed animal, a movie, or any other object they have at home that represents a zoo animal to daycare. Arrange the various items in the centre of your circle time area. Pick one item at a time and invite children to share everything they know about the animal.

PICTURE GAME

The pictures may be used as a memory game or to spark a conversation with your group. Use them to decorate your daycare or a specific thematic corner. (Open picture game-Safari) Print, laminate, and store the pictures in a Ziploc bag or in your thematic bin.

ACTIVITY SHEETS

(Open activity sheets-Monkeys) Activity sheets are suggested for each theme. Print and follow instructions.

WRITING ACTIVITIES

(Open writing activities-S like safari) Print for each child or laminate for use with a dry-erase marker.

Educa-nuudles-Safari

(Open educa-nuudles-Safari) Print for each child. Have children color the sheet and use Magic Nuudles to give it a three-dimensional look. Variation: You don't have Magic Nuudles? Have children fill the spaces designed for Magic Nuudles with bingo markers or stickers. To order Magic Nuudles

VARIOUS WORKSHOPS-Safari

Have fun with these wonderful workshop ideas created by Caroline Allard.

Construction/building blocks:

Decorate your area with pictures of animals that can be seen during a safari.
Offer different kinds of animals: wild animals, aquatic animals, polar animals, farm animals, reptiles, etc.
Figurines that can represent people that are visiting a zoo.
Blocks (Lego, etc.) that children can use to build shelters for animals.
A play mat that represents animals or a zoo.

Several Popsicle sticks and white glue. Children can use them to build cages for the animals.
Orange, yellow, brown, and black construction paper that can be used to create animal collages or 3D animals with empty toilet paper rolls.
Paint an empty toilet paper roll to represent a lion. Let dry. Use a hole-punch to make four holes in the toilet paper roll (two in the front and two in the back). Insert a pipe cleaner in each pair of holes to represent the lion's legs. Bend the ends of the pipe cleaners to represent paws. Cut a small paper coffee cup horizontally halfway up. Next, cut it vertically to represent a lion's mane. Fold and paint the paper cup. Draw the lion's face on the bottom of the cup. Let dry. Glue the toilet paper roll in the bottom of the cup to complete your lion.
Old National Geographic magazines that children can use to cut pictures of animals and make a giant collage.
Strips of orange, black, and white paper that can be used to create animals.
Feathers that can be used as paintbrushes to paint pretty birds.
Coloring pages that represent various animals that can be seen during a safari.
Stencils representing different wild animals.
Yellow and orange paper that children can draw on using black markers.

A piece of paper divided into two sections with, for example, a zebra drawn in the top section. Children must reproduce the drawing in the bottom section.
Set up a ticket booth where children can pretend to buy a ticket for the zoo. To represent a zoo, display pictures of animals on the walls of your daycare or set stuffed zoo animals here and there.
The zookeeper will be very popular throughout this theme: shirt, pants, hat, flashlight, set of keys, cell phone, etc.
There is always a veterinarian at the zoo: white shirt, stethoscope, flashlight, magnifying glass, syringes, bandages, etc.
A cook is responsible for feeding the animals. Transform your kitchen area so children can prepare food for the monkeys, lions, snakes, etc.
Who cleans the animals' cages? An animal technician! Provide work clothes, a broom, a bucket, brushes of all kinds, etc.
Use a large box to represent a cave.

Manipulation:

Memory game using the educatall.com picture game or an animal-themed store-bought memory game. They are easy to find!
Modeling dough with animal-shaped cookie cutters. If you wish, use salt dough and leave the animals out to dry. Children can paint them and take them home.

Lotto game or other board games involving animals.
Association game where children must match animals with the correct paw prints or tracks.
Puppets representing safari animals and a small tabletop puppet theatre.

Pre-reading:

Books about animals.
Fairytales or stories that involve animals that can be seen on a safari.
A poster representing various animal families.
A game where children must associate animals sounds with the correct animal pictures.
A map and animal pictures children can associate with the correct continent.

