Street PlayMaterials Required: Chalk, two or three sticks and other materials which are generally used to tease

animals in zoosNumber of Students: Not exceeding 15Age Group: 5-10 yearsTime limit: 15 minutes

• Take a chalk and draw a square three feet by three feet on the ground to represent a cage.• Select ten children.• Make five stand inside the square and five outside the square.• Make the five inside the square to act like monkeys in the zoo.• The five children outside the square are zoo visitors and have to tease monkeys inside the cage. They

can make monkey faces or poke the children inside with sticks. They could even make funny noises.• The monkeys (children) inside the square should at that time either attack or huddle up together to

show that they are scared or angry.

Student inside the cage trying to attack a teasing visitor. Street Play at VOC Zoo by five year old Air ForceSchool children, Coimbatore, 29th January 2001, Animal Welfare Fortnightly Celebrations.

Zelda, the Zebra talking tothe monkeys and asking fortheir help to find her stripes.Street Play at Sayaji Baug Zooby seven-year old children ofVidyani Vidyalaya,Vadodara, at a programmeconducted on 30th January2001 during the World WildlifeWeek celebrations.

Hunters trying to shootdown bears.Street Play by village schoolchildren at Mysore, conductedby Regional Museum ofNatural History on 25thJanuary 2001 during the WorldWildlife Week celebrations.

Drawing and CraftMaterials required : Paper, pencil, eraser, and paints

Gum, mud, hay, egg shells, cotton, rice, dal, flowers, leaves colouredpaper, thermocole and any other material that can be used for craftpurpose.

Number of students: 30 - 40, (even numbers).Age group: 10 – 17 yearsTime limit: 120 minutesAim: Students should make a picture using drawing and craft materials in pairs.

· Gather the participants in one room.· Ask the participants to select their partners.· Make them sit in pairs.· Distribute one drawing sheet per pair.· Give them at least three topics to choose from.· At one end of the room provide craft materials on the table.· Give the students some examples of what they could do the craft items.· One student in the pair draws and paints a picture while the other uses the craft material to make the

picture look better, corresponding to the picture that is being painted.· The partners can discuss amongst themselves before they start as to what they are going to make.· For example if one student paints the animals the other with the help of twigs, leaves and dal etc. can

make a forest.· At the end of the two hours take the drawing sheets from them and evaluate their work.

One student paints the background and the other addscraft material to create the subject matter.Twelve-year old students of Mani higher secondary schoolparticipated in the Drawing and Craft competition conductedfor World Environment Day celebrations by Zoo OutreachOrganisation, 2001

Unique paintings of some ofthe kids using items such asdaal, twigs, cotton and eggshells to make three dimen-sional images.

V. Ashok Kumar and S. Prabhuclass seven make an elephantcarring a log of wood. The log isrepresented using a twigs. Theystuck mud to make the ground. Theycut out green colour paper to repre-sent vegetation.

S. Vivek and C. Arvind of class sixpainted a house inthe forest. Theyused hay for the roof of the house,used dyed rice for shrubs, pulses fortrees, cut out coloured paper andbindi for flowers. Cotton painted withblue has been used to representclouds.

C. Raghapriya and V.Sivamangalam of class sevenpainted a peacock on a sunny dayin the forest. They have creativelyused leaves and grass for vegetation,rice and pulses for feathers of thepeacock. Green colour paper hasalso been used to represent vegeta-tion.

Vegetable PaintingMaterials required: Drawing paper, poster paints diluted with

water, brushes, lady’s finger cut into slices, onions cut into halflengthwise, beans cut into three parts, potatoes with clouds or birdsetched on it, and cotton cut into squares.

Number of students: As many as you want, divide them into small groupsAge limit: 3-6 yearsTime limit: 60 minutesAim: To make a colourful painting using vegetable dies.

• Distribute drawing paper to all the participants.• Divide the students into groups of five.• Distribute one set of paint brushes and vegetable dies to each group• Give instructions on how to use the vegetable dies and colours.• E.g.. - Ladys finger when dipped in colour and stamped on paper make pretty flowers.

- Beans make small leaves.- Small onions when dipped in paint and stamped on paper make tulip flowers.- Colour applied on thumb and stamped on paper makes the body of a fish, which can be

completed by drawing tail and fins with a brush dipped in colour.- Cotton when dabbed with paint can make leaves of trees.-They could likewise dab colour on the etched potatoes and use it.- When colour is applied on the full palm of a child and stamped on paper forms a

peacock.- Cotton dipped in paint and dabbed in paper make clouds.

(Tip – make sure that the students do not put too much of paint on the dies. They should put only athin film of diluted paint, to print properly.)• Then give a layout of a drawing for the children to paint. If it is a competition ask the

students to use their imagination to paint with the materials provided.

