Safari Through the Rainforest

I volunteered at Ethan's school today for a "cooking" project - really it was just getting the ingredients ready for a safari trail mix of cashews, chocolate chips, dried bananas, dates and coconut. The kids made a bag made from paperbags for their trail mix snack and they each had a safari hat and binoculars. They all looked so cute! After getting their snacks together, they prepared for a safari treck down the rainforest (hallways of the school) where they looked at all the different rainforest animal pictures posted on the wall. They each got a surprise of either a monkey, boa constrictor, frog, butterly, etc. After a long treck, they sat down for some snacks. They also performed a couple of songs about the rainforest and I learned about the 4 layers of the rainforest - forest floor, understory layer, canopy layer and emergent layer. What a fun day!