- Sound charades. What sounds do these animals make? (chicken, lion, horse, cow, frog, etc.)
- Pick a category (like animals or food), start with A, naming an animal with each letter of the alphabet and see how far you can get!
- Make a food chain. What animals are typically eaten? What things does it eat? Your chain could look like: Man, cow, grass, etc.
- Play “what’s missing” with some animal toys (http://www.pbs.org/parents/earlymath/act_i_missing.html)… and maybe collect a bunch of your animal toys, count them, take one away and demonstrate basic subtraction.
- Play “I Spy” with one of the works of Charles Harper.
- Cut a bunch of triangles, squares and circles in a variety of colors and sizes. Try to arrange them into the shape of an animal.
- Work on vocabulary, gross motor skills and following directions with animal motions: slither like a snake, stomp like an elephant, wriggle like an octopus, flap like a bird, waddle like a penguin, slink like a cat, etc.
- Create your own animal. Draw or cut and paste an animal using a compilation of parts. Based on his features where would this animal live? What would it eat? etc
- Go to the zoo (or make your own pretend zoo with the animals in your toy box).
- Go for a walk in a nature area and look for evidence of animals (tracks, scat, burrows, nests, chewed trees, feathers etc)
- Study one feature of various animals (coloring, feet, noses etc) to see how different features are help an animal survive/eat/move. Example: compare an anteaters nose to an elephant’s trunk and a dog’s nose.
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