This document provides the directions and clues for a rainforest animal guessing game played by students. Each student provides 3 clues about a plant or animal and the other students try to guess what it is. Clues are given for toucans, macaws, Venus fly traps, boa constrictors, blue morpho butterflies, tarantulas, okapis, emperor tamarins, golden frogs, iguanas, lesser slow lorises, poison dart frogs, scorpions, giant anteaters, quetzals, margays, jaguars, leopards, zorros, gorillas, and Bengal tigers. The goal is to have fun learning about rainforest plants and animals through

1. Rainforest Life Guess-It
Game!
By: Mrs. Peirce’s Fourth Grade

2. Directions:
• Each student will read hints that will help
you guess their plant or animal.
• After the student is finished reading their
hints, raise your hand to guess.
• Once you are called on, share your
answer.
• The correct answer will be displayed.

3. Kylie Kazen
• It has a very colorful and strong beak.
• They are very noisy and they make all
kinds of sounds.
• They sleep at the bottom of a tight
hole in a tree.

4. TOUCAN

5. Jordan Arroyo
• They are intelligent, social birds that often
gather in flocks of 10 or 30 individuals
• They not only breed, but also share food
with their mates and enjoy mutual
grooming
• There are 17 species of them and several
are endangered

6. Macaw

7. Hannah Schultz
• It is a small plant.
• It looks like a rosette (little rose)
with 4-7 leaves, but it can have
more than 7 leaves.
• It can reach a maximum size of 3-
10 centimeters.

8. Venus Fly Trap

9. Luis Estrella
• It is a large reptile that has a long,
heavy body.
• It can grow up to 18.5 feet.
• It could weigh up to 27 kg (60
pounds).

10. Boa Constrictor

11. Keyonna Perreira
• It is one of the biggest butterflies
seen.
• Their wingspan measures 5/8
inch in width.
• The adults are often seen living in
shrubs.

12. Blue Morpho
Butterfly

13. Bryce Camara
• Insects are their main prey but they also eat
frogs, toads and mice.
• They’re burrowers and typically live on land.
• Females guard their eggs in a cocoon.
• Their large bodies can be 4.75 inches long.
• They can weigh as much as 3 ounces.
• They live 30 years in the wild.
• They don’t have good eye sight, even
though they have 8 eyes.

14. Tarantula

15. Summa Slater
• My animal has a red-brown colored coat of
fur with white stripes on the top of their
legs.
• They are very shy and secretive, so much
that they were not recognized as a
species until the 20th
century.
• They are most active during the day.
• They are herbivores.

16. Okapi

17. Kenneth Robitaille
• It is grey with black hands and feet and a
brown tail.
• It also has a white beard.
• It is most active during the day and rests
in the safety of the tree tops during the
night.
• It eats both plants and animals.

18. Emperor Tamarin

19. Sadie West
• Males stake out their territories on rocks
near a stream.
• They feed on a many different small
invertebrates in the forests near their
streams.
• Babies are left to fend for themselves.
Large numbers die before reaching
adulthood.

20. Golden Frog

21. Noah Pacheco
• They can weigh up to 20 pounds.
• They can be found in Brazil, Paraguay,
Mexico, the Caribbean islands and some
parts of the United States.
• Their color helps camouflage them when
hiding from larger predators.
• They have a third eye on their head,
which is used to control hormone
production.

22. Iguana

23. Michael Silvestro
• They are nocturnal predators and feed
mainly on insects.
• They are not very fast, but they are great
climbers and are able to hang from
branches by their feet alone.
• They are covered with short, thick woolly
fur.

24. Lesser Slow Loris

25. Heaven Jeffers
• They are bright colors like yellow, orange,
red, green and blue.
• They have enough poison in their skin to
kill 20,000 mice.
• They live for about ten years.

26. Poison Dart Frog

27. Elionei Mendes
• They have eight legs.
• They can quickly grab an insect with their
pincers and use their tail to sting their
prey.
• They use their poison to kill prey and to
defend themselves from predators.

28. Scorpion

29. Natalya Sloan
• It is seven feet long.
• It weighs 40 to 100 pounds.
• It eats ripe fruit.

30. Giant Anteater

31. Ethan Coutinho
• They are found mainly in the forests of
Central America.
• Its also the national bird of Guatemala and
they named their currency after the bird.
• It’s an endangered species.

32. Quetzal

33. Aubree Davis
• It can hang from a branch by one hind
foot.
• It is the only cat to possess the ability to
rotate its hind legs 180 degrees.
• In captivity they have lived up to 20 years.

34. Margay

35. Dominic Rego
• It is a carnivore.
• It’s jaws are very powerful.
• It can pull a 800 pound bull.
• This animal is an apex predator.

36. Jaguar

37. Arianna Teixeira
• It is a large, carnivorous cat of African
and Asian forests usually having a
tawny coat with black spots.
• It has short legs and a long body with
a large skull.
• They are carnivores eating monkeys,
hoofed animals like antelopes and
impala, reptiles and rodents.

38. Leopard

39. Dominick Sardinha
• It’s body can be 28 to 38 inches long, and it’s tail
10 to 14 inches long.
• It can weigh 20 to 22 pounds.
• It has small ears.
• It has sharp, curved claws on padded feet.
• It’s belly is reddish-brown and white.
• It has a pointed snout.
• They have a dark band that runs along their
back and tail.

40. Zorro

41. Derek Perry
• They live in Africa.
• They are related to chimpanzees and
humans.
• They are herbivores. They spend most
of their day looking for food and eating
bamboo. Adults can eat up to 30
kilograms of food each day.

42. Gorilla

43. Cedric Wongus
• They are a mascot for a professional
football team.
• Females give birth to litters of two to six
cubs, which they raise with little or no help
from the male.
• They are a mammal.
• They are a carnivore.
• Their lifespan in the wild is 8 to 10 years
• They are endangered.

44. Bengal Tiger

45. We hope you enjoyed our
presentation!