I have some easy ideas for Amazon Rainforest crafts and a fun bubble wrap patterned anaconda. And I have more ideas on my pages Rain Forest – Amazon, Rain Forest – Animals of the Amazon, and Rainforest Amazon Activities for Kids.
Exploring the beauty and mystery of the Amazon Rainforest gives your child a chance to really dig in and learn a lot, spend extra time on their favorite parts, and can be enjoyed by everyone in the family.
You can focus on the flora or fauna, products that come from the rainforest, conservation, or the ecosystem.
I have an easy and fun bubble wrap anaconda project for today that can be modified for everyone in the family, encouraging older children to make more complicated designs.
Creating your anaconda from craft foam instead of paper gives you a sturdier longer lasting rainforest craft that can even be taken outside.
Or perhaps in the bathtub, after all the scientific name for Anaconda is – Eunectes murinus, and it means “good swimmer” in Latin.
Rainforest Creature Facts
- The green anaconda is the largest snake in the world, the record being 33 feet long, 3 feet wide at its longest point, and almost 900 lbs.
- Anacondas are semi-aquatic, preferring the water, they are great swimmers, but will also climb trees in search of food and like to hang, waiting for prey.
- The rainforest is home to many carnivorous plants, that is plants that eat insects and small animals.
- Macaws are the largest species of parrot and are well known for their beautifully colored feathers.
- There is an amazing lizard, the common basilisk, that is known as the Jesus lizard. Why? Because it can run on water.
- Sloths spend 90% of their life hanging upside down.
Then, look at these rain forest crafts.
More Hands-On Rainforest Crafts
Make these Paper Chain Pythons and work on fine motor skills at the same time.
Sloths will forever get my vote as the cutest rainforest animal, just look at this Handprint Sloth Craft.
Not every craft has to look like what you think it should, there is much value in letting your child work through the process without working towards a perfect final product like in this Rainforest Process Art.
Rainforest Animals Do a Dot is a simple artwork that is ideal for when you need to give them a simple activity to work on.
I love these fun and colorful Twirling Parrots, they are a great rainforest craft to add to your list.
If you want to set the mood for a colorful rainforest unit study this DIY Tropical Garland makes for a great craft as well as a decor item.
These Amazon Orchids are a lovely way to learn about the Amazon Rainforest flora.
If you want something to create a simple diorama look with everything included in one box look at this 3D Amazon Rainforest Puzzle.
Then, look at these books for ideas for Amazon Rainforest crafts and animals.
21 Rain Forest Animals For Kids Books and Resources
Add these rain forest animal books, games, and toys to round out your study of the animals of the rain forest.
It is a great way to expand the growth with children through physical science.
This book explores the rainforest layer by layer and the creatures that make their home in each part of the rainforest.
Which rainforest animal is a frog that uses its eyes to help it swallow its food? Which rainforest animal is a bird with a big, colorful bill? Let's learn more about rainforest animals such as sloths, poison dart frogs, toucans, and more! Read With You's Who Am I? series encourages children to be more curious about the world around them as they learn fun facts about animals from across the globe.
Part of the critically acclaimed Over and Under series that includes Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt and Over and Under the Snow!Under the canopy of the rainforest hundreds of animals make their homes, but up in the leaves hides another world. Turn the pages of this beautiful and educational book to discover in words and mesmerizing illustration:
Animals like the slender parrot snake and the blue morpho butterfly.
The canopies where toucans and pale-billed woodpeckers chatter and call.
Capuchin monkeys who swing from vines and slow-moving sloths who wait out daily thunderstorms.
Sloth Toy Figurine
The rainforest is home to millions of plant and animal species. Some animals live high up in the trees, some crawl across the forest floor, and some tunnel underground, but they all depend on one another and the rain to survive. With colorful illustrations and fascinating diagrams from author-illustrator Kate Duke, In the Rainforest is a lively look at the most vibrant ecosystem on our planet.
This book introduces readers to the largest snake in the world: the anaconda. Readers learn about the life cycle, behavior, physical characteristics, and habitat of anacondas
Expanding the popular collection of animal books in the Learn to Draw Series, Learn to Draw Rainforest & Jungle Animals will teach kids how easy it is to draw a variety of exciting and exotic creatures from around the world. Each project starts with a basic shape and progresses with simple-to-follow steps to a finished realistic final colored artwork. While they’re learning, kids will also discover fun facts about each featured animal.
Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back down again, following the circle of life in this clever adaptation of the song “The Green Grass Grew All Around.” The jungle comes alive as children learn about a wide variety of the animals (jaguars, emerald tree boas, leafcutter ants, sloths, poison dart frogs, toucans, and bats) and plants (kapok trees, liana vines, and bromeliads) living in the lush Amazon rainforest. Delve even deeper into the jungle using sidebars and the three-page “For Creative Minds” educational section.