Pre-writing:

Animal-themed connect-the-dot activities.
Activity sheets related to the theme.

Motor skills:

An obstacle course that children must complete while moving like a monkey, a lion, a seal, etc.
Children can jump through hula hoops like lions at the circus.

An imitation game (Monkey see, Monkey do).
Feed the animal game. Draw an animal face on a large piece of construction paper and cut a hole where its mouth is. Encourage children to try to toss bean bags inside the animal's mouth.
Play "The lion says..." instead of "Simon says...".
Invite children to slither under chairs or along an obstacle course.

Sensory bins:

Water table with plastic animals that children can wash and bathe.
Fill your water table with ice cubes and let children play with polar animals.
A cereal bin (to represent food for the animals) and a variety of small objects that can be hidden in the bin.

Early science:

Magnifying glasses children can use to observe animals up close.
Fill a bowl of water for each child and let them drink like animals.

Have children eat their lunch like animals...without utensils and without their hands.

LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES

Word flashcards

Use the cards to spark a conversation with your group or in your reading and writing area. They may also be used to identify your thematic bins. (Open word flashcards-The zoo) (Open giant word flashcards-The zoo) (Open word flashcards-Safari) (Open giant word flashcards-Safari) Print. zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe, monkey, kangaroo, cheetah, crocodile, tiger, cage, gorilla, zoo, giraffe, lion, zebra, elephant, monkey, hyena, gorilla, picture, Jeep, guide, explorer, binoculars

Let's chat (Open word flashcards-Safari) Print and laminate the word flashcards. Display them on a wall, close to your circle time area or glue them on a large piece of cardboard that can easily be moved around. Name a word and ask children to identify the corresponding word flashcard.

Zoo scene (Open zoo scene) Print, laminate, and cut out the pieces. Children can use them to decorate the scene.

Associating words and pictures (Open giant word flashcards-Safari) Print, laminate, and display the word flashcards on a wall next to your circle time area or on a large piece of cardboard that can be moved around. Name a word and encourage children to take turns identifying the correct word flashcard.

(Open perpetual calendar-Safari Day) Print and display.

Greeting: Give each child a necklace representing a different animal. Encourage them to wear it throughout the day.

Lunch and snacks: At snack time, serve small animal crackers in cute animal-shaped plates. At lunch time, use the plates to serve animal-shaped chicken nuggets.

Special activities: Organize a special treasure hunt within your daycare. Have children search for animals that are hidden here and there. Encourage children to use magnifying glasses and pretend they are great explorers. Take pictures of your group while they are on this unique safari. Collect all the toys you have that are related to animals. Let children draw a huge jungle scene on a white banner and display it on a wall. Consult our numerous animal themes, they are packed with game and activity suggestions.

ROUTINES AND TRANSITIONS

My safari path (Open transition games-Safari) Print, laminate, and secure the illustrations on the floor to create a path which leads to areas frequently visited by children such as the bathroom or cloakroom. If you prefer, the illustrations may also be used to delimit your various workshops.

Animal moves Invite children to move about the daycare while acting like different animals and making the corresponding animal sounds. Repeat this activity often during the theme, changing animals each time.

ACTIVITIES FOR BABIES

Soft animals Collect several stuffed animals and let young children manipulate them from time to time during your theme.

I am a... Practice making different animal sounds with your group.

Makeup and masks As you discover different animals with your group, paint each child's face to represent them. If you prefer, use animal masks.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND MOTOR SKILLS

The kangaroo family This activity can be presented outside. Set several hula hoops on the ground and encourage children to hop in them with their feet stuck together to represent a kangaroo.

Musical animals (Open picture game-Zoo animals) Play African music and invite children to dance around the daycare. When you stop the music, have a child pick a card. As a group, they must move about like the animal shown on the card and make the corresponding animal sound for a few minutes. When you start the music again, children resume dancing and so on.

