Benefits:

• Variety of shapes, sounds and textures will create more synaptic connections in a young child’s budding brain.
  
  
• Learn cause & effect by shaking or squeezing the different animals to produce a sound.
  
  
• Develop audio discrimination, identifying the different sounds.
  
  
• Learn object permanence through hide & seek play, understanding that an animal is still exists and is nearby even though you cannot see it.
  
  
• Develop tactile discrimination by identifying the animals by touch.
  
  
• Strengthen fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
  
  
• Develop memory recall by identifying an animal hiding in a pocket or inside the cottage.
  
  
• Expand vocabulary as adult helps describe the sounds, textures, appearances and names of the animals.
  
  
• Fosters imaginary play with a cottage play house and animal characters.
  
  
• Adult can help child explore story telling with the animals and forest theme.
  
  
• Use the secret opening in the side wall for puppet play.

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