Jungle Book movie night

With the new live action Jungle Book movie coming out, I figure it’s high time I shared our book and a movie night on the Jungle Book.  This was one of my favorite books in elementary school, I know I checked it out from my school library 3 months straight in 4th grade.  I also obsessively watched the Disney cartoon as a kid.  So I have been looking forward to the Jungle Book book and a movie night for quite a while.

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Jungle Book synopsis

A young boy is stranded in the jungles of India and is raised by wolves.  Several years later they learn Sher Kahn, the evil tiger, has returned to their area and is going to hunt the boy.  It is decided he must return to the man village.

Okay, in reality the Jungle Book* is a series of short stories that has an overarching narrative, but is not one solid story.  Between each short story is a poem of some sort.  As a kid I had a very random collection of Rudyard Kipling books.

Jungle Book discussion Questions

1. Why do the wolves not want to raise Mowgli?
2. What stories made their way into the movie?
3. How is the Disney movie different from the book?
4. What non-jungle story is your favorite?
5. How would you describe the character of the main protagonist animals, Baloo and Bagheera?
6. (for older kids) How are the values of Kipling’s time different from the values of our time?

Jungle Book snacks

I had a lot of fun making snacks this time, my lack of skill as a snack maker shows in the clumsiness of our snacks, but that doesn’t stop the snacks from being a huge hit with the kids as we watched the Jungle Book movie*.

• leaves and berries- specialty cookies from our local grocery store
• circus animal cookies*- for all of the jungle animals (I like the ridiculously bad for you frosted cookies)
• wolves- peanut butter sandwiches made to look like faces, they only vaguely resemble wolves if you scrunch up your eyes just right and maybe stand on your head
• tiger tails- pretzel rods dipped in candy melts and with melted chocolate dribbled on it
• snake- banana and strawberries sliced up and put around the plate in a snake like shape

Jungle Book activities

We did this before I outlawed creating worlds in Minecraft, so I have one child who made a world in Minecraft, picture obviously up above.

Princess chose to make a Jungle Book memory bag, which I have a video of, but it’s not very clear exactly what she’s saying, and the video is quite honestly horrible, it’s hard to hear what she’s saying, so I won’t subject you to it.

Batman did a report on snakes and how a snake like Kaa would get its food.  I had to laugh because I caught him flat out making up facts, but he did a good job attempting to bluff his way through not knowing the correct answer.  It reminded me of my brother who did a report on the Tasmanian devil and got all of his information from Warner Brothers cartoons.

Want some more book activity ideas? Check out my book and activity Pinterest board.