🔬 Science & our world · Ages 2–3 · about 2 weeks

Animal Friends

Goal: Name common animals, copy their sounds and movements, and say where some of them live.

For parents: Animals are the most motivating topic there is for toddlers. Use it for talking: every new animal is a new word.

Do together

  1. Who says that?

    You need: Nothing, or animal toys or pictures

    Make an animal sound and let your child guess the animal. Then let them make the sound and you guess.

  2. Animal walks

    You need: Some space

    Hop like a frog, waddle like a duck, stomp like an elephant, slither like a snake. Call out an animal and both do its walk.

  3. Animal picture book

    You need: A picture book, or old magazines, glue and paper

    Name every animal on the page. Or cut animals out of a magazine and make a book together: one animal per page, with its name written underneath.

Talk about it

  • Which animal is the biggest? The smallest?
  • Where does a fish live? A bird?
  • Which animals have we seen outside our house?

Words to use

  • cat
  • dog
  • cow
  • hen
  • duck
  • fish
  • bird
  • elephant

Play

  • Living World
    Living things
  • Memory Match
    Memory
  • What's Missing?
    Remembering what you saw
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