Follow the zookeeper You are the zookeeper. Ask children to form a line and stand one behind the other. At first, perform simple moves (three steps forward, two steps sideways, a small kangaroo hop, etc.). Children must repeat your every move. As the game progresses, introduce actions that are more and more difficult. You can, for example, have children move backwards, on their tiptoes like a giraffe, heavily like an elephant, etc.

The monkeys follow the gorilla Have children (monkeys) stand in a line behind the leader (the gorilla). The gorilla performs a variety of actions and the monkeys must repeat his every move. The gorilla can jump, raise his arms, crawl, clap, spin around, etc.

Silly monkey Select a child who will play the role of the monkey. The other children are gorillas. The gorillas must lie down on the floor, on their side, with their eyes open and a serious look on their face. The monkey must walk among the gorillas, making silly faces. If a child laughs, he/she is eliminated. The last remaining gorilla becomes the silly monkey for the next round.

Monkey see, Monkey do Encourage children to pretend they are monkeys. They must imitate everything you do (make a silly face, scratch your head, laugh, fall down, etc.). Variation: This game can be presented at lunch time. Use it to encourage children to eat broccoli or another vegetable they don't really enjoy. It just might work!

Monkey face Set several mirrors on a table. Invite children to make silly faces. Organize a contest!

The lion's roar Ask children to roar like a lion. They can roar very loudly or very softly. Record the sounds they make. If you wish, you may also explore other animal sounds with your group.

Little lions Tease children's hair to represent a lion's mane. Paint their faces too.

I am a panther Set a balance beam in the centre of your daycare. Encourage children to walk on the balance beam like a panther, a lion, a tiger, etc.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Animal families Divide your group into three animal families. You can have an elephant family, a monkey family, and a lion family. Whisper the name of one of these animals in each child's ear. When you give the signal, children must act like the animal they were given. Children must observe the others to find their family members.

Take your indoors outdoors! Bring your dolls and blankets outside and let children use sleds to transport them around your yard. Blocks can be used to build huge castles or forts outside. Use paintbrushes and water to paint items in your yard.

COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES

Where do animals live? (Open Game-Where do animals live?) Print and laminate the game. Using Velcro, children must associate the animals to the correct habitat.

As tall as a giraffe Provide measuring tapes and rulers children can use to measure different items within your daycare. Measure each child. Which object is the longest? Which one is the smallest? Sort a series of items from shortest to longest.

The giraffe's neck Explain how giraffes can see things that are very far away thanks to their very long neck. Invite children to look at something that is very far away. Set items here and there throughout your daycare. Have them determine which ones are far away and which ones are very close.

EARLY SCIENCE

Heavy like an elephant, light as a feather Children must identify heavy and light items. Weigh each child. Provide small scales children can use to weigh items present within your daycare.

I am a monkey (Open monkey costume) Print, stick the mask on heavy cardboard, and cut it out. If you wish, you may also laminate the mask before cutting it out. Attach a string or an elastic to either side of the mask to hold it in place.

CULINARY ACTIVITIES

Monkeys and bananas Prepare a variety of banana-based recipes (cakes, muffins, milkshake, bread, etc.).

ARTS & CRAFTS

Finger puppets-Safari (Open finger puppets-Safari) Print the various puppet models on heavy cardboard. Ask children to cut them out and decorate the puppets with different arts & crafts materials. Children insert their fingers in the holes to move the puppets.

Models-Safari (Open models-Safari) Print the models and use them for crafts and activities throughout the theme.

My safari scrapbook Cut pictures out of old magazines and books. Glue them on 10 cm x 13 cm paper. Slide two pictures inside small Ziploc bags, back to back. Staple the bags together at the closed end. Using this method will make it possible to open the bags to remove the pictures if you need to. Use colourful adhesive tape to cover the staples. Enjoy your safari scrapbook.

