Pretend to be an animal

by Devi
(Hyderabad)

I have a 2.5 yr old son, who loves games involving physical activity.

So we pretend to be some animal (say frog) and then hop around the house saying "Croak croak croak".

We keep changing the animal, action and sound (walk like an elephant and trumpet, fly like a bird waving your hands and running, saying "koo koo").

It helps him learn all the animals, how they move and what sound they make.

Sometimes I also keep some toy vegetables/fruits scattered around the house - so that when we pretend to be a rabbit we find the carrot and pretend to eat it (banana for elephant etc).

You can keep adding other stuff (apart from movement, sound and food) to this animal theme for older kids.