While it covers more than just the rainforest this is a fabulous resource to have on your shelves. You will find plenty of great pictures and information on many animals that live there- crocodiles, harpy eagles, monkeys, tapir , sloths,Jaguarundi, and the food web.
COLORFUL ARTWORK: Kids will love the colorful puzzle artwork showing the animals, plants, trees and birds that call the rainforest home. The storage box shows the completed puzzle artwork and is an ideal place to keep pieces safe and free from damage.
Tells a story of a man who came to cut down a kapok tree and encounters many of the beautiful and exotic native creatures who make their home in the Amazon Rainforest.
FUN FACTS: How about Reptiles versus Amphibians?! That's just one of the topic cards in this kids card game. Find out more fun facts from Eggs to the Komodo Dragon!
How fun!
FRESH & FRUITY: Fruidles single-flavor gummies pack giant taste into one delicious flavor. After one bite of these fruity gummies, you'll taste the difference of giant fresh fruit flavors & a deliciously soft chew you won't find with other gummy candies.
This bright and exciting Hello, World! board book teaches toddlers all about the amazing world of a rainforest—with easy-to-understand facts about the incredible animals who make their home there.
Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life—animal and plant alike.
Compete to grow the most bountiful rainforest! Carefully select what grows in your forest, and give rise to a thriving ecosystem.
Features a frog, a fly and a parrot with articulated wings and tail, opening mouth and rotatable eyes 3-in-1 model: rebuilds into a chameleon or a tropical fish
Vampire bats and killer ants? That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them away to the Amazon River. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree house? Or are Jack and Annie stuck forever in the rain forest?
NatureI n a tropical rain forest in Central America, a red-eyed tree frog spends the night looking for food while avoiding potential predators. Award-winning photographer Nic Bishop's larger-than-life, gorgeous images document the hunt, which ends happily with the frog settling down in the leaves to spend his daylight hours sleeping! Joy Cowley's simple, readable text makes the frog's story fun, interesting, and accessible to young readers.
Explores the richness of the Amazon rainforest, how humans have damaged it, and efforts being taken to protect it. Clear text, vibrant photos, and helpful infographics make this book an accessible and engaging read.
More Rainforest Activities for Kids
- Learn About Mammals In The Amazon Rainforest & Make an Adorable Sloth Craft
- Blue Morpho Butterfly Adaptations In The Tropical Rainforest and Fun Symmetry Craft
- Amazon Rainforest Predators and Make a Fun Pasta Emerald Tree Boa
- Creating Fun Red Eyed Tree Frog Manipulatives for Rain Forest Math
- Cute Colorful Toilet Paper Roll Rainforest Frogs for a Rainforest Frog Craft
- 18 Rain Forest Animals For Kids Books and Fun Resources
- Beautiful And Colorful Amazonian Rainforest Animals Lapbook For Kids
- 100+ Best and Free Tropical Amazon Rainforest Educators Resources
- The Ultimate Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the Amazon Rain Forest
- 3 Free and Amazing Amazon Rainforest Lapbooks for Kids
- Rainforest Crafts for Kindergarten: Make an Easy Paper Plate Monkey
- 19 Fun Hands-on Rainforest Activities for Kindergarten
- Rainforest Science Activities For Kindergarten Amazing and Fun Living Terrarium
- Wildlife in the Amazon Rainforest – Create Fun Macaw and Toucan Crafts
Then make this fun bubble wrap patterned anaconda.
Rainforest Crafts – Bubble Wrap Anaconda
You will need:
- A large sheet of green craft foam
- Bubble wrap
- 2 to 3 paint colors.
- Foam brushes
- Scissors
- A marker
Cut your bubble wrap to the same size or just slightly smaller than your foam sheet. I used large foam sheets-12×18, but you could also use construction paper or even a green poster board sheet.
Add 2 to 3 colors to your paint palette. A paper plate works wonderfully for this.
Then have your child dab the color all over the bubble wrap side and be sure to give it a good coating.
Turn the bubble wrap over and press it firmly all over the paper. You can press it by sliding your hands along but make sure you hold it in place, so it doesn’t smear.
Carefully lift the bubble wrap to reveal your snake scales.
Allow it to dry completely.
Flip your craft foam over and somewhere near the center draw a simple, triangular snake head. You can draw the entire coiled snake body if you like but I prefer to give it a little more freehand shape for the body.
Cut the head out first and then spiral around, cutting a shaped body from the head to the tail.
Use markers to put on round eyes with slits.
Add a little forked tongue cut out of red craft foam and glue in place.
Because your anaconda is made of craft foam it is more durable and would be a fun part of outdoor play.
