Idea 2: Pets and other animals
Family pets come in all shapes and sizes, ‘cute and fluffy’, ‘small and squeaky’ or ‘scaly and wet’, and they all need looking after in different ways.
Helping to look after an animal can help your child develop a sense of responsibility and learn more about other living things. Using the matching pairs template PDF (below) see if they can match up the pet to their proper home.
Your lovable family pet and their cages and bedding can carry bacteria – so remember to wash your hands!
Matching Pairs
Print off the colour pictures, cut along the dotted lines, then mix them up and place face down, see if you your child can match the pets with their homes.
Don’t have a real pet to take care of? Then why not pretend! Your child will have great fun pretending to be a vet. Go through the toy box use cuddly toys as the patients and nurses or doctors dressing up kits for aprons, stethoscopes and pretend medicine bottles.
Remember – wash your hands AFTER each patient!
Invite your children’s friends over for a pretend Pet Show – using cuddly toys of course. Talk to your child about all the different categories you could have a prize for: spottiest dog, fluffiest bunny etc.
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