AGE
DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS
Creative Movement, Creativity, Divergent Thinking, Dramatic Play, Large Motor Skills
WATCH OUT!
If your child is allergic, please use gluten-free animal crackers.
MATERIALS - click to buy
- Bag or box of animal crackers. You pick up a bag of the classic Barnum animal crackers, naturally-sweetened animal cookies like these or go for the gluten-free kind all found here on Amazon.
- Space to move around in
HOW TO
- Skilly-spark: Take an animal cracker out for your child to see. Ask what animal they think it is. Then, have a chat about how they think that animal would move and sound. Think about how much fun it would be to “become” that animal.
- Now ask your child to pick out an animal cracker.
- After eating it, your child “becomes” that animal, moving and making that animal’s sounds. Encourage any and all movements and sounds to express their animal’s nature.
- After the first try, your child can choose another one and become their next animal of choice.
- Keep on going until your child’s interest wanes.
- Don’t forget to join in! Pick a cracker and act out your animals, too.
Keep the fun going
- Draw a picture or sculpt a play dough figure of some of their favorite animal crackers.
- Play a guessing game. Can you guess the animal your child is acting out? Can they guess which animal you've become?