what a week! in the midst of the last days of school and mother’s day prep, we turned our classroom into a zoo (quite fitting, actually!).
children were invited to bring pretend animals from home. this was a favorite of the day. we did show and tell at the first circle time (instead of at the end of the day). we graphed each one on an all-school graph and made a masking tape cage for each type on the floor of the classroom.
this graph is incomplete…we had to move on to another piece of paper and the fish column went off the top!
we had blue water, blocks, and a few big rocks in the tub table. plastic animals were allowed to come swim all week.
i found cheap plastic animals that worked well for making cages so friends could take home their own part of the zoo.
there were some zoos without walls…
some with open gates…
and some had animals that were so wild, the cage bars couldn’t stay up.
newcreationpreschool.com 
I love the lolly pop stick cages! I’ve linked here from my latest post all about zoos, books and play:
http://www.playingbythebook.net/2010/05/30/going-to-the-zoo-zoo-zoo/
Totally adorable, what a blast!!
That is some crazy wild mad zebra! Better watch out for him!
Love the zoos–so simple, yet so creative, and I can just imagine how fun the children thought they were. Sometimes I think they like the simplest things the best.
Really good ideas. I’m planning to apply it on my science programme.