Forest Animals

Here's a great matching game to learn about animal tracks.

Animal Tracks: Give your child a basic understanding by first making footprints with his/her own feet. Let your child step into a bucket of water and walk down a sidewalk or driveway. Examine the footprints together. Make keepsake prints by painting your child's soles with paint and having him step onto a piece of paper. Label them "(your child's name) Tracks". Consider making prints with your feet to compare. Now, pull out your bucket of plastic animals and bugs, dip them in a shallow cup of paint or a stamp pad and make tracks with them, each on its own paper. Have your child tell you how each one is different as you label each page with your child's words. Lay them on a table with the corresponding animal toy for a science center activity. This can turn into a matching game!