Skip to main content

Animal Habitats

With all the animals out from our animal bath we used the foam and the animals for some animal sorting.


One of the first things about an animal you learn is where it lives or its habitat.  It is important to know this because it explains what it eats and other characteristics of the animal.

I set the foam all around the split tray for easy sorting.

Dark green: Jungle or forest

Light green: meadow, grasslands, farm

Tan: desert

Brown: swamp

 Blue: ocean


The only thing I was missing was white, for ice, as was pointed out to me by Doll Dragon when she was looking for the home of the penguin.

There were some animals that could live in multiple habitats, for these animals The Dragons placed 1 in each area.


















Doll Dragon sorted the animals so fast Little Dragon didn't have much of a chance to sort, but he can get more practice later. 


He still learned by observing. :)

This was a quick activity that didn't take much time and soon all of the animals were sorted.


Labels:

Comments

  1. UnknownJuly 15, 2014 at 2:10 AM

    It looks like Doll Dragon enjoys sorting.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. UnknownJuly 15, 2014 at 4:54 PM

      She does! It is something she can do with her hands and see a change from start to finish. She always enjoys sorting activities and gets them done quickly :) Thank you Natasha Johnson for the comment!

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Painting With Squirt Guns

We did this as a Fathers Day project, but it fits in outside play perfectly.   I liked this for Fathers because it was an interactive activity for the kids to do with Jerry to celebrate him and the time they enjoy spending with him. I filled 1 gun with yellow paint and 2 guns with black paint.  The squirt guns we used were from the dollar store and had a decently big hole to pour the paint into.  Some squirt guns have itty bitty holes that make squirting paint into the gun very difficult. Taped off the canvas...and made the kids pose Then the guns were handed to the kids and dad.  Instructions were to shoot the canvas not each other. Very simple. Start squirting!   The squirting went on and on.  I refilled the guns a couple times so the activity could continue.     Jerry also took time with each Dragon to squirt with them.  With a Star Wars theme we were looking at having black as the primary color and yellow as the secondar
132 comments
Read more

Elephant Faces

Elephant Faces (masks) We used:  Three paper plates Paint or markers Paint brushes Stapler Scissors Yarn First paint the bottom of the paper plate.  While the kids painted I cut the other paper plate in half for the ears. Using the third plate I cut out the textured part of the plate to make the trunks.   Paint (or color) the rest of the pieces.  Staple them together to make an elephant. Cut out small holes for eyes and small holes behind the ears to attach the yarn. Now that the lesson is over I have the masks hanging in the playroom.  They make a neat decoration. 
12 comments
Read more

Teeth Craft

This craft went with our meat eater unit you can see here I was having a difficult time thinking of activities for meat eaters.  I didn't want the sole focus to be on dinosaurs because carnivores and herbivores is a way to categorize many animals today. But everything I was running into was dinosaur related.  Finally I found this craft!  Materials:    paper template of a carnivore and herbivore (I drew a hippo and t-rex head outline) page of teeth scissors glue markers Little Dragon cut out the heads and then the mouth pieces.  Then he cut out the teeth and glued them inside the mouth To finish it he drew eyes on the head and a tongue on the inside of the mouth.  Little Dragon was very excited to see the finished animals and open their mouths to look at their teeth. We wrote what the animal was on the inside This was a fun easy craft that helps identify the difference in the teeth between carnivore an
11 comments
Read more