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Consider asking your local librarian to pick out books for you!

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29 Books About Pets for Preschoolers - Pre-K Pages

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Pet books for preschoolers, pre-k, or kindergarten for a pet or animal theme. The best books about pets to read-aloud to kids.

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These books are great for vocabulary development and can be the inspiration for sensory projects and art!

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Pet Activities and Centers - Pocket of Preschool

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Keep reading for pet activities and centers for a fun theme in your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten room.

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Pet Shop or Veterinarian's Office! You can also have the children vote or switch it halfway.

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Consider adding images of habitats to your block area as inspiration for their building. Will they need soft materials in the block area to create beds for their animals?

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Pictures of pets or favorite wild animals!

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Pictures of pets or favorite wild animals!

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For families that don't have pets, they can share pictures of wild animals. This will support a sorting activity of pets vs. wild animals with photographs from home!

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You can change this to water animals you might find in an aquarium

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Jello Ocean Animal Rescue 2024 - Entertain Your Toddler

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See how to entertain your toddler with this indoor activity using a few toys and gelatin. Kids will work on fine motor skills, sensory, vocabulary, & more

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All will love a water table! You can reduce the amount of water/bubbles depending on the child's abilities.

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It's Day 8 of our 31 Days of Indoor Fun for Toddlers series and today's activity was Little Sister's favorite one yet. I had planned to do a different activity today, but randomly thought of this Bath Time for Toy Animals idea and knew it would be something she would enjoy!

The great thing about this activity is that it is cleaning disguised as fun water play! Our toys could use a good wash and this was a fun way to involve both Little Sister (22 months) and Little Brother (6 years) who loved it every bit as much as she did!

This activity also offers the opportunity to review animal names and their sounds. I firmly believe that learning animal sounds is extremely beneficial for a child's language development. I would actually go as far as to say that it is a precursor to reading...as children learn to associate an object/animal with a sound (which is what they will eventually do with symbols).

Now that I've explained why this simple activity is fun, productive, and educational...check out our fun pictures. :)
Here's what you'll need:
-A large container

-Water

-A tiny bit of soap

-Washcloth

- A shower curtain liner (to keep water off your floor)

-Plastic animals.

We have several animals from the Little People Farm and the Little People Noah's Ark sets as well as a few more realistic-looking plastic animals as well.

1. Fill your "tub" with water.

2. Add your plastic animals.

...and even a little bit of soap (this is a bath, after all).

3. Let your little one get started giving those dirty animals a bath!

Scrub-a-Dub-Dub...

...there's a lion in the tub!

Once you are finished, lay the animals out on a towel to dry. The Little People animals have small holes in the bottom of them. Be sure to squeeze any remaining water out and set them upright on the towel so that water doesn't get stuck inside.

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This Bath Time for Toy Animals activity offers your toddler a fun indoor sensory experience while cleaning plastic toys! A win-win for everyone!

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You can use your own pets to explore with the kids! Alternatively, consider adding these temporary ladybug pets to measuring, observing and talking about their daily needs.

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