Goodnight Gorilla Themed Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Zoos are one of our favorite themes here on Virtual Book Club for Kids. We love the range of animals that you can explore with your children and with just a few little extras you can set up a week of zoo activities easily with no problems.

This year our featured book for the theme is Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann a classic story and one that your children will enjoy reading at bedtime or during the day.

Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann

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Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann is a classic story in which the zookeeper goes around the zoo saying Good Night to the various animals that it finds and the funny Gorilla gets up to a little bit of mischief behind his back. We love this fun tale and can’t believe we haven’t featured it here before!

Zoo Themed Activities for Preschoolers

Head over to Rainy Day Mum to discover this fun DIY Feed the Lion Game – easy to make and then you can use it to count, add, post letters in and much more check out the extension activities at the end of the instructions.

Over on Toddler Approved this week you will find 2 Zoo Activities for kids – ice age excavation of the animals and a fantastic fun Zoo Themed Tic Tac Toe Game perfect for playing this popular game on a GIANT scale.

You’ll discover on The Educators’ Spin On It a fun hands on zoo animal counting activity for your preschooler. Create your very own zoo!

Zoo Themed Songs for Preschoolers

Let’s Go To The Zoo | Super Simple Songs

We’re Going to the Zoo | Little Action Kids

Peek-a-Zoo | Pinkfong

Plus you can take your child on a virtual field trip to the zoo to explore zoo animals and learn facts.

Zoo Themed Activities from the Virtual Book Club for Kids Team

Find more inspiration for Zoo themed activities from the team behind the Virtual Book Club for Kids.

• Zoo Animal Counting Activity by The Educators’ Spin On It
• Teaching Toddlers 1 to 1 Correspondance Counting with Goodnight Gorilla by My Storytime Corner
• Animal Boogie Gross Motor Game by Rainy Day Mum
• Zoo Animal Salt Painting for Kids by Toddler Approved
• Zoo Yoga by The Educators’ Spin On It
• Paper Plate Monkey by Rainy Day Mum
• Zoo Activities for Kids: Hold an Animal Fashion Show by Mama Smiles
• 5 Little Monkey Craft Puppets to Make and Use with your Toddlers and Preschoolers
• Elephant Hand Print Craft by Rainy Day Mum
• Paper Bag Animals for the Zoo by Toddler Approved
• Torn Paper Plate Lion Craft by Rainy Day Mum

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Zoo Themed Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Each week we like to suggest further books that you and your toddlers and preschoolers may want to discover. You can find them at your library or you could purchase them for your own book shelf.

• Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? by Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle
• ABC Animal Jamboree by Giles Andreae
• View at the Zoo by Kathleen Long Bostrom