Dear Zoo Book and Toy Gift Set: Lion

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Since he wrote Dear Zoo, he notes that many zoos are now conservation parks and play an important role in wildlife preservation. “The numbers have diminished so much in the wild. But at least we have small populations in zoo-like conditions so, at the very least, we can teach children about them.”

There are loads of fabulous Dear Zoo activities for kids in this post from You Clever Monkey including a lift the flap drawing prompt and animal weighing activityRegardless. Is it a bit hypocritical of me to be endorsing this book, based on my ethical beliefs that animals are not toys to be swapped, sold on, imprisoned or treated as inanimate objects, blah, blah, blah. Am I delivering a dark, subconscious message of irresponsibility to my child when I read her this? Adjectives which relate to each animal, e.g.'They sent me an elephant, but he was too big', They sent me a snake, but he was too scary'. Is it munch munch munch? Or you can search the internet together to find out. What words can they think of to describe each animal? First, decide on the pattern you’d like to make for your snake. We chose three colors, but you could choose however many you’d like! This is a great opportunity to practice making patterns.

Toddler Approved have a whole week of zoo learning activities, I think this animal salt painting might be my favourite as it looks so pretty! More Zoo Books I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet..." (That's a direct quote from the book) and then I'd pull out a different puppet from the box and bring it to life for a few seconds. It was fun to have the parents and talking kids chant the line over and over with me. And it was even more fun to see the children's excitement when a "live" animal came out of the box. Priceless. Make this cute giraffe finger puppet from I Heart Crafty Things or this paper bag giraffe inspired by Greedy Steve Read the book again but this time ask your child to place the right animal into their box and make it pop up as each animal appears in the book. This popular book is a wonderful way to develop your child’s vocabulary, play and attention and listening skills. As each animal is initially presented through a container, this allows your child to see a glimpse of the animal and to guess what it might be, keeping their attention throughout. With simple repetitive language used throughout this book, your child will have the chance to hear the vocabulary used again and again. Here are my top Dear Zoo activities you can do with your child to help develop their speech and language skills: Activities for younger children:As he hasn't ruled out one day becoming a zookeeper, Ben found the premise of this book intriguing; a kid writes a letter to the zoo and gets free stuff. Sounds great, right? After all, he's currently unemployed and can't very well buy his own things, let alone afford a pet. Also there's flaps and those always blow his mind.

Next, take a Nilla wafer and break it in half. Each half will become an ear. Put the ears on the side of the monkey’s head. You can now introduce other sub-categories of animals to your child (e.g. sea animals; farm animals; pets). Go through each sub-category one at a time, encouraging your child to think of animals in each sub-category. Another idea for younger children in to model the symbolic noise associated with each animal in the book. As you come across the animals in the book, you should make the associated noise. Place no pressure on your child to copy these noises, but praise him/her if he/she does. After reading the book you can engage in pretend play with your child acting out the animals’ noises and movements. This is a lovely way to develop their pretend play skills. Fantastic Fun and Learning has an edible small world zoo that might just be my favourite activity because marshmallows. We’ve always been a big fan of Tuff Spots and this would be great for that!These Dear Zoo story spoons from Crafts on Sea are super easy to make and perfect if you are working with a group