Animals and Their Young – Montessori Animal Families Set
A beautifully crafted Montessori collection featuring 15 large, hand-painted animals. Each family includes a mother, father, and baby to help children explore real-world animal relationships through hands-on play and language work.
What’s Included
- Cow, bull, and calf
- Ewe, ram, and lamb
- Sow (pig), boar, and piglet
- Hen, rooster, and chicks
- Doe, deer, and fawn
Key Benefits
- Builds language development (naming, vocabulary, oral storytelling)
- Encourages classification & matching (mother–father–baby)
- Develops observation skills and connects to real farm life
- Invites imaginative play and collaborative work
- Ideal for Montessori zoology / culture shelves and early science
Specifications
- Quantity: 15 figures (5 animal families of 3)
- Finish: professionally sculpted and hand painted
- Typical large figure size: approx. 5 × 3 inches
Classroom Ideas
- Three-part language work: picture–