Group of children ofvarious age groupsof Seva Nilayam (anorphange),Coimbatore createbeautiful paintingsusing vegetabledyes during WorldEnvironment Daycelebrationsconducted by ZooOutreachOrganisation.

Completing the AnimalMaterials required: Black Board and chalk OR Flip sheets and markers, a scarf to blind fold

eyes.Number of students: As many as you want. Divide the students into small groupsAge limit: 10 - 15 yearsTime limit: 3 minutes per group.Aim: Each group has to complete the drawing given to them.

• Divide the students into groups of threes or fours• Give different drawings to each group to complete.• Draw a part of the picture to be completed on the black board. If the complete picture is a plant you

could draw a leaf, if it is a flower then a petal or if it is an elephant then the tail or ears could bedrawn.

• Blindfold one student in the first group.• Then ask the blindfolded student to complete the partially drawn picture.• The others in the group can help him by prompting for only 15 times.• At the end of three minutes, the first group stops and the next group gets its chance with a different

drawing

A student completing a brown bear.This was during the “Dare to Care forBears” programme for World WildlifeWeek celebrations by Tata Zoo,Jamshedpur

A blindfolded boy‘tusking’ the elephant.This was during theVanamahotsava celebra-tions held at Gopal NaiduSchool, Coimbatore,conducted by Zoo OutreachOrganisation.

Find your Rakhi PartnerWhat is a Rakhi?Rakhi is a thin band like the friendship band that is tied around the left wrist. In many Indian states duringa festival called raksha bandhan a sister ties a rakhi to her brother and prays for his protection.Thus in our education programs we ask students to tie rakhis to each other and pledging to protect wildlife.

Materials required: Rakhis and MasksNumber of students: As many as you wantTime limit: 10 minutesAge: 6-10 years

• Distribute education packets containing masks, rakhis, certificates, stickers games etc.• Get the participants to wear their masks.• Ask them to hold the rakhi’s that was in their education packet and find partners

whose masks match their rakhi.• Conduct a rakhi tying ceremony with these partners with each tying

the rakhi on the other. Let them take a pledge relevant to the game beingconducted.

• Whoever conducts this exercise should make up a suitable short speech about caringfor one another and caring for the wildlife.

Who will be my Rakhi partner?10-12 years old students of Apeejayschool at National Zoological Park, NewDelhi, tying matching rakhis to oneanother during the World Wildlife Weekcelebrations on 5th October, 2001

We pledge to protectwildlife.9-14 years old children ofRoyal Convent, Vizagduring the oath takingceremony held during theAnimal Welfare Fortnightlycelebrations, 2002. Thetheme for the programmewas “... Against WildlifeTrade”.

Rangoli BearsWhat is Rangoli?It is a traditional form of art used in most Indian states in different forms. They are traditionaldrawings made either on the wall or the floor of the house. These drawings are made using variousmaterials such as rice powder mixed with water, coloured rangoli powder, chalk powder and flowerpetals etc.

Materials required: Rangoli materials e.g. colours, rangoli powder/flowers/or any otherrangoli material and floor area suitable for rangoli drawing

Number of Students: As many as you wantTime Limit: 60 minutes or as you wishAge: 13-17 years

• Select as many students as you want according to their interest.• Give the participants a choice of topics such as

1. Animal in a cave2. Bird in a cage3. Animal at the zoo4. Animal drinking water5. Monkey eating a banana6. Dancing bear7. Bird on the tree8. Animal by the river side9. My favourite wild animal10. Forest11. Fish in the river12. Wild life by the river side.

• Ask each participant to make rangolis• They can draw according to their age and level.• Select as many students as you want according to their interest.• They can draw habitat components or decorative designs as per their wish.• Provide judges, and give prizes to the best rangoli.

Indian Tiger Skull

Bear inside a cave by a class sevenstudent of Air Force School, Coimbatore.

Bear in the mountains by aclass seven student of AirForce School, Coimbatore

Bear inside a cage by aclass seven student of AirForce School, Coimbatore

Bear trying to get honey byclimbing a tree by a classseven student of Air ForceSchool, Coimbatore

Dancing AnimalsMaterials required: Rakhis, masks, newspapers, music (optional)Number of students: 30 or any even numberTime limit: 30 minutesAge: 3-17 years

• A piece of newspaper (one double sheet of standard large newspaper) represents the forestand the students pair standing on the paper are animals.

Rules:• Throughout the game the partners should stand on the paper — Whoever comes out of the

paper is out of the game. Only while folding the paper they can stand on the ground.• If any one in the pair steps out of the paper while dancing, that pair is out of the game. Even

if one in the pair steps out he or she is out.

