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? You may wish to encourage children to use different materials to make their colouring experience even more engaging! They could try using dabber pens or even coloured pom pom balls to colour the image and reveal the scene. Give it a try! Once they're complete, they're ready to hang on the fridge for passers by to go 'ooh and ahh'.

Colouring is a bit like magic. It has the uncanny ability to keep children quiet, spark their imaginations, and improve their focus and concentration.For more activities on leaves, take a look at this British Trees Identification Photo Sheet. Children can compare the photos to the Jungle Leaf Templates. This activity sheet is perfect for using on nature walks as a way of getting children used to paying attention to their environment and understanding what they see. Hand eye coordination - colouring is the perfect way to improve hand eye coordination skills by colouring certain sections without going over the lines.

Get colourful with your class using this rainforest leaves colouring resource. Everybody enjoys colouring, so use this activity to get the creative juices flowing! That depends on where in the world the jungle is! In South America you can find rubbers trees, balsa trees, aҫaí palms and many trees belonging to the Brazil nut and nutmeg families.

Explore our most popular collections

When children colour in, they will be strengthening their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. The set includes six jungle leaf templates each showing a very different kind of leaf in full colour. 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. 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.

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. Personalise your child's colouring time with our collection of name mindfulness colouring sheets like this Aria Mindfulness Name Colouring Activity, or our Hudson Mindfulness Name Colouring Activity. Fun facts about the jungle for kids 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!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. 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. This rainforest information PowerPoint is a fun way to introduce your class to the topic. Ideal for KS1! You might like to include them in your lessons or class display on the work of French artist Henri Rousseau. Teach more using our Jungle Leaf Templates with these resources