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Born to Be Wild Tiger Activities

The following activities are intended as informal alternatives or creative supplements to the lessons

in the Born to Be Wild Teaching Guide. Younger students in particular may find these artistic

Find tiger photos,

illustrations & designs

activities helpful as an accessible introduction to the topic of tigers. Educators may choose to send

for these activities at:

students home with the activities to work on with their families.

Activity One:

Wild Tiger Bookmark

What You Need

Activity Steps

For this activity, students read books and

• Paper

create illustrated bookmarks as records of

Give students a sheet of paper each and

• Safety scissors

the most interesting things they learn about

have them cut the paper roughly into fourths,

• Colored pens or pencils

tigers. By personalizing their bookmarks with

parallel to the paper’s shorter sides. (They

• Other photos and illustrations for

may fold the paper in half, then in half again to

art, students connect to information and

decorating bookmarks

make cutting lines.)

remember facts. You may

• Books about tigers (select in advance

2) Have each student use the strips to make one

choose to have students answer

or have children make a library trip),

or more bookmarks. Tell students to write “My

a targeted question, such

such as:

Tiger Bookmark” with their names at the top

as “What fact did you find

For Younger Readers

of one side of the bookmark.

• A Tiger Grows Up by Anastasia Suen

most interesting about tigers’

3) Encourage students to read books about

(Coughlan Publishing, 2007)

tigers and to write on their bookmarks a fun

bodies?” or “What was one

• Tiger Cub by Monica Hughes (Bearport

or important fact. Have them record the book

threat to wild tigers that you

Publishing Company, 2006)

title and page number where they read the

learned about from your

fact.

• Tigers by Rachael Hanel (Creative

reading?” Alternatively,

Education, 2008)

4) Have students turn the bookmark over and

you may choose to leave

• Tigers by Susan Schafer with Fay

draw a picture of a tiger or a representation of

Robinson (Marshall Cavendish

the fact they learned.

it completely up to the

Benchmark, 2010)

5) (optional) As a variation, students could write

students to choose the

For Advanced Readers

multiple facts on one bookmark.

facts that they find most

• Tiger Rescue: Changing the Future for

6) Encourage students to share their bookmarks

interesting.

Endangered Wildlife by Dan Bartolotti

with you or with a peer to say why they chose

(Firefly Books, Ltd., 2003)

the facts and images they did.

Activity Two:

Wild Tiger Mask

In this activity, students create tiger masks,

What You Need

Activity Steps

with the option of extending this activity

through role-play. Encourage students to study

• Paper plates

Distribute paper plates to students. Encourage

them to decorate these to look like tiger faces,

photographs and text describing how a tiger

• Safety scissors

based on what they have learned from reading

• Colored pens or pencils

looks before making their masks. If you choose

about tigers. Help them cut eye holes.

to add the role-play, consider asking students to

• A one-hole punch

2) Help students use scissors or a hole punch to

depict a wild tiger’s special hunting

• Yarn (or ribbon or twine)

make holes at either side of the tiger face.

abilities, the variation across

• Glue

3) Tie the yarn to one side of the mask and wrap

subspecies, or problems

• Orange and black construction

the yarn around the back of the student’s head

paper or fabric scraps

that wild tigers face. The

before tying it off at the other side of the mask.

• Pipe cleaners or brushes from

activity allows students

4) (optional) Encourage students to role-play

old (cleaned) paintbrushes—for

opportunities for creative

something they learned about tigers—for

whiskers

expression in response to their

example, they might act as wild tigers and talk

• Other materials for decorating tiger

learning.

about the problems they face finding food.

masks

Activity Three:

Wild Tiger Cube

What You Need

Activity Steps

In this activity, students create multimedia

• Copy of Wild Tiger Cube template

1) Make photocopies of the cube template on the

cubes with written facts, drawn pictures,

reverse side of this flyer, and distribute these

• Safety scissors

to students.

photograph clippings, and other decorations.

• Colored pens or pencils

2) Before cutting and folding the cubes, ask

Once they have finished, you may choose

• Tape or glue

students to write about tigers or draw or

to extend the activity by having them take

• TIger photos and illustrations from

paste photographs of tigers in each square.

turns rolling their cubes and telling you (or

magazines and other web sites, such

Encourage them to include facts and images

a partner) more about the side that lands

as .

about wild tigers that they found important.

face up. This activity again allows students

3) Help students cut out, fold, and paste or tape

together their cubes.

to personalize their responses to learning

4) (optional) Ask students to roll the cube and tell

through creative expression in various forms.

about the fact or image on the side that lands

face up.

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