Game instructions:• Make the students wear the masks and rakhis they got in their packet.• Ask them to match their masks with another student’s rakhi and form pairs of “bears” or

partners• Give each pair one sheet of a newspaper• Ask them to stand on it after spreading the paper on the floor.• Start the music or if there is no music system the leader can substitute clapping (if there is an

odd student, he or she can join the leader in clapping)• As long as you clap or play the music, the partners must dance – ON the newspaper WITHOUT

twisting on the paper and tearing it.• The moment the music/clapping stops the partners must fold the newspaper once and stand on

it again• Again the music starts and the pair start dancing on the folded paper, now half as large as

before.• Each time the music or clapping is stopped the newspaper is folded in half once again.

Thus the game continues till only one pair is left on a small piece of folded newspaper.

Play music or clap until they too step out of the paper – it won’t take long and will be very funnyto watch.Conclusion: The leader can then explain that as the forests shrink even the animal populationbegin to shrink. Finally when all the trees are cut down and forests are destroyed all the animalsliving in the forest will also be destroyed.

We need more habitat to live. Dancingbears game organised by Zoo OutreachOrgansiation with class seven students ofAir Force School, Coimbatore during theWorld Wildlife Week celebrations.

Students laying outthe newspaperwhich representhabitat. Thisprogramme wasconducted by NationalZoological Park duringthe World WildlifeWeek celebrations.

How Many Animals canfill a T shirtMaterials required: One XXL T-shirtNumber of participants: As many as want can try to participateTime limit: 10 – 15 minutesAge: 4-7 years

It has been said that an Ambassador car will hold30 people during a political rally! The object ofthis exercise is to see how many students can fitinto an Indian XXL T-shirt (especially provided ina kit).This exercise has to be carefully monitored so thatno student is hurt or suffocated.

· Start with two students and place the T-shirt over their heads with two heads in the collar.

· Then fill the T-shirt with students, one by one.· More can get their head into the collar depending on the age of the students. When the collar

fills up and starts to split, you can use the arms … probably two students can occupy the arms.· If you are really into this and it has not become dangerous, you can take a pair of blunt

scissors and cut a few holes in the T-shirt in strategic places so that other heads can comeout and the participants can breathe.

· Be sure and record the number of students that finally got in the T-shirt.Caution: Be VERY sure no student is getting too much squeezed, trampled or suffocated

Students of Air Force School, Coimbatoreduring the World Wildlife Week celebrationsconducted by Zoo Outreach Organisation

Six students manageto fit into an XXL t-shirt during the WorldWildlife Week celebra-tions conducted byRegional Museum ofNatural History, Mysore

Six students manage to fit into an XXL t-shirt during the World Wildlife Weekcelebrations conducted by Sepahijala Zoo.

Five bears were able to fit into an XXLt-shirt during the World Wildlife Weekcelebrations conducted by Lucknow Zooon 5th October, 2001

Drawing and PaintingCompetitionMaterials required: Paper, pencil, eraser and paints/crayonsNumber of students: As many as you wantAge group: 6 – 17 yearsTime limit: 120 minutes

· Select interested students · Distribute the drawing paper to the participants.OPTION I· Give them topics on wild life such as

1. My favorite wild animal.2. Wildlife by the river side.3. The world I would like to live in.4. Animal planet.

· You could either write down the topics on the black board or write the topics in the chit· They can choose any of the topicsto draw and paint.· At the end of the 120 minutestake the sheets from them andevaluate the paintings. The bestthree can get a prize.

OPTION IIYou could also tell them a story andask them to illustrate any one sceneof the story and paint it.

Flower of Friendship

There was once an old Camel whocarried goods for a farmer from onevillage to another. That day he wasexhausted and sat down. The farmerknew that his camel was tired, so heput the goods on to another camel. He left the old camel behind with a lot of food and water. TheCamel thanked the master for his kindness.A tiger passed by the camel at that time. He had been hurt by an elephant and was in pain. He foundit difficult to walk and laid down beside the Camel. The camel offered him food and water hismaster had left behind. In a few days, the tiger and the camel became well. The tiger was veryhungry. The Camel told him “Kill and eat my meat”. But the tiger could not think of killing his friend.At that time a deer came running towards them. He was shot by a hunter and was dying. He toojoined the group. He told the tiger “I am already dying. Please eat my meat. I don’t want the hunterto take me away”. Saying this the deer died. The tiger did as he was told.Just then the hunter came to the spot. The angry tiger jumped at him and killed him. He alsoreleased a young deer that was in the hunter’s bag. The camel and the tiger lived happily in theforest after that.

