Animal Dominoes

Busy Bee Kids Printables are a wonderful website and have five sets of animal dominoes to download and print for free. The sets on offer are farm animals, ocean animals, bugs, safari and dinosaurs.

Each pdf file has two pages and basic instructions.  Click here to go to the site.

Resources By Theme Master List: Animals Theme

In an attempt to organise my own bookmarks and to pick and choose from all the great FREE resources available to download and print I have started listing them in these master lists by type of resource and also by theme.  You can access these master lists by using the tabs at the top of the page.
This post is on the theme of animals and will be updated periodically as I add resources to this blog or discover new sources.  If you know of any that you think should be included feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy!

Amphibians
Bugs
Cats
Chickens
Dinosaurs
Dogs
Elephants
Frogs
Horses
Mammals
Minibeasts
Octopus
Owls
Panda
Reptiles
Snake
Spider

pet 3 part cards

April is National Pet Month in the UK. We would love to have a pet but moving from house to house and between countries in Europe has meant that when our cat died (at a ripe old age) we decided that it was not fair to have another pet for a while.  B never met Thomas The Cat (I was pregnant when he died) and it is interesting to see that when we visit petting zoo's and the like he is not sure how to handle an animal gently.  Something to remedy the day after we move back to the UK...
Anyway now seemed like a good time to bring out "Pets" as our theme and I created the cards ready for us to use.

If you would like to use the cards yourself click here to download

Fine motor skills: split pin minibeasts

Fine motor skills by stealth as A had to cut these out, punch the holes and attach the paper fasteners (brads?) himself.  We downloaded the project from here at Sparklebox and it fitted in with
National Wildlife week in the UK (14th-20th March) and our general Spring theme.

They also have other characters that you can download:
Animals (lion, elephant, horse,tiger, and teddy)
Ocean animals (turtle, jellyfish,mermaid,octopus and shark)
Dinosaurs
Christmas (santa and a snowman
Teddy bear
Pets (cat dog fish and rabbit)

Farm themed resources for download

Musings of me has done it again with another gigantic (144 pages) pdf of learning resources this time all about farms.  Whilst I love the stuff she makes it is aimed at in between B and A really, and as per usual this size file caused my printer to go into meltdown as well so I am printing off the activities separately a few at a time.

Pages 5-18 contains see,trace,make sheets and we started off with those for A - they are kind of too simple for him really but give him a chance to practise his writing which is something his school and the Educational Psychologist who is assessing him have been worried about.  I think it is just that he hates writing and will go to any lengths to avoid it rather than he lacks the muscular development to do it properly but maybe we will have to agree to disagree with the experts on this one.
The pdf includes see, trace,make sheets for :
horse
goose
goat
barn
cow
chick
chicken
cat
farmer
duck
dog
sheep
rooster
pig.
True to form they have cute cartoon-like graphics to make them very appealing

For B I printed out the three-part-cards.  He is getting the hang of them providing only a few (4-6) are presented at any one time or he finds them a bit overwhelming; but he is able to do the activity quite easily. I also caught him counting them (although he stopped the second he realised I was listening) - he got all the way to 10 (!) not a big achievement for most 3 yo but B has always thrown any counting activity away with "No Counting!" as his battle cry up till now.
Pages 20-23 inclusive contain the 3-part cards.  Again cute or what.  The subjects included are the same as for the see,trace,make sheets.

No doubt I will use more of the activities over time.  In the meantime to download your own copy of the file go to Michelle's post here.

See Trace Make Resources: Animals

Being a kind of "go with the flow" activity kind of Mum I have lots of stuff that is prepared ready to use.  Some of may never see the light of day to be honest, but it is nice to have something to hand if B or one of the other kids picks up an idea and runs with it, nothing stops an interest stone dead like having to stop and make something to carry on.  

The result of this is that I have started to post resources as I prepare them - with no words of how well the kids like them because often they have yet to be used. My OH doesn't like this of course he prefers the posts with words!  If you would like to share them for use with your kiddos feel free, that is why they are here.  The graphics I have used are from a site that lets you use and adapt clipart images so long as they are for personal/educational use only, they are not owned by me and any resources made from them should not be offered for sale.

As a reminder of how to use these sheets see the initial post here.  To download any of the files for your own use click on the animal name to be taken to a download for the pdf.

Penguin	Turtle
updated 2021 - owl	rabbit
cow	monkey
panda	frog
horse
ladybug	ladybird

Nocturnal Animals Word search

I created this to use with one of the books we are looking at for stART which is about light and dark.  Since A is doing this topic at school I made this word search for him and R to do.

you can download the pdf for yourself from here

File Folder Games:Cartoon Animals

Inspired by the file folder games we downloaded yesterday from Preschool Printables R decided to make another one for B herself.  She set to work armed with her favourite silver gel pen and wrote out letters of the alphabet cutting them out as she went.  Then the pieces mysteriously disappeared.  Was it the terrible two year old or his paper munching brother who was responsible?  Some mysteries will remain unsolved forever. To salvage the situation we downloaded the animal flashcards from here and made an animal matching game instead.

B loved it just as much as the ones yesterday.