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This a Zoo model, which I have done for the annual exhibition at my daughter’ playschool. I have uploaded the video of how to make it. Check it out!!!

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Les figurines Papo et les différents environnements de qualité permettent aux enfants de s'imaginer des scènes de la vie avec leurs personnages préférés.

Having enjoyed the two Mari, let's further explore Italian Modernism with Munari. Bruno Munari, born in Milan in 1907, started his creative experiments as a young member of the Futurist movement, and kept that playful, irreverent avant-garde spirit alive throughout his long artistic career. This eclectic and inventive genius was one of the key Italian figures of the last century in the fields of art, visual communication, industrial design, graphic design, didactic, design theory, children’s books and more. In 1940 the birth of his son Alberto inspired Munari, who at the time was working as art director for a magazine, to create a series of innovative, open-ended children’s books and toys designed to develop creativity and imagination through play while tickling the funny bone. The following books are some of his early creations, from the historic series first published in 1945 and recently reprinted by Corraini in Italian and English versions. Munari loved working with new ideas, materials and technologies, and the unconventional layouts of these experimental books include different sizes of paper, holes and other devices. Toc Toc : Who is it? Open the Door In Toc Toc, pages open like doors and containers to reveal their surprising animal contents, while becoming smaller and smaller like paper matrioshkas. A Tale of Three Little Birds The birds Ciò, Cià and Cì tell the stories of how they ended up in a cage in three small separate booklets inserted within the large album. Complete with holes to add extra interest. Animals for sale The animal salesman offers the child his exotic beasts, represented on pages that become progressively shorter, but the child refuses because of their strange habits, and would much rather have roast turkey with a side of potatoes. Never content These animals, like most of us humans, are unsatisfied with their lives and dream of being somebody else. This ironic circular story uses the device of small camouflaged inserts that open to reveal the animal’s fantasies. Munari published over 40 books, many of which were addressed to young children. Check out Munari’s Zoo and Bruno Munari’s ABC, originally published in the sixties and reprinted in the US by Chronicle.

Having enjoyed the two Mari, let's further explore Italian Modernism with Munari. Bruno Munari, born in Milan in 1907, started his creative experiments as a young member of the Futurist movement, and kept that playful, irreverent avant-garde spirit alive throughout his long artistic career. This eclectic and inventive genius was one of the key Italian figures of the last century in the fields of art, visual communication, industrial design, graphic design, didactic, design theory, children’s books and more. In 1940 the birth of his son Alberto inspired Munari, who at the time was working as art director for a magazine, to create a series of innovative, open-ended children’s books and toys designed to develop creativity and imagination through play while tickling the funny bone. The following books are some of his early creations, from the historic series first published in 1945 and recently reprinted by Corraini in Italian and English versions. Munari loved working with new ideas, materials and technologies, and the unconventional layouts of these experimental books include different sizes of paper, holes and other devices. Toc Toc : Who is it? Open the Door In Toc Toc, pages open like doors and containers to reveal their surprising animal contents, while becoming smaller and smaller like paper matrioshkas. A Tale of Three Little Birds The birds Ciò, Cià and Cì tell the stories of how they ended up in a cage in three small separate booklets inserted within the large album. Complete with holes to add extra interest. Animals for sale The animal salesman offers the child his exotic beasts, represented on pages that become progressively shorter, but the child refuses because of their strange habits, and would much rather have roast turkey with a side of potatoes. Never content These animals, like most of us humans, are unsatisfied with their lives and dream of being somebody else. This ironic circular story uses the device of small camouflaged inserts that open to reveal the animal’s fantasies. Munari published over 40 books, many of which were addressed to young children. Check out Munari’s Zoo and Bruno Munari’s ABC, originally published in the sixties and reprinted in the US by Chronicle.

Oh, the many uses of cardboard! Thanks to online shopping, we often have several flattened boxes in our recycle bin. Sturdy corrugated cardboard it is one of my favorite materials! It can be turned into a box town , a lemonade stand sign, a candy ATM , or these colorful zoo animals that

The Columbus Zoo's Heart of Africa PGAV Destinations provided full architectural services – from concept design through construction administration – for Heart of Africa, a 43-acre expansion of the beloved Columbus Zoo. This massive undertaking combines a fully immersive and grand setting with up-close interactions to convey conservation stories to guests. Demonstrations and keeper chats

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I was tossing out the box from our new TV into the recycling, when this idea I’d seen years ago popped into my head. I grabbed the box back! “Fancy making a zoo?” I asked my daughter. Her eyes lit up. Never needs her arm twisted to do something creative, that one. We scooped up all the toy animals we could find around the house to see how many enclosures we'd need: 11 species (if we discounted the dinosaurs). Mmm, looking at the size of the box, the enclosures would have to be quite small and cramped. Never mind, it could be a retro, old-fashioned kind of zoo, where space and animal welfare weren't as high on the agenda as they are these days. We remembered we had this old Topsy and Tim book (1968!) and flicked through it for inspiration. Oh yes, this was perfect: a zoo where you could still ride on elephants ... ... and the zoo keeper didn't mind if you fed your sandwiches to the hippos. We got to work. We started by cutting strips of cardboard and taping them them down to make the enclosures. Then we coloured in the bottoms: green for grass, blue for water, brown for mud. “Should the hippo have more water or more land?” pondered my daughter. “Mmm, when we went to the zoo in Warsaw, they definitely had more water,” she decided. She did a brilliant job with the entrance and cleverly used a little flap that happened to be there as a moveable barrier for when the zoo was open ... ... and closed. The cut-off end of a foil box made the perfect ticket office and we agreed that ticket prices should be in pre-decimal money like Topsy and Tim would have used. She went off to ask daddy (!) how much he thought it cost to go to the zoo 'in the old days'. She also found this little stretchy man who was just the right size to make a very enthusiastic ticket seller. Signs were added so that visitors could decide whether to take the path to the left ... ... or the right first. A camembert box doubled as the sea lion’s pool and rocks were grabbed from the garden for him to sit on ... ... as well as for the crocodiles. “Ooh, look at that stone,” she said, pointing to the round, speckled one on the left. “That can be a crocodile egg.” Greenery was grabbed from the garden too. “We need bamboo for the panda," she said ... "... and trees for the giraffe to eat." A scrap of Indian fabric was put on the back of the elephant that was chosen to give the rides, and he was tied up with a pipe cleaner to stop him stampeding through the zoo. “Poor old elephant,” said my daughter. “He doesn’t like all those pesky kids riding on his back." This Playmobil pilot made a great zoo keeper. And a piece of red plasticine became a lump of meat for the lion’s feeding time. And now the zoo was ready for its first visitor. Shaking hands with a bear? All part of the entertainment at this zoo! Finally, later, when we were having our roast dinner, my daughter decided the bones from the chicken would be good for the tigers’ enclosure. “Oh, they’re a bit too big, actually,” she said as she put them in. “Oh well … previously eaten children!” she laughed. Click here to get fresh ideas delivered to you via Facebook! If you like this, you might like the cardboard marble run featured at the end of this post.

This page includes craft and project about zoo animals I've been looking around and found so many fun zoo animal crafts that I couldn't wait to share them with you! Students made this project It's bee

This DIY zoo project for toy trains provides hours of fun and learning, from crafting it to playing with it, for any train-loving child.