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Class seven students of Kendriya Vidyalaya,Sulur exploring their creative talents

Double Trap

A flock of birds had been living on a tree for many years. They loved their home.A hunter wanted to catch these beautiful birds. In order to reach the top of the tree, he sowed seeds of asmall creeper nearby. In a short time the creeper grew tall, winding its way up the tree trunk.A wise old bird observed all this. He told his flock that it was not safe to live there anymore. The hunterwould one day surely climb up the creeper and trap them all. But the young birds did not listen to him. Oneday while all the birds were away, the hunter climbed up the tree and laid a trap to catch them all. In theevening the birds came back and went to sleep. Next morning when they tried to fly they could not. Theyhad been caught in the trap. The wise bird alone was free because he slept on the topmost branch of thetree. He asked all the birds to quieten down and listen to a plan he had to set them free. All the birdsagreed.As soon as he gave out a call, all the birds spread their wings at the same time and flew with the hunter’snest. High up in the sky they flew out of the nest one by one. As the hunter was chasing, the empty netfloated down and trapped the surprised hunter.

The Strange Passenger

In a forest, there was a lake. Asthe lake was drying up, the fishof the lake began to movefarther away from the banks.Two cranes also lived on thebanks of this lake. Now theycould not get enough fish to eat.So the two birds decided to flyto another lake which was fullof fish.Their friend, the turtle, asked the cranes to take him with them. But how could he go? He had no wings tofly with.The turtle had a plan. He asked the cranes to bring a long stick and hold each end of the stick with theirbeaks. Then turtle then slowly walked up to the stick and held it with his mouth. The cranes now understoodthe idea.They spread their wings and flew for a short distance to check if the turtle could manage. The planworked. They were happy that they could live together in the new lake.Before taking off, one of the cranes told the turtle that he should not open his mouth during the flight. Ifhe did so , he would fall down and die. The turtle promised to obey.Then next day they were ready to take off. As they flew in the air, the turtle was very happy. They flewover many hills, fields and rivers that the turtle had never seen before as he always crawled on the ground.He liked what he saw.As they were passing over a village, the people looked up at the strange sight. They laughed and wonderedwhat was happening. The turtle was angry to see the people laughing at them. He remembered the promisehe had made to his friends and kept quiet. Beyond the village there was a beautiful lake with trees and alot of fish. The turtle safely got down.In the evening the people saw the cranes and the turtle and understood what had happened. The childrenof the village soon became friends with the turtle and the crane. They had taught them that friends shouldalways help one another.

Paintings of students who participated in the World Wildlife Weekcelebrations conducted by Trivandrum Zoo

Babita Prasad of class sevenpainted the “World I want to livein”

R. Elamparithi of class ninepaints his favourite animal

Deepti of class eight paints“My favourite wild animals”

Some of the paintings by the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya school, Coimbatore at a competitionconcucted by Zoo outreach during Animal Welfare Fortnightly celebrations 2001

Essay WritingMaterials required: Slides, Slide projector or pictures/poster, paper, pen and eraserNumber of students: As many as you want but in even numbers.Age group: 10 – 17 yearsTime limit: 120 minutes

• Select interested students• Ask them to take their seats• Distribute writing paper to all the participants.• Give them topics such as1. Habitat destruction a threat to wild life2. Population growth and wildlife conservation3. The world I want to live in4. Do we require zoos?5. Or show them the pictures given below and in the next page and ask them to write an essay.6. You could also show the students a slide show and ask them to write an essay on it.• After 120 minutes take the sheets from them and evaluate the papers with the help of judges.

You could judge a paper on 100 marks. 10 marks for Introduction, 10 for conclusion, 20 forstatistical information and facts stated, 55 for the number of points covered, and 5 marks forthe handwriting.

• The best three can get prizes.

Following are some pictures for posters on Dancing Bears which can be used for essaywriting competition with an appropriate topic.

Example 1

Posters for Essay WritingExample 2

Example 3

Example 4

Just a LineMaterials required: Topics written down in a chit.Number of students: One student per topic, as many as you wantAge group: 8 – 14 yearsTime limit: 1 minute per student

• Write out topics in a chit.• Make sure you have one topic per child. If there are 35 children there should be 40 topics• 95 % of the questions should be on environment and wild life and just a few questions can be

on other topics just to break the monotony.• The topics can be as follows :

1. Hiss like a snakes2. Few words about the sun3. Some thing on dears4. Few words about destroying forests5. Ca like a crow6. Jump like a kangaroo7. Roar like a lion8. Swim like a fish (with your hands)9. Bray like a donkey.10. Few words about butterflies11. Are you a vegetarian or a non vegetarian and why?12. Draw a flower on the board.13. Tell a few words about soil.14. Tell a few words about the zoo15. Croak like a frog16. Jump like a frog17. Few words about a river18. Your favourite animal and why.19. Bray like a donkey20. Do you like the rain, and why?21. Act like a cat hunting a mouse22. Which is your favourite fruit and why23. Quack like a duck24. What is the sea25. Say this fast, ‘ she sells sea shells on the sea shore’.26. Name a few trees27. What does the tree contribute to the environment28. Pretend to be in front of a mirror29. Tell us some thing about your best friend.30. Pretend to climb a tree like a monkey31. Stand like a Gandhi statue32. Kick like a donkey33. Bark like a dog?34. Few words about vegetables35. Help a blind man cross the road

Web of LifeMaterials required: Roll of thread, Name cards with the four basic components i.e. sun, air,

water and soil written and about twenty name cards of the variouselements of nature, e.g. Plants, insects, rat, lion, bear, butterfly, etc.

