I did not have any poster boards around but found a roll of brown paper used for mailing packages. I cut off a huge piece and after finding the map of Africa, quickly drew an outline slightly resembling the shape of Africa. I use the word slightly to the fullest extent. I did not take time for this. The point of the project was really all about the animals anyway.
I have a few wildlife magazines, but we opted to go to the internet and find pictures of animals that can be found in Africa. We carefully printed out only pages that had the animals we needed. We cut them out and adhered them to the map, putting them in the area of Africa that they are most likely to be found.
We had the best time working on this project. Caleb is not a crafty kid - - hates to draw and all that, but looking up animals, reading about them, figuring out where they should go on the map was something he really enjoyed.
Here is his finished project. He was very proud of it and excited to share it with dad this evening when he got home from work.
Let me point out the little Island of Madagascar on the right. Caleb insisted we find an animal that came from there. He loves Disney's Madagascar movie, so we found a Lemur from there...
One animal that we did not put on his map was the ugly "Naked Mole Rat." When I say ugly, I mean ugly! Eww....
Together we've decided that letter "Z" was a lot of fun!
Til next time,
Pam
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