Be sure to have this ready to check everyone’s guesses. Whoever has the most correct matches wins a prize Here’s the answer key. Let's start the game! Click "Next" below to begin the game. While you are opening gifts, go over the answers aloud. Choose the animal that you think is the parent of the baby animal(s).Ĥ. Look at the picture of the baby animal(s).ģ. Learn to play in less than five minutes Develops critical skills this game helps preschoolers practice their focus, memory, and matching skills. Clear instructions Easy to learn with a clear instruction manual. Have fur, drink milk from their mom, are warm-blooded, are born aliveĢ. What you get Baby Animals Matching Game comes with 72 tiles and instructions. Have feathers and wings, are warm-blooded, hatch from eggs, most birds can fly (but not all) Start life in water with gills and tails, grow lungs and legs for life on land as adults, are cold-blooded, hatch from eggs Live on land, have scales and lungs, some hatch from eggs, some are born alive, are cold-blooded Live in water, have scales and gills, swim to move around, are cold-blooded, hatch from eggs Knowing this information may give you clues that help you match the baby animal to its parent. Check it out on Amazon here! Teachers and parents alike are raving about how much they like the over 170 simple educational activities included in this book.Can you match each of the baby animals in this game to its parent? Some baby animals look very similar to their parents and some look nothing like them at all.īelow you'll find a list of the main types of animals found in nature. Need more simple learning activities for preschool?Ĭheck out Everyday Preschool. Here are the free printable farm cards one more time –> download here. If you are visiting with a child who is doing this and want to narrate try phrases such as ” When you were a baby were you very little?” If there is no response maybe try something like” That chick is much smaller than the chicken.” I tend to open with things like this and then just follow where the conversation leads after that.įor older children, you can put more cards out to match up.
If they get it wrong, they must turn the cards back over and. They’ll have to match the animals together. Then you can lay them all face down and get children to turn one card over at a time. All you have to do is print off the animal cards twice, laminate them and cut them out.
Pop the cards in one container and the animal figurines in the other and place a few cards on the tray as an invitation. This Australian animal matching game is so easy to use and play. I’ll be laminating mine at school tomorrow. If you have a straight cutter use it, if you plan to use this farm matching activity in a classroom I’d laminate the cards. You will need to print out the Farm Babies Matching Cards ( click here for the pdf), scissors, some farm babies figurines like these from Safari, a few containers and a tray. From basic phonemic awareness that a word like cow starts with c which makes a /k/ sound to supporting spelling for children who are on the cusp of independent writing. Print on card stock and laminate for longer use. These are also great for children to do a pairing activity match animals and their babies. The names of the animals are on the cards for a few reasons, it teaches children to associate print with spoken words when teachers point and use the words, but it also supports children at different levels of development. The children can learn about the different names for baby animals, and how they are nurtured by their mothers. The goal of an activity like this farm matching activity is not just to match up the animals, it is to look at how an animal grows and changes, using the figurines allow the children to manipulate and examine the animal more closely than simply using two photos, and children can compare which animals change a lot and those that look similar from the time they are babies. Baby Animal Match Game, INSTANT DOWNLOAD, Greenery Woodland Animals Baby Shower Baby Animal Names Quiz Card Activity DIY Printable File WG12 (3.4k) Sale Price 3.18 3.18 4.25 Original Price 4.25 (25 off) Add to.