Number of students: As many as the number of name cardsAge group: 10-16 years-Time limit: 30 minutesAim: To demonstrate that all life forms depend on each other, directly or

indirectly.

• Ask all the students to stand in a circle.• Give each student a name card and ask him or her to pin it up so that it shows.• Give the roll of thread to the student with ‘The Sun’ name card, as the sun is the most

important source of energy for all life forms.• He should wrap one end of the roll of thread to his finger and pass it on to some element

related to it and explain why he has passed it on to that element.• Say he passes it on to a tree. Then he must explain that the sun gives energy to the tree to

make its food.• Then the tree passes the ball of thread to another student say a bird, and thus each student

passes the ball of thread around, till all of them have had the ball of thread passed on to themat least once.

• Thus they would haveformed a web withthe help of thethread. This showsthat all life forms areinterdependent.

• After all the studentshave become a partof the web, ask themto raise the web high.They will notice thatit is tight and doesnot sag. If you pressthis web down it hasa natural tendency toget back to place.This shows thatdespite slightdisturbance in natureall the elements have the ability to come back to its place.

• Now let one of the elements , say water release the thread from its finger. Ask them to noticethe visual effect. Drop one more element related to it. Now press the web down. You willnotice that the web does not bounce back to normal like earlier.

• Conclude the game by explaining that all the elements in nature are interrelated, if notdirectly, indirectly. Because each component is a part of this web of life. If any one elementis disrupted the entire web slowly starts collapsing.

Children of R.V.S. School, Sulur play a game called “Web of Life” duringthe World Wildlife Week celebrations on 31st January 2002. 2002 .

Fish a FishMaterials required: 20 pieces offish cutouts and chalk.Number of students: As many students as you want preferably 20.Age group: 10-16 years-Time limit: 30 minutesAim: To show that one should take only what one needs from the environment.

• This game has three rounds, the number of rounds can be increased.• Draw a circle on the ground as a representation of a pond.• Get the students to stand around the circle.• The organiser should take ten pieces of paper depicting fish and place them separately in the

circle.• Then ask the students to catch the fish.• The students will catch all the fish.• Take the fish back from the students and place them in the circle for the second round.• Now tell the students to come and fish only if they want it. Also tell them that if they leave

behind some fish then the fish doubles. That is if two pieces of paper (fish) is left behindthen in the third round there will be 8+4[2 (left behind) + 2 (doubled)] fishes.

• Take all the pieces of paper back from the students.• Now put the pieces of paper in the circle with the extra pieces, in this case you will now have

twelve fishes.• You will find that the number of fish have increased in the pond.• For the third round repeat the same process.• In this way you will find the fish in the pond keeps increasing and there is enough fish for

every one - Sustainable use.

Children fishing fish that is available inplenty

The number of fish have now depleted due tooverfishing. Thus the children learn the harmfuleffects of overexploitation

Fish of different sizes. These can be xeroxedon colour paper. The small fish can be usedas new fish in the pond.

Oh Deer!Materials required: NilNumber of students: As many students as you want.Age group: 10-16 years-Time limit: 30 minutes

This game has two roundsFirst Round• Divide the students into two groups.• One group is the resources and the other group the deer in need of the various resources.• Get the two groups to stand in two straight lines, backs facing each other. So that neither of

the two groups can see each other.• The resources can be food, water, and shelter/habitat.• Each of these resources like food , water and shelter can de symbolically depicted by hand

signs.• The recourse group is still.• The participants in the deer group have to think and express one of the three resources they

need the most at that particular moment.• When the organiser says “go” the deer have to run to the resource they need.• In case the resource is already occupied by a deer then another deer seeking the same

resource had to go out of the game.

Second Round• Ask the deer to get back to their places i.e. make them stand in a line again.• Get the students in the resource line of students to depict water, i.e. there is a flood.• The deer as before should express one of the resources they need most at that time.• When the organiser says go the deer should run to the resource they want at that particular

time.• Only a few deer will get what they want at that time, the rest of them will go out of the game.

