My toddler loves dinosaurs (her Daddy brainwashed her early!) and recently she has taken an interest in counting so this is the perfect book for her. There are opportunities to count the dinosaurs, sticks, wood rounds and stones as well as to match the number cards to the numbers in the book and of course to do a lot of ‘roaring’ as the dinosaurs chase each other around the tufftray.
I hid the food items under sand and gave my toddler a variety of brushes to sweep the sand away and reveal the pictures. She then looked for the corresponding picture in the book (she loves matching things) and posted it into the caterpillars mouth (complete with sound effects). When she had had enough of playing with the sand we ordered the food pictures while reading the book.
Day 20 of #oct_playalong is spells. We added the ingredients to a couldron for the witch from ‘Room on the Broom’, one of our new favourite books.
Day 9 of #oct_playalong theme was ‘warm’. We read the book ‘Snug as a Bug’ and looked at all the warm things the animals were wearing before picking clothes to dress our cut out person in. We also matched mittens and tried on our winter gloves ready to be snug and warm.
Today we read some witch books and enjoyed sticking shapes together to make witch pictures for day 7 of #oct_playalong
My little one loved finding the right animal to join the chase when reading this book.
The Littlest Penguin 