1 Resource 1: Rhino Template 2 Resource 2: How to draw a rhino 1. Start by drawing the 2. The draw the main head shape. Use a pencil, body shape. so you can rub out the lines later. 3. Then add legs and a 4. Add the front legs. back end. 5. Using a marker pen, 6. Draw a tail, eyes, trace the outlines of mouth, another ear, toes your rhino and add ears. and some skin folds, Then rub out the pencil don’t forget the horns. lines 3 Resource 3: Rhino plate /mask guide If you cut out holes instead of using the template eyes, you can convert your rhino craft to a rhino mask. Attach a paint stir stick or tongue depressor to allow your child to hold it up to their face. Materials: paper plate, grey paint and paint brush something to color with (or color printer), scissors, glue, Paper, Printer. OPTIONAL: You can substitute large wiggly eyes for the template eyes. OPTIONAL FOR MASK: Paint Stir Stick , thin strip of wood or Tongue Depressor . Instructions: Paint the bottom of the paper plate grey (if it isn't already). Print out the template of choice. Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces. Most of the pieces are simple enough shapes for young children to cut out, but if needed, an adult can help with some of the harder pieces (the ears and the hair). Glue the pieces to the plate to make a rhino face: Glue the ears onto either side of the plate. Glue the hair onto the center top of the plate. Glue the mouth at the bottom of the paper plate. Glue the the nose above the mouth. Glue the eyes above the nose. Glue the eyebrows above the eyes. OPTIONAL: If making a mask, use masking tape or duct tape to attach a thin strip of wood, a Tongue Depressor or a Paint Stir Stick http://www.dltk-kids.com/p.asp?b=m&p=http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/pplate-rhino.asp 4 Resource 3a: Mask template 5 Resource 4: how to make a Fimo rhino 6 Resource 5 : Rhino Card Template 7 Resource 6: Origami rhino http://easy-origami-instructions.jetiss.net/origami-rhinoceros/ Resource 7: Rupert the Rhino 8 The extraordinary story of Rupert the rhino By SAM GREENHILL Last updated at 09:33 18 November 2006 As pets go, Rupert the rhino fulfilled everything expected of him. Faithful, friendly and a fearsome 'guard dog', like so many beloved household creatures he simply became one of the family. Now, more than 40 years on, the Mail has tracked down the boy - and unearthed a fascinating in- sight into the hilarious trials and tribulations of keeping a mighty rhinoceros as a family pet. Mike Condy, now 53 and a financial services adviser living in Johannesburg, South Africa, well re- members having his picture taken with Rupert, and the day the rhino came to stay at their home in the Rhodesian bush. Rupert was just a few weeks old when the Zambezi valley was flooded to make the Kariba Dam in Rhodesia. Along with many other beasts who would have drowned, he was rescued by a team of animal lovers including Mike's father Dr John Condy, a local vet. They made a 'Noah's Ark' raft from oil drums and tree trunks to float stranded animals to safety, but Rupert's mother - rhinos cannot swim - was too heavy, slipped off and drowned. 'Rupey' became an orphan - and so Dr Condy took him home for adoption. Yesterday Mike Condy said: "It was amazing. Dad brought home a pet rhino. I was only about eight years old at the time. I'll never forget it." The Condy family - Mike, his parents John and Joan, his two sisters and a brother - lived side by side with another British family, the Fords. Boyhood friend Simon Ford, now 49, recalled yesterday: "We were like one big family. The Condys and us reared Rupey with milk formulated by a vet from a sample of the mother's milk. "We had the most obscure, surreal childhood, with animals everywhere. "Rupey was our mode of transport. We used to ride around on him. He was safe enough, apart from at 5pm when it was his 'playtime'. You climbed a tree then, and the dogs scattered, and Rupey would put his nose down and charge around. "One day, my sister was riding a bike and he went charging after her - my mum had a freak-out. But he did a beautiful side-step, came up to her and just nuzzled her. He thought he was one of the dogs.' Mr Ford added: "Our dog used to go into my bedroom and lie on the bed. One day, Rupey did too. It was one of those metal hospital beds, but it was a bed no more after that." He said one weekend his businessman father Eric had some clients from Britain to visit. He said: "All us kids had been told to behave and keep out of