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Encourage your child’s imagination and critical thinking by letting them create a zoo! This sorting animals activity is super simple and tons of fun!
Sorting is a great way to build your child’s understanding of matching and putting the world in its place.
Animals are a favorite at my house.
Between stuffed animals, plastic animals and counting creatures we have a very diverse menagerie.
So one thing that my girls love to do with their animals is sorting them into groups and create their very own zoo.
Set Up a Zoo for Animal Sorting Activity
My older daughters will create their own spaces for the animals to be sorted into using blocks, yarn or simply spacing them out in their bedroom.
For my youngest, I used painter’s tape to form the different areas of the zoo.
Sort Animals into Groups
Since we have such a variety of animals, we started by sorting the farm animals from the zoo animals.
After we had separated them into the two groups, each girl started their zoo activity by putting the animals in the pens.
Since the tape was blue, that is where the ocean animals went.
It was so fun listening to them discuss where they were going to put their animals and why.
Play is an amazing way to build language skills.
More Ways to Sort
Because the three year old kept knocking over the blocks while she was sorting her animals, we started our own sort using frogs.
I created squares out of tape and let her decide where to start putting frogs.
As we pulled frogs out of the bucket, she would place them in the square she thought they went best.
We would talk about the color of the frog and look for an exact match.
If there wasn’t one just like it, we would put it with the closest color.
You can find another fun color matching game here.
If you don’t have molded animals, stuffed animals work well for this also. Try sorting the stuffed animals into laundry baskets and other bins for pens.
This activity could even be done with pictures of animals for more variety.
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