Monkey Mask

• Draw a simple monkey face onto a thick piece of paper, using a large circle for the face and smaller circles for the eyes and ears. Color the face, and cut out around the monkey head and eyes. Provide help if a child is doing the cutting. Attach elastic string to either side of the mask, or glue a craft stick onto the bottom for easy wearing. For added durability, glue the paper mask onto a piece of thin cardboard from a cereal box before cutting.
  
  

Jungle Trees

• Get an old newspaper. Have your child use markers or watercolors to color one sheet brown and two sheets green. Stack the sheets together, with the brown sheet on the outside, and roll the sheets up, overlapping the pieces as you roll. Tape the bottom (the brown side) together so the roll doesn't come undone. Cut five or six slits at least one-third of the way down from the top of the roll. Carefully pull up on the inside "leaves" and the green shows, giving you a paper tree. You could use large pieces of colored construction paper instead of coloring newspapers.
  
  

Tropical Birds

• Take a paper plate and paint the back any bright color you choose. Let it dry. Cut feather shapes from different colors of construction paper or use real feathers if you have them. Cut a small circle from black construction paper to be the bird's eye and a yellow or orange triangle to be the beak. Fold the paper plate in half and staple closed with the colored side on the outside. Stick the triangle beak into the fold of the plate on one edge and staple. Glue the eye into place. Glue the feather shapes in the center of the plate as a wing. Cut some strips about 1 inch to 2 inches wide of bright tissue paper. Stick them in the fold at the other end of the plate and staple in place to form a tail.
  
  

Animal Cracker Artwork

• For this craft you will need animal crackers, light blue construction paper, all-purpose glue and crayons. Take a sheet of the construction paper and have your child create a scene for the animal crackers to a part of: a wilderness scene, safari scene, jungle scene, etc. Once the pictures is done, glue the animal crackers to the construction paper and let dry.