This shows that not all the resources are available in abundance at the same time. Someresources such as water are abundant in case of flood, and the animals die during that time.

Materials Required: Chart paper, sketch pens, scissors, Handkerchief, Potato or brinjal,rubber band, paper bag, gum

Number of Students: As many students as you want.Age group: 10-16 years-Time limit: 60 minutes

• Divide the students into groups• Let each group have at least five students.• Teach them how to make puppets as described below• Give each group fifteen minutes time and ask them to formulate a short story that could be

enacted with the help of these puppets.• Now ask each group to come up to the stage and play their story with the help of the puppets.

Finger puppet - elephantMaterials required: Chart paper, Sketch pens, Scissors

Vegatible puppet - manMaterials required: Handkerchief, Potato or brinjal, rubber band, sketch pens

Take a potatato, slice it at thebottom. Scoop the contents of thepotato with a knife sufficientlyso that the index finger fits thehole properly.

Puppet Show

Draw out the front view Colour the elephant

Put the index finger inside themouth of the elephant to get thetrunt. During the puppet show youcould move the finger around eachtime the elephant says some thing.

Cut out the elephant.Also cut its mouth.

You can even have a babyelephant. It just needs tobe smaller in size.

Indian Tiger Skull

Draw the face of an animal ora man on the facing side ofthe potato.

Cover your handwith a largeHankie and putthe index fingerinto the potato.

Tie the other two fingers each with a rubberband so that they serve as hands for thepuppet.

Now your puppet is ready for the show. Youcould use move its head while it talks. The handsalso could be moved.

Paper bag puppet - frog

Materials required: Paper bag, Sketch pen, Scissors, Gum

Follow the instructions below and make a frod puppet.Note: Whenever you want to fold paper, you must first place a steel scale along the place where

you wantto fold. Then with the wrong side of a cutter/scoring-blade lightly score along theside of the scale. Once this is done you can easily fold the paper along the scored line

Take a paper bag Mark out one fourth of thebag to make a fold

Fold the bag where youmade the mark.

Make diagnol fold markson the folded flap

Fold at the place whereyou made a fold mark

Draw and cot out a pair ofeyes and hands

Stick the hands and eyes behind the packet

Draw the nose out

Open the mouth of the frog and paint it as shown above.Now the frog is ready for use

Take any rectangular piece of chart paper

Cone puppet - narratorMaterials required: Chart paper, Sketch pens, gum and Scissors

Fold the paper in the shape of a coneand stick it.

Dray out the face of a man on the cone

Draw and cut out two hands from aseperate piece of paper

Stick the hands to the back side of the cone. Younarrator is now ready for the performance

ONE MORE PUPPET TO COME

A puppet show showingthe harmful effects ofhuman intervention onwildlife at the Environ-ment education work-shop conducted atMadras Crocodile Bank,Chennai

Tree SignaturesMaterials required: Paper, pencil/crayonNumber of students: As many students as you want.Age group: 6-12 years-Time limit: 30 minutes

• Give each student a paper and pencil.• Take them around the zoo / school park where there are trees• Tell them the names of the trees, its age and other details.• Ask the student to take imprints of a bark of a tree and write the name of the tree below.

Imprints can be taken by keeping the paper on the bark and scribble on it using a pencil orcrayon.

• They can measure the height of the tree using approximations, i.e. if a students height is fourfeet he can approximately measure the height of the tree in relation to his own height.

Tree signatures are easy to teach andfun to do.

This is a signature of a Gulmohar tree.Note the pattern produced on thepaper.

Work SheetMaterials required: Work sheet and pencilNumber of students: As many students as you want.Age group: 10-15 yearsTime limit: 30 minutes

• Give all the students a work sheet each and a pencil.• The work sheet will have questions like.1 Name the animal that crawls.2 Which animal has scales on its body.3 Name the animal with the shortest tail in the zoo.4 Name the tallest animal.5 Which animal has spots on its body.6 Name one reptile that crawls.7 One bird that was making some sound8 One reptile that swims9 An animal that has a horn10 One animal with eyes in front of their face11 One animal with flap like ears12 One animal with fur on its body13 One animal that walks on two legs14 One animal that uses its tail to help move15 One animal that has prominent canine teeth16 One animal that eats insects17 An animal that eats meat18 An animal that eats grass19 One animal that eats fruits20 A bird having a bath21 An animal that was scratching22 An animal that was sunbathing23 A reptile that has a shell24 Three animal that have a tail25 Two animal that lay eggs26 One animal that has hair on its body27 An animal that moves slowly28 A animal that was resting under a tree29 an animal that was sleeping inside the water30 An animal that lives partly in water

• The questions should be based on the animals that are there in your zoo.• Let the students read the questions before they go to the zoo.• Take them around the zoo and ask them to fill up the questions. You could also discuss the

answers later.• Give away prizes to those who answered most of the questions

correct.

