Your little ones can learn about where different animals live with this animal sorting game! Pick a habitat and corresponding animal checklist and try to find all the animals that live there!
HOW TO PLAY:
- Each player takes a habitat board and corresponding animal checklist. Place the animal cards face down in the middle.
- Children take turns to turn over an animal card. If it matches an animal on their checklist they place it on their habitat board.
- If it doesn’t match, they place it face down in the middle. Play then passes to the next player.
- The first player to find all the animals for their habitat wins. Play continues until all the players have found their animals!
This simple game is easily portable and space-saving; ideal for 2 - 4 players and suitable for 3 - 7 year olds. It can also be used as a science center prop or as a simple sorting mat activity.
Includes files in both A4 and letter size paper. The game is also available in Spanish (see end of post).
- Encourages observational and matching skills
- Develops visual memory skills
- Develops knowledge and understanding of the natural world
- 4 habitat boards: Sea, Jungle, Farm and Home
- 4 EDITABLE animal checklists with words and pictures.
- 24 animal cards (cat, cow, crocodile, dog, dolphin, duck, elephant, goldfish, hamster, horse, jellyfish, monkey, parrot, pig, rabbit, ray, tiger, tortoise, sea star, sheep, shark, snake, tortoise and whale)
- Full instructions on how to print and play.
Includes two wild animal habitats and two domestic animal habitats.
The animal checklists are FULLY EDITABLE, so you can customize the words as you wish, depending on the vocabulary you are teaching (e.g. turtle instead of tortoise).
The game includes 24 common animals - 6 per habitat.
The colourful boards and pieces also double as a kind of puzzle, so children must try and put the animals in the correct places on the boards as they find them.
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