Introducing Wild Animals to Toddlers

VIto is 32 months old.

As we continue our wild animals exploration, the boys and I watched documentary shows in Netflix about animals in Africa.  Vito enjoyed watching the shows and kept on naming the animals that he can identify.  With this, we worked on vocabulary words by identifying other wild animals that he’s not familiar with like gorilla, panther and rhinoceros.  We used our Safari Toob Wild animals for this activity together with the matching cards we got from The Wise Owl.

Vito have seen some of these animals in our recent trip to the US, thus he can name a few.  But there were certain animals like zebra, gorilla, camel and rhino which he hasn’t seen yet therefore can’t recognize them.  So I say yes, these animal figures helped in exploring wild animals that he’s not yet aware of and has only seen on TV.

The next day I asked Mavi to set up a small world play for his brother. Mavi put on some kinetic sand on a tray and added some Playmobil landscapes. 

Mavi later on joined Vito in playing and with the animal figures. They made up animal sounds and stories. Animal figures are just one of the toys that we love in this house.  We use it so many ways and it is mostly used as a tool for imaginative play.

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