Style:Insect Animals(plastic card) Ways to play: 1. This Montessori learning activity focuses on matching miniature animals to their matching realistic photo cards. Children lay out the cards and place the miniature animals on the matching picture.  montessori materials for toddlers Matching Skill - Visual Discrimination: This activity focuses on more advanced preschool matching.  The objects are not an exact copy of the photo so children need to carefully observe details to match correctly.  Children problem solve by looking at distinctive attributes that they can see on both the object and the photo. Usually they will start by color and eliminate pictures that do not share the same color. They can also look at shapes, patterns and details.  They might ask themselves "which animals are white?"  They will then notice more than one white animal and have to look at another attribute. Recognizing these little details helps a child grow their category knowledge and learn new vocabulary  2. Focus on a letter a day or week and use the matching animal as part of that curriculum.  3. Pretend play - lots of animals for hours of pretend play. What is Included: - 12 miniature realistic animals. (Most 2"- 3" Long, 9 are TINY at about .5"-.75") - 12 laminated cards.  Cards are 2.7’’x 4.3’’ (7x11cm).this is good montesorri toddler toys  Extension: - The photo card includes the name of the animal, so you can expand the game by studying the species! - This activity is small enough to carry around and can be extended to the fake figurine game or sensory box of the mini figurine.  - You can let the children sort and classify the figurines according to their own characteristics.
C**D
Animals don't look like the pictures making it hard for a 2-3 year old to match them together
The concept of matching the plastic marine mammals to the cards is great and the quality ot the animals is excellent. That said there are two problems with the game. 1) The pictures of some of the animals don't look like the animals because they're shown from a very different perspective. For example, the picture of the octopus shows it shooting backwards so the head's out of sight. This made it hard for my 3 year old grandchild to match the plastic animal to the card. 2) The plastic box is too small. Once you open it and take the animals out it's almost impossible to fit them back in so the lid closes. I'm using a baggie till I find a box that fits all the pieces easily. It doesn't seem like rocker science for the people designing the product to have realized the box should have been bigger.
Y**
GREAT and will last you years!!
I’m surprised with reviews because these are so much cheaper than others (typically $35) so I thought these were at a perfect price point especially since my child is pretty OBSESSED with these.
T**L
My in-home daycare children love it!
5 stars! Okay can I just gush over the organization of this is so perfect? The cards and the animals fit so well in the box. The figures match the photos very well. I run an early childhood education learning home and they loved this activity! Between, me introducing it to them, presenting the objective, and giving them their time to work together on it, it took up an entire hour of our time. They probably would have went longer if we didnt have to eat lunch on time 😂. This is a great activity!
J**E
Worth getting if you ask
I’m impressive! After reading some of the reviews i was scared to order. Im so glad I took a chance . The animals figured looks just like the animals not cheap looking or questionable. The cards are pretty good too and its not flimsy. I Will order a different theme.
T**I
Too expensive for what it is
Dollar store animals. Small cheap case. Should have been around $7, not $20 for this set. The concept is great. Its just over priced.
T**M
That was disappointing!!!!
We were very disappointed with the quality and will be returning
S**S
Quality of the toys is bad and does not match the cards
Very disappointed. I echo other customer reviews, the quality of the toys is bad and don't match at all the cards making it hard for visual recognition for younger children aged 2-3. I will not recommend it.
Y**Z
Great product
This is so perfect. I love the way that its packaged because you can also teach your child to put the items back in the zip lock bag!!!!
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