Once children have completed these lovely pictures, they can be used as posters or home decorations! You could also use these animal colouring pictures for kids to support your child’s learning on wild animals and the jungle habitat. Why not get children to annotate each picture with names and descriptions of the animals? Concentration - colouring provides an enjoyable activity that also improves a child’s concentration levels. This will translate into their other lessons too!

This resource would make for a wonderful mindfulness activity, as colouring in has been shown to help reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, all while helping children to concentrate at the same time! Twinkl Top Tip: Read our blog post on the Top 10 End-of-Term Relaxing Activities To Help Kids Wind Down for more calming and educational resources like this. More like our rainforest colouring sheet: You could also learn even more about the tropical habitat by using our What Plants Grow in the Rainforest Display Posters! What's more, once children have finished colouring in their pictures, they would make a lovely addition to a themed display area. Why not pair them with our lovely rainforest display banner?Pets Pictures to Colour - These adorable colouring pictures will introduce children to a range of popular pets including rabbits, dogs, and hamsters. There are also some exciting, uncommon pets like snakes, spiders, and turtles. Get colourful with your class using this rainforest leaves colouring resource. Everybody enjoys colouring, so use this activity to get the creative juices flowing! Hand eye coordination - colouring is the perfect way to improve hand eye coordination skills by colouring certain sections without going over the lines.

This rainforest information PowerPoint is a fun way to introduce your class to the topic. Ideal for KS1! If you’re looking for more leaf colouring resources, you could try our Fractions Halves and Quarters Leaves Colouring sheet, which combines maths and art. If your class need a bit more of a challenge, these Plants and Growth Themed Mindfulness Colouring Sheets are a fun step up! How can I use this rainforest leaves resource with my child? Do you have a budding artist in your home? Do your kids just love getting everything out of the craft box, creating a masterpiece and then leaving you to hoover up so much glitter you wonder how it all fits in that tiny bottle in the first place? Say no more. There should be some spectacular rainforest art on the way! Colouring heavily improves fine motor functions and vision in children. These are processes that are in continuous development in the early years, so colouring is a great way to help them develop.

Included in this resource are four different templates of rainforest leaves. All four templates include hand-drawn illustrations and provide plenty of spaces for your class to colour. The templates are easily customisable and allow your class to put their own creative spin on them. Fine motor skills - all the little muscles in the wrists, hands and fingers of a child are developed when colouring. It also helps a child learn the correct way of holding a pencil or pen. Simply take a look around these intriguing maze puzzles. Just try not to get lost or walk into a dead end on the way:

Featuring a variety of rainforest animals - such as snakes and leopards - for children to colour in, this resource is perfect to use to support your teaching on the rainforest and rainforest animals. You could even use this versatile resource to begin a class discussion at the beginning of teaching this topic - can children name any of the animals in the picture? What do they already know about the rainforest?

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Colouring is a bit like magic. It has the uncanny ability to keep children quiet, spark their imaginations, and improve their focus and concentration. Puzzles and mazes also help to improve memory cognition and visual-spatial reasoning, and can often be a relaxing mindfulness activity they can use to calm down if they're feeling a little red.