Animals File Folder Game

Animals

I simply took some scrap paper wrote 'Animals' on it and taped it on the folder. This is how I titled all of the folders.

Inside the folder on the left I wrote the different activities there are for the folder.
Example:

Matching
Categorizing
Reading
Spanish

I placed all the magnets in a zip up Ziploc bag and labeled it.

I only had double of one animal page for matching so not all of the animals have a match.

I bought a couple packs of foam stickers at Joanne's on sale last year and used a bunch of those.

Because of the variety of animals I had I had the idea to sort the animals by where they live: Land vs. Water, type: insect vs. animal, how they move: flying vs. walking. There are many other category's you could go into with this file folder but those are all I have now.

I did the divided multiple pieces of paper up into 9 sections and wrote the English and Spanish name for every animal magnet I have.

I also included some scene photos where the kids could place animals where they would live and just for fun.

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