Elephant trunk Use gray paint to coat a small paper plate. Add two gray ears and two wiggly eyes. Cut a hole in the centre of the plate and show children how they can insert their finger to represent an elephant's trunk.

Elephant feet With your group, experiment mixing white and black paint to create gray paint. Let children press their hands in the gray paint and then on a large paper banner.

Masks (Open zoo animal masks) Print and trace the models on heavy cardboard. Let children choose and decorate the mask they like best.

Zebras Trace the outline of a zebra body on black construction paper for each child. Let children stick pieces of white yarn on their zebra to represent stripes.

Striped zebra drawing Provide black paper and white chalk and let children create unique zebra designs.

Puppets-Monkeys (Open puppets-Monkeys) Print the models on heavy cardboard. Ask children to cut them out and decorate them with various arts & crafts materials. Glue a Popsicle stick behind each model to complete your puppets.

Models-Monkeys (Open models-Monkeys) Print the models and use them for crafts and activities throughout the theme.

Bouncing monkey (Open my bouncing monkey) Print the different pieces. You will need two paper plates (a small one and a big one). Have children paint them with beige or brown paint. They will represent the monkey's body and the monkey's head. Assemble the monkey, adding the face, tail, arms and legs, ears...and banana to the plates. Hang the monkeys from the ceiling.

Monkey face (Open monkey costume) Print for each child. Have children paint a paper plate with brown poster paint. While the paint is drying, ask children to cut out the various parts of the monkey face and have them color the pieces as they wish. Once the paint is completely dry, have children stick the face parts in the correct spots.

My miniature kangaroo (Open my miniature kangaroo) Print the various kangaroo parts and ask children to cut them out. Glue them on an empty toilet paper roll.

My miniature koala bear (Open my miniature koala bear) Print the various koala parts and ask children to cut them out. Glue them on an empty toilet paper roll.

Puppets-Kangaroo (Open puppets-Kangaroo) Print the model and have children color the parts. Cut them out and assemble the kangaroo on a brown paper bag as shown.

COLORING PAGES

(Open coloring pages theme-Safari) Print.

SONGS & RHYMES

(Open songs & rhymes-Safari)

By: Patricia Morrison Sung to: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Here we go on a safari A safari, a safari Here we go on a safari We're off to Africa

This is the way we drive a Jeep drive a Jeep, drive a Jeep This is the way we drive a Jeep On a safari

This is the way we take pictures Take pictures, take pictures This is the way we take pictures Of the animals we see

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Safari-Themed Playdate and FREE Printable

Safari Party Playdate Theme plus Games, Tutorial, and FREE Printable

With the weather so nice in the afternoons, I want to get my kids outside more often. They wanted to see their friends, so we invited them all over for a semi-structured safari-themed party playdate with Oriental Trading Company . I set up a few decorations, some snacks, a game, and a craft for the kids to enjoy.

Some of the activities needed some guidance with the age range of the kids who participated, but they were not overly-structured so the adults could still relax. I combined indoor and outdoor activities as well to give a change of atmosphere.

Binocular Craft

What You Need

Colored craft rolls (2 per project)
Crayons/markers/stickers
Metallic washi tape
Hole puncher

You can go two ways with this: assemble these beforehand (recommended) or assemble these during the party (what we did to give the kids more creative freedom.) If you have help, you can assemble them during the party. Below is the example project I made to share with the kids as a visual for their binoculars.

1. Hold two craft rolls together and carefully tape them together with washi tape around each end. Wrap tightly so they do not fall apart; I wrapped two layers of tape around each end.

*If you want these to be more like regular binoculars and you have the time/supplies (I did not get around to this), you can hot glue two medium-sized wooden beads between the rolls just prior to taping. If you do this, it may be easier to pre-assemble the binoculars depending on your playdate size.

5. Lace the yarn through the hole and tie the strings tightly onto the tubes so they do not come undone.

Snack Ideas

I always serve more nutritious, small, and usually inexpensive snacks. This time I served pretzel sticks, grapes that I got a great deal on, juice boxes, and had bananas as a decoration but available if requested.

