Hold a family brainstorming meeting. Ask
your kids for some other ideas. At the launch of this
website, eighty-five percent of the animal related ideas on
itscool2care.org originated in
brainstorming
sessions
with kids 15 and under! Please email us
your ideas to be shared with other families.
Animal Related Project
Ideas
- Make homemade toys for
your pet(s) or your friend’s pet(s)
- Make a book of pet
stories- survey your friends and family for stories about their pets.
- Make an animal diary. Pretend you are an animal, describe what you
look like and what happens during your day.
- Make a poster with
pictures and descriptions of how humans and pets are alike.
- Write a report on how
animals help us. Which jobs seem most fun
for the animals? Which ones don’t seem
fair to the animals? How could those jobs
be done by someone or something else?
- Make a t-shirt design
that spreads the message to Adopt, not buy pets.
- Draw pictures of the
Friends 4 Life animals that are looking for families. Email to
itscool2care@yahoo.com
- Make a picture book
illustrating one of the Friends 4 Life animal’s stories. Email to
itscool2care@yahoo.com
- Draw a design for a
t-shirt that promotes one of the Friends 4 Life animal stories. Email to
itscool2care@yahoo.com
- Make some puppets and
put on a show for the class to tell some of the Friends 4 Life animal’s
stories, be sure and write the ending you want them to have- going home
with a loving family.
- Make 10 thank you cards
for families that Adopt Friends 4 Life animals. Email
itscool2care@yahoo.com and we will coordinate getting them to the
wonderful adopters!
- Make homemade dog
biscuits.
- Keep a journal of how
your pet responds when you do different activities with him/her. Keep track of the time you spend with them
each day for a week. How do you feel when
you spend more time playing with him/her. How
can you tell that the pet is happier when you spend more time with
him/her?
- Keep track of all the
dogs and cats you see walking around with no owners.
Make a graph. Chart the number of dogs and cats for
each day for a week. Multiply the total
number of dogs by 16 and the number of cats by 15.
Draw how many more stray dogs and cats could be born
in one year if these stay on the streets and have babies.
- Make a list of animal
names for Friends 4 Life animals that will be looking for homes. Try to make them as fun and as unusual as
possible, that helps future families to pay attention to each animal’s
unique story. Email to
itscool2care@yahoo.com
- Make art, clothing, or
jewelry to sell at a kids care art fair and share your profit with
Friends 4 Life. Email to
itscool2care@yahoo.com or visit Kids
Care Art Fair info
List of Sample Journal
Topics
- Pretend
that you are an animal- what would be your favorite activity and why.
- Choose
an
animal/species what makes us most like that kind of animal?
- What
have
you done to make an animal happy, how did it make you feel?
- What
could you do to make an animal healthier and happier?
Books that focus on
humane
education and compassion
- The
Great
Kapok Tree, Lynn Cherry
- Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
- Oh the
Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
- Horton
Hears a Who, Dr. Seuss
- The
Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister
- Tails
are
Not for Pulling, Elizabeth Verdick
- Brown
Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? Eric
Carle
- The
Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
- Click
Clack Moo, Cows that Type, Doreen Cronin
- What
do
you do with a Tail Like This? Seve Jenkins and Robin Page
- Gone
Wild, An Endangered Animal Alphabet, David McLimans
- So
What’s
it Like to be a Cat? Karla Kuskin
- Sitting
Ducks, Michael Bedard
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