Poster/Collage MakingMaterials required: Newspapers, chart paper, sketch pens, scale, gum.Number of students: As many students as you want.Age group: 10-17 years-Time limit: 60 minutes

• Divide the students into groups of five students in each group• Give each group one chart paper, a set of five to six news papers, sketch pens and gum• Get them to make a poster/collage on any topic related to environment with the help of the

newspapers given to them.• The pictures and text should be cut out of the newspaper.• They should give their respective posters a catchy caption title.• Once the posters are done one student from each group must come forward and present the

poster, explaining what their poster means.• At the end you could give the best poster a prize.

Children preparing a posteron environment-related topics

Instructor presents the postersmade by the participants at aenvironment education workshop.

Survival of the FittestMaterials Required: MasksNumber of Students: As many as you wantTime limit: 30 minutesAge: 6-12 years

• Depending on the strength on the students’draw a big circle on the ground with achalk. (All the students must be able to runinside the circle)

• Divide it into eight parts and number them1-8 clearly.

• Make the students stand in a big circle,wearing their masks.

• The person who conducts the programswill stand facing away from the studentsand start clapping. (If you can play music,it will be better)

• The students start running within thecircle and keep running till the clappingstops.

• Then the conductor says a numberbetween 1-8, including 1 and 8.

• The children within the number announced come out of the game.• The game goes on this way till there is only one student left.• This student is the winner.

“Who is the fittest?”. Ten year old children at the Lucknowzoo play the game to understand the concept of survival

Complete the Bearin its HabitatMaterials Required: Black Board or large paper sheets or chart paper

Chalk or penPictures of the four bears faces,Watch with minute hand

Number of Students: 4 TeamsTime Limit: 3 minutes per teamAge: 10-15 yearsObjective: To draw a bear in his habitat

• Divide students into four teams• Let one team draw the face of the bear – one student to draw and others (only on their team)

should shout instructions.• The next team draws the body (one student to draw … etc.)• The next team draws plants and trees (as above)• And last team draws hills, gully’s, rocks (as above)

This exercise could be followed by a story in quick time with each member of each teamcontributing a sentence about the component in their team assignment, again giving 3 minutes perteam, e.g. the “face team” just tells things about the face, the “body team” tells about the body,etc.

Memory GameMaterials Required: Paper, board and pencilNumber of Students: As many as you want.Time Limit: 5 minutes talk, 10 minutes to observe and 5 minutes to writeAge: 6-17 years

• This game can be conducted with as many students as you want.• Take all the children to the exhibit tell them certain facts about the animal, for e.g. what it

eats, its life span, the number of babies it produces a year, etc.• Then allow them to stand and observe the animalfor ten minutes.• After that take them to a place where they cannot see the bear• Make them write down every thing they noticed in the exhibit about the bear. E.g. Its hair

colour, its claws, its height, the colour of its eyes• You could take them to more than one exhibit and repeate the process• They can then compare the difference for themselves

Children looking at animals in the enclosures,including the signages before each of the them andlater writing what they can remember about thedifferent animals in the zoo.

Join the DotsMaterials required: Join the dots sheet, pencil and coloursNumber of students: One student per sheetAge group: 6- 10 yearsTime limit: 10 minutes

• Give each student a sheet of join the dots.• Ask them to sit in their places and join the dots of the butterfly or hornbill given to them• They can colour the picture too.• If there are many students you can xerox the picture and give it to the students.

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Join the DotsMaterials required: Join the dots sheet, pencil and coloursNumber of students: One student per sheetAge group: 6- 8 yearsTime limit: 10 minutes

Making of a Puzzle• Draw a cross word square of 15/15 blocks on a paper with a pen, or you can draw it using

the computer and take a printout. Use the programs MS Word as it is pest suited for thispurpose.

• Write up a list of provable questions and their answers in a separate sheet.• To start making the cross word, look at the answers and ignore the questions for the time

being.• Write out one of the answers in the cross word square.

M O O N B E A R• Then you look for alphabets in the word ‘moon bear’ which is the starting alphabet of some

other answer for example ‘omnivorous’ or ‘Berries’

• Next, you can fit in the word ‘Brown Bear’ to the cross word like shown below

• In this way fill in as many words to the cross word puzzle• The blocks in the puzzle that are not filled with alphabets should be filled with black• Then number the start of each word as shown below. Then delete all the alphabets from the

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• Now put down the questions corresponding to each numbers shown below. Beside the questionput down the number of alphabets the word consists off.