Decorations

These were very simple as that was not the focus of the playdate, unlike a lot of the parties we throw. I simply set up a little area with the snacks and craft supplies, hung a toy parrot off of the light fixture, and put a toy snake and frog around the snack area. The supplies for the game were sitting on one of the seats.

Safari Seek Game

Each child was given a chance to be the seeker and wear the pith hat and vest. The other kids wore the animal hats (giraffe, monkey, elephant, tiger, and lion.) They then had to hide for the safari guide to find. Of course, the kids at our party were a little too young to understand what it meant to hide, but it still worked with them running around.

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What is your favorite jungle animal? Let me know in the comment section!

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Such a fun idea for a play date! Oriental Trading is our first stop for ordering items for birthday parties and other gatherings! They are very affordable and have unique and fun items!

Thank you, Sarah! We love them.

My kids would have a hayday with this theme! Definitely trying out on my next playdate! Thanks for the idea!

You’re welcome! All the kids had a blast!

These are fun ideas! Thanks for sharing

Thank you and you’re welcome, Elena.

Now this is some fun for the kids.My 3 youngest would love all of this.

All the kids had a blast!

What a fun game! I wanted to let you know that I am featuring this on my site.

Such a cute idea!

Thank you, Amanda!

I love this! It would be a great birthday party activity!

Thank you, Brenda! For sure! Have you seen my Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Zebras too?

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Giraffe Handprint Craft : Yellow handprint with the thumb as the head. Have children add brown patches, two small brown horns, an eye, a yellow tail with a bushy brown end, and brown hooves.

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Your guide to the week ahead – family fun for the week of May 10

Things to do in greenville, spartanburg and nearby this weekend.

It’s all about the arts this weekend, as Artisphere takes over downtown Greenville. This three-day festival is loaded with free fun for kids and families. Plus, it’s time for Livewell Greenville’s ParkHop, which offers fun all summer long. Get outside with plenty of soccer this weekend – and don’t miss out on upcoming events for Memorial Day weekend. Plan the rest of your month at upstateparent.com .

To include your organization’s family friendly events in Upstate Parent, email [email protected] .

“The SpongeBob Musical” continues through May 19 at South Carolina Children’s Theatre. For tickets and details, visit scchildrenstheatre.org .

Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” is presented by Mauldin Theater Company through May 19 at the Mauldin Cultural Center. For tickets and details, visit mauldinculturalcenter.org .

Park Hop opens May 10 – Park Hop is a free, summer long scavenger hunt at park and recreation venues throughout Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. This scavenger hunt encourages children and families to discover featured parks throughout the summer while searching for answers to clues within each park. Get the ParkHop app on GooglePlay or the App Store. Visit parkhop.org .

Artisphere is May 10 – 12 in downtown Greenville. The festival includes arts, food, music and more. Kidsphere activities, including crafts, music and more, are available throughout the weekend. For details, visit artisphere.org .

Yoga is at 3 p.m. May 10 at TCMU-Greenville. Join in to practice mindfulness, breathing exercises, and stretching. The class is led by a volunteer certified yoga instructor. This Healthy Hustle class is included with admission. Visit tcmupstate.org .

Starry Nights programs are at Roper Mountain Science Center May 10. “Perfect Little Planet” is at 4:30 p.m. “Two Small Pieces of Glass” is at 6 and “Chasing the Ghost Particle” is at 7:30 p.m. Advance ticket purchases are required. For details, visit ropermountain.org .

Mom's Night Out is 6 – 8 p.m. May 10 at Sun and Soil Plant Parlor. The event includes a DIY floral bar and more. To register, visit sunandsoilplantparlor.com/events/moms-night-out .

The Greenville Liberty vs. Asheville City soccer match is at 7 p.m. May 10 at Furman University. Visit greenvilleliberty.com .

