I made this Animal Tracks book to go in our Science Center during our Forest Animals theme this month. To make the book, I used a free printable from Montessori for Everyone. I printed the Animal Tracks cards and cut them apart. The pages are made with green cardstock paper, cut in half. I glued a picture of the animal and that animal’s tracks side-by-side, and one of the cards with the animal’s name below the picture. I bound the pages with chicken rings.
I also have a set of the cards printed for matching cards, and the kids can use the book as a reference to see which animal tracks match with which animal. This is one of the printables from Montessori for Everyone’s free downloads cultural materials page. Look for “Animal Tracks” under “Zoology”.
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LOVE this! What a great idea. Are there any activities that the children do along with this, or is it more of something they just enjoy looking through? I think my son would enjoy helping make something like this, and be very proud of it when he’s done – thank you for a wonderful idea!
Thanks, Nicole! I mainly wanted to add some books to my science center, so it’s mainly for them to look at. I am also adding a set of the Animal Tracks cards & they can match the animal to the tracks & use the book to find the answers if they need it.
This is way nice than the one I made. Just wondering though what is/are chicken rings ?
I’ve had the chicken rings for years. They came from the Center for Innovation in Education (Math Their Way). I don’t know if they still have them, but you could look on their site and see.
This is a great book for the little ones! I have done the animal tracks matching activity with my Native American unit for many years. Once I even set it out on the pocket chart for Open House and had the children match wits with their parents to see who could match the animal tracks to the animals best! The children, having been coached through it ahead time, really beat the pants off of their parents, LOL! It was pretty funny! Thanks for the great activity!
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