ACROSS 1. The other name of the Himalayan Black Bear (8)4. A species of bear that does not climb trees (9)

DOWN 2. Bears eat plants , insects and small animals so they are ... (10)3. Bears pick ________ from trees and eat them (7)

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Cross Word IAcross1. Other name of Black Bear (8)5. Bear that does not climb trees (9)7. Young ones of bears (4)8. Commonly used dancing bear in India (9)11. Smallest Bear in India (7)12. Part of bear used for medicine (11)13. Hibernating season of Black Bears (6)Down2. Bears eat plants, insects and small animals so they are (10)3. Bears love to eat (7)4. Most developed sense (5)6. Bears are active (5)7. The part that the bears use to dig termite nests (5)9. Other name of Malayan Sun Bear (9)10. The number of Bear species in India (4)

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Cross Word IIAcross1. Animal whose paws are used in oriental medicine4. Crab that is in trade for its blue blood for research6. Animal found only in Himalayas that is mainly in pet trade10. Shahtoosh shawl is made from which animal?11. Part of big cats that is mainly in trade12. Part of frogs that is in trade14. Part of elephant and seal used to make ivory goods15. Flower mainly traded for its ornamental value17. Shell of which reptile is used to make combs and brushes?

Down2. Animal whose horn is used to make dagger handles3. Place where Endangered animals are bred5. Monkeys are used mainly for what purpose?7. Marine animals used to extract agar-agar8. Part of the Porcupine used for writing purposes9. Insect used in Japan for textile design13. The nest of which bird is in trade?16. Deer that is poached to manufacture perfume

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Puzzle IMaterials required: NilNumber of students: one per sheetAge group: 10 to 17 yearsTime limit: Nil

• Give the students a puzzle sheet• Ask them to fill up the squares with the answers to the questions below.

1. Bears that have a moon shaped mark on their chest2. The most commonly used Dancing Bear in India3. The gallbladder of Bears are used by the Japanese to make4. Bears belong to the family5. The colour of the heart shaped mark on the sun bear is6. The colour of a Sloth Bear is7. Name a part of the bear that is vestigial (a part of the body that is no longer useful).8. The person who cures bears when they fall sick9. Bears live in the10. Part of the Bear that is used in a Chinese Dish.11. Animals that are the largest terrestrial carnivores12. Bears pick __________ from trees and eat.13. Bears also love to eat14. One reason for the reduction in the number of bears in the forest15. In winter Black Bear and Brown Bear are known to______16. The only Indian bear that does not climb trees

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Puzzle IIMaterials required: Sheet with the puzzleNumber of students: one per sheetAge group: 10 to 17 yearsTime limit: Nil

• Give the students a puzzle sheet• Ask them to fill up the blocks of the puzzle below by answering the questions in its order.• After you answer all the questions correctly you will discover the name of the animal that lives

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1. Part of the tiger believed to cure toothaches2. Part of the mongoose used in paintbrushes3. System of Indian medicine that no longer uses animal parts4. Species of Monkey found only in the Western Ghats5. Animal that is mainly poached for its ivory6. Scented wood traded to make statues and sculptures.7. Markhor is mainly hunted for its ………8. Rhino horn is believed to cure .........9. Animal whose fur is used to make hats in China10. Other name of Shahtoosh

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MazeMaterials required: Maze, pencilNumber of students: one per sheetAge group: 6 to 12 yearsTime limit: Nil

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• Ask them to track the elephant down to itstraded part i.e. its tusks and the bear downto its traded part that is its gall bladder.

• The students could track the animals to itshome also

• Then you could tell the students how theseparts are traded and their usage.

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Board Game IMaterials required: Board gameNumber of students: four players at a timeAge group: 10 to 17 yearsTime limit: nil

• A maximum of four players can play this game at a time.• The game instructions are given in the board.• Ask the players to read it and then start playing.• All four start from ‘START’ and while in the process of the game they go through all the ups

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Board Game IIMaterials required: Board gameNumber of students: four players at a timeAge group: 10 to 17 yearsTime limit: Nil

• A maximum of four players can play this game• Of which two are poachers and two wildlife wardens.• All four players start from ‘START’ in their respective positions.• In the process of the game the players get to know how poachers trade animals and how the

wildlife wardens try to save the animals and catch the poachers.

Colour the PictureMaterials Required: Picture to be coloured, colours.Number of Students: One per pictureAge Group: 6- 10 yearsTime Limit: 30 minutes

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Rajesh colours the wings of thebutterfly that he found in his littlebooklet in the “...Against WildlifeTrade” packet

Match the FollowingMaterials Required: Sheet with match the followingNumber of Students: One sheet per pictureAge Group: 8 – 13 years-Time Limit: 5 minutes each assignment

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Match the following animalsThese animals belong to the cat familyand many of them you will see in the

zoo today.

Answers1.Tiger 2.Lioness 3.,4.Leopard 5.Clouded

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