Saturday Safari: A Bug’s Life is May 11 at the Greenville Zoo. Learn how animals can be artists too through crafts, activities, and an animal encounter. For details and registration, visit greenvillezoo.com/180/Saturday-Safari-5-7 .

Mini Makers: Campfire Friends for ages 2 – 5 is 9 – 10 a.m. May 11 at TR Makers Co. Explore the five imagination stations and participate in making an art creation that has been tailored for this specific topic. Each of the stations and activities helps to build on the four core goals of the Mini Makers program, which includes encouraging creative play, social interactions and community building, educational development, along with developing fine and gross motor skills. This class is also a great opportunity for grown-ups to connect with their little one and share great memories along the way. For details and registration, visit trmakersco.org .

Train Day at the Depot is 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. May 11 at the Hub City Railroad Museum. For details, visit hubcityrrmuseum.org/train-day-2024-may-11 .

Free Family Saturday is May 11 at the Spartanburg Science Center. For details, visit spartanburgsciencecenter.org .

Lollipops Concert: “Steam Train, Dream Train” is May 11 – at 10 a.m. at the Hughes Main Library and at 11:30 a.m. at the Five Forks Library. This is a story-based performance featuring the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and South Carolina Children's Theatre’s Traysie Amick. Best for ages 3 – 8. For details, visit greenvillelibrary.org .

The Greenville Triumph vs. South Georgia soccer match is at 7 p.m. May 11 at Furman University. Visit greenvilletriumph.com .

Looking ahead:

The Greenville Downtown Airport’s (GMU) 11th Annual Take Flight 5K and 1-mile race is 7:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. May 25 in front of Runway Park. This unique event is a fundraiser for Runway Park and GMU’s Community Corridor, with 100 percent of the donations going back to the community. Fun is mandatory, costumes and teams are encouraged. For details and registration, visit runsignup.com/Race/SC/Greenville/TakeFlight5k .

Curious George: Let’s Get Curious! opens May 25 at the Upcountry History Museum. The exhibition is a hands-on, bilingual (English and Spanish), interactive learning experience, developed for children ages 2 – 8 and their caregivers. It continues through Oct. 6. For details, visit upcountryhistory.org .

Grand Opening of Wings in the Air is May 25 at TCMU-Greenville. Soar to new heights and explore the cultural corner, where guests will embark on an adventurous journey to Colombia. Visit tcmupstate.org .

Disney on Ice: Frozen & Encanto! is May 25 – 27 at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. For tickets, visit bonsecoursarena.com .

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 14, 2024

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 14, 2024

Freebies for Science and STEM Teachers: Grades K–12

Project Learning Tree Activities Looking for ways to engage K–12 learners in exploring nature and studying the environment? This collection of sample learning activities from Project Learning Tree (PLT) is a great place to start. The activities address various grade levels and topics and are drawn from educational materials published by PLT, including activity guides, e-learning units, and other resources.

For example, Backyard Safari (grades K–2) takes young learners outside to look for signs of animal life in the schoolyard, while Web of Life (grades 3–5), explores the topic of food chains in the classroom. The activity Field, Forest, and Stream (grades 6–8) engages middle level learners in investigating how living and nonliving components (e.g., sunlight, soil moisture, temperature, wind, and water flow) affect ecosystems, while Monitoring Forest Health (grades 9–12) teaches high school students how to conduct a health checkup of a local wooded area, take forestry measurements, and evaluate the ecological services provided by trees and forests. ( Note: E-mail registration is required to download the sample activities. )

Freebies for Science and STEM Teachers: Elementary and Middle Level

Make and Color a Paper Airplane This simple activity for grades K–8 from NASA’s Space Crafts Activities Series lets students color, fold, and fly a paper airplane model designed by NASA. The activity includes two printable templates (one color and one black and white), an accompanying instructional video, and links to additional coloring pages and resources. The instructional video not only shows students how to fold the paper to create the plane, but it also features fun facts about NASA.

