Animal Sorting

All you need is an animal picture or board book and plastic animals (I feel like every house has that random bin). This activity is great way to work on word recognition and matching. Children can do this on their own or with their parent. Ask your child to match a plastic animal with the animal in the book. You can add additional educational components by asking your child questions like "what's the name of the animal, can you tell me two facts about them and do you know where they're from?"