the way. When they arrived I had never seen such a smart car. The dogs went flying off down the drive to greet it - and so did Rupey. The car stopped abruptly, turned around and took off. When my dad went to the office on Monday morning they said his visitors had fled because of a 'wild animal' roaming loose in his garden. But Rupey was just being friendly like the dogs." Mr Ford, who now lives in Surrey with his English wife, said: "Visitors often hid behind the curtains. Rupey liked the living room and often the only way to get him out was by tempting him with bana- nas. Once, he decided to exit through the kitchen door - and took the door frame with him." Though partial to the living room, Rupey was made to sleep out on the veranda, but the two families found it impossible to fully 'domesticate' their oversized pet. Mr Ford said: "There was a time when he went to the loo inside the house. We all thought it was a hoot until Joan made us help clear it up. "With our fathers away working a lot, Joan and my mum had six kids and all the animals to wash and feed. It wasn't just Rupey, we had pet snakes, an ant eater and lots of guinea fowl." After a year, Rupey had grown too big, and he was released back into the bush. Sadly, after 18 months of roaming free he succumbed to pneumonia and died. But Mr Condy said: "I'll never forget those days. It was unique. Rupey was one in a million." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-417111/The-extraordinary-story-Rupert-rhino.html#ixzz2XsrY9RLW Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook 9 Resource 8: Savannah template 10 Resource 9: Rhino ID wheel instructions 1. Colour in and name the type of rhinos. 2. Cut a pie piece shape out of one plate. 3. Place rhino sheet between the two plates and fasten. 11 Resource 9a: Rhino ID wheel template 1 12 Resource 9b: Rhino ID wheel template 2 13 Resource 10: Rhino Song Start with Chorus (hand actions are in red and they are optional) Rhino, everybody knows. You’ve got one tail, four feet, twelve toes. Swish tail, Stamp feet x2, wiggle fingers Mr Rhino, look what grows to big horns on the end of your nose. Look, hold up 2 fingers, point to nose Now you’ve got three friends, link arms with person next to you Mr Rhinoceros, Elephant, buffalo and hippopotamus. Swing arm like trunk, hold hands as horns, wiggle bottom You’ve got two bad eyes, but you’re not deaf. Hands over eyes, hands to ears And in Africa and Asia there’s not many of you left Chorus Five, six, seven makes a herd, count using fingers, 5,6,7 And on your back rides a white tick bird, using hands make bird action Eight, nine, ten you weigh a ton, count using fingers , 8,9,10 But your as fast as a zebra when you’re on the run. Run on the spot Chorus Brambles and nettles you love to crunch, With your many many teeth you munch and munch, Use mouth to make munching action You’re the one and only, but sure as you’re born, Hold one finger up Bigger and better than a unicorn Chorus See you tube for tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOvIot-i6rY big green company.com 14 Resource 11: Hippo song The Hippopotamus Song A bold hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar He gazed at the bottom as he peacefully lay By the light of the evening star Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair hippopotami maid The hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade Chorus: Mud, mud, glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood So follow me follow, down to the hollow And there let me wallow in glorious mud The fair hippopotama he aimed to entice From her seat on that hilltop above As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice Came tiptoeing down to her love Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound Of the song that they sang when they met His inamorata adjusted her garter And lifted her voice in duet Now more hippopotami began to convene On the banks of that river so wide I wonder now what am I to say of the scene That ensued by the Shalimar side They dived all at once with an ear-splitting sposh Then rose to the surface again A regular army of hippopotami All singing this haunting refrain Chorus (Extra verse:) The amorous hippopotamus whose love song we know Is now married and father of ten, He murmurs, "God rot 'em!" as he watches them grow, And he longs to be single again! He'll gambol no more on the banks of the Nile, Which Naser is flooding next spring, With hippopotamas in silken pyjamas No more will he teach them to sing..