Freebies for Science and STEM Teachers: Middle Level Through College

“Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban” (Guiding for Tomorrow) Curriculum Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban (Guiding for Tomorrow)—GWOW, Changing Climate, Changing Culture—is an online service-learning curriculum that weaves together Indigenous Ecological Knowledge of the Ojibwe with data-driven science to help students understand climate change impacts. Developed collaboratively in 2015 by Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with continuing support from various partners (e.g., Great Lakes Restoration, NASA, National Park Foundation and other groups), the customizable curriculum for middle level to adult audiences has five components: Ojibwe Lifeways, Investigate the Science, What Can We Do?, Talking Circle, and Additional Resources. The components provide a structured learning sequence for students and teachers to investigate and reflect on the impacts of climate change in their environment. Each component builds upon knowledge gained in prior components.

For example, after working through one or more of the seasonal units presented in Ojibwe lifeways (e.g., maple sugaring and birch bark harvesting, spring; fishing, summer; wild rice harvesting, fall; and respecting our culture, winter), learners move to activities in Investigate the Science, in which they integrate the place-based knowledge they’ve gained with scientific climate change research. After exploring data relationships in Investigate the Science, learners reflect on what they’ve learned and apply that knowledge to action at a community level in the What Can We Do? and Talking Circle components. The Additional Resources component provides supporting climate change resources, project tips, and tools to guide teachers and students through the investigations.

Opportunity for Grades K–College

Churchill Polar Bear Scholarship Grant Natural Habitat Adventures, World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) travel partner, is offering this grant, for which two passionate educators will be selected to join them on their Tundra Lodge & Churchill Highlights tour to Churchill, Canada, to observe polar bears in the wild. During October 7–13, scholarship winners will travel to the tundra to look for bears, with expert interpretation from Nat Hab Expedition Leaders. These guides have in-depth training as naturalists and access to resources from WWF scientists, and they will share their knowledge of this regal apex predator that is a bellwether species for tracking the impacts of climate change. Learn more about the trip here: https://www.nathab.com/polar-bear-tours/tundra-lodge-town-adventure/ .

The grant is open to legal U.S. residents age 18 and older (residents of Puerto Rico and U.S. territories are not eligible). Applicants must be environmental educators, including but not limited to preschool, elementary, middle level, and high school teachers; college professors or faculty; outdoor educators; museum curators; nonprofit outreach specialists; and anyone working in the field of environmental education. (Deadline June 1 )

Opportunity for Grades 5–12

University of Connecticut College of Engineering’s daVinci Program This summer professional development program connects science, math, and technology to engineering. Teachers have a choice of five workshops. Come learn engineered solutions to complex problems using the science and math taught in your classroom. This summer, 17 fellowships are available.

The program will be held during July 8–12 on UCONN’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. This year’s application can be found on the program’s website. Register by June 3.

Opportunity for High School

ASM’s Kishor M. Kulkarni Distinguished High School Teacher Award Presented by the ASM Materials Education Foundation, the award recognizes the accomplishments of a high school science teacher who has demonstrated a significant and sustained impact on pre-college–age students. Candidates must be full- or part-time actively employed high school teachers in the United States or Canada. The award includes a $2,000 cash grant and the recipient’s travel cost of up to $500 to receive the award at the ASM Awards Luncheon. (Deadline June 30 )

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This Gist provides a Proof-of-Concept (POC) for CVE-2023-41892, a Craft CMS vulnerability that allows Remote Code Execution (RCE).

CVE-2023-41892 is a security vulnerability discovered in Craft CMS, a popular content management system. Craft CMS versions affected by this vulnerability allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely, potentially compromising the security and integrity of the application.

This POC is depending on writing webshell, so finding a suitable folder with writable permission is necessary.

