Author: Tia Kennard
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Games – What Animal Am I?
Charades-style game to help youth learn how animals use sounds and movements to communicate needs and feelings.
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Animal Care Sounds of Nature Walk
A nature walk to help youth explore how animals communicate and connect it to how humans and animals both need care and communication.
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Animal Care Research
Use books, videos, and/or websites to teach youth a basic understanding of what animals need to stay healthy and how they react to people.
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Animal Care Field Trip
Visit a local place where animals receive care to learn how people help animals and how to share those ideas with others.
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Field Trip Finder: Veterinary Clinic
Information on how to find an appropriate location for a Veterinary Clinic visit or tour with a youth group.
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Field Trip Idea: Animal Shelter
Information on how to find an appropriate location for an Animal Shelter visit or tour with a youth group.
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Field Trip Finder: Farm
Information on how to find an appropriate location for a farm visit or tour with a youth group.
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3 Cheers Journey Activity Songs
Move with a song that has actions to explore how different creatures need food, exercise, and rest.
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Animal Flip Book Connections
Create a group flip book of unique animals by drawing sections that can be mixed and matched. (Optional) Discuss animal traits and human traits and how we all have things that help us live.
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Kinder Animal Care Scenarios
Explore simple animal‑care choices by looking at picture cards and deciding what to do in each situation.
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Pourquoi Tales Bring Care
Explore a “Pourquoi” story, learn what animals need to stay healthy, and play a movement game to act out those needs.
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How the Alphabet Was Made
The week after Taffy and her Daddy, Tegumai, made their picture-letter mistake, they went back to the river to fish. While Tegumai scratched marks on birch bark with a shark’s tooth, Taffy had a new idea. She wanted to make a “secret surprise” using noises.
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How the First Letter Was Written
Once upon a very early time, people lived in caves. There was a man named Tegumai. He was a man who never hurried. There was a woman named Teshumai. She was a lady who asked many questions. And there was a little girl named Taffy. She was a small person who sometimes forgot her manners.
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The Beginning of the Armadillos
Long ago there lived a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and a Slow-Solid Tortoise. They lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon river. There also lived a Painted Jaguar. He was young, beautiful, and very hungry.
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The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
Long ago, the Kangaroo was not as we see him now. He was a different animal with four short legs. He was grey, he was woolly, and he was very, very proud.
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The Elephant’s Child
In the High and Far-Off Times, the Elephant, had no trunk. He only had a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side. He couldn’t pick anything up with it.
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How the Leopard Got His Spots
In the days when the world was brand new, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. The Leopard was the sandiest-yellowest-brownest cat you ever did see. He matched the rocks and the grass so well that he could hide just by sitting still.
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Why the Rhino Wears Wrinkles
Once upon a time, on a lonely island, there lived a baker who wore a very shiny hat. One day, he made a giant, wonderful cake… But just as he was about to take a bite, a Rhinoceros with very bad manners came out of the jungle.
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How the Camel Got His Hump
A long time ago, when the world was brand new, the animals were just starting to work with the people. But there was one Camel who was very lazy.
