‘Mum and Baby’ wooden puzzle sorter — wild animals (photo)

About the game

A little lion cub is looking for its mum, a baby elephant wants to return to its mum, and a white bear cub is also waiting to be reunited. Help all the baby wild animals find their mums!

‘Mum and Baby – Wild Animals’ is a wooden sorting puzzle featuring realistic photographs. The child looks at the adult animals and their babies, finds the correct pairs and stacks them in two layers: first the baby, then the mum on top. The characters include lions, elephants, zebras, pandas and other wild animals.

Twelve pairs — twelve little encounters that help children recognise animals from real-life images.

In the set

• a 23 × 16 cm board with 12 recesses
• 24 picture cards: 12 mums and 12 little ones — an elephant, a zebra, a fox, a hedgehog, a wolf, a polar bear, a tiger, a panda, a squirrel, a wild boar, a lion and a roe deer
• a baby hiding under its mum

How to play

1. Lay out the pieces.
2. The child matches each mum with her baby.
3. Place the baby in the slot, then place the mum on top.

Where to start

Start with 3–4 familiar pairs.

Game variations

• ‘Whose little one is this?’;
• ‘What’s the baby animal’s name?’;
• memory game;
• ‘Where does this animal live?’.

What children can practise

• knowledge of wild animals
• language: names of baby animals
• memory

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, or during lessons with a teacher.

Material

Wood-based board (pressed wood), bright print.