Environment's from ACTF 2023

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For more information and insights into this CVE, I would like to extend my thanks to Calif, who provided a reference to their blog post covering this topic:

Calif's Blog Post - Craft CMS Remote Code Execution

This Gist is intended for educational purposes only and should not be used for any malicious activities. Always ensure you have the necessary permissions and follow ethical guidelines when testing or researching security vulnerabilities.

For any questions or clarifications, please feel free to reach out. Stay safe and secure!

DenverEllis commented Oct 3, 2023

Were you able to successfully exploit this? The blog Calif wrote mentions not being able to upload a remote file. Doing some testing of my own, I am not sure this overcomes that limitation.

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to016 commented Oct 4, 2023 • edited

Yes, of course, I can. So, I released my proof of concept. Remote file can be uploaded because i made the php process handling file upload request crash so that it will be saved into the temporary folder.

kafescareless commented Oct 4, 2023

something worng maybe? itry your code in my leb, Remote file can not be uploaded, icheck the files , it didn't existed.

did you check the temporary folder's value via phpinfo() ? if my memory serves me right, i had some problem with the "private" /tmp folder in ubuntu 22.04 environment, after changing the value of it to false make the temp file create successfully or another way is to set the value of temp folder to a different location.

Soya-xy commented Oct 29, 2023 • edited

Is there anything else I need to do? The current poc doesn't work.

Programmer-Red commented Oct 29, 2023

the same problem i'd like to know......

to016 commented Oct 29, 2023

@Programmer-Red @Soya-xy I edited the POC, good luck for the CTF 🙄

Soya-xy commented Oct 29, 2023

N00BIER commented Nov 30, 2023 • edited

can anyone explain what is the role of "files":"msl:/etc/passwd" in writePayloadToTempFile?

if I remove "/etc/passwd" leaving just "files":"msl:", the script would work as expected, so what is the point in /etc/passwd?

to016 commented Nov 30, 2023

can anyone explain what is the role of "files":"msl:/etc/passwd" in writePayloadToTempFile? if I remove "/etc/passwd" leaving just "files":"msl:", the script would work as expected, so what is the point in /etc/passwd?

The role of it is to make the php processing the http file upload request to crash, so the upload file will be saved into temp folder

Ok, thanks. Then my question is why does it work with /etc/passwd omitted in the request?

The way I see it is that PHP simply has no legit path to save file, so the file gets saved to tmp.

N00BIER commented Dec 4, 2023

anyone tried to repro with craft running on windows? for some reason php* files do not get stored in tmp... Any changes to be made to the script so it would work? thank you

m3m0o commented Dec 12, 2023

Thanks man! I had to make a small change to the file being sent in the writePayloadToTempFile function. The tag does not have a / closing it. After adding, the POC worked perfectly.

I don't know if this problem only occurs in my environment. I'll leave it for you to check.

to016 commented Dec 12, 2023 • edited

To be honest, I was a bit rusty when I released the POC and didn't check it carefully. There were some errors in the code (which make the poc not work on orther environment), but it should be alright now (hopefully 🥹). Truly sorry, and thanks for your help to make it complete, guys.

boredcoder411 commented Jan 13, 2024

This dosent work rn, I'm having the same problem as Soya-xy

to016 commented Jan 13, 2024

Can you provide detailed information? I have already fixed the issue for Soya-xy.

boredcoder411 commented Jan 14, 2024

Nvm, I just used a fork of this

naberius616 commented Jan 15, 2024 • edited

Yeah, works cleean, thxxx <3

for me I just delete the proxies and boom

Gfquetnvl32 commented Feb 24, 2024

Hassen-Chtara commented Feb 28, 2024

Thank you man. It didn't quite work for me right away, so I made some adjustments to the script.

If the POC didn't work for you either, give these modifications a try.

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Place a line of glue along the base of the bowl. Wrap the string around the bowl in the line of glue, overlapping on the front half. Stick the extra string down through the hole in each side. Let the glue dry. When your child uses the hat, tie it securely under your child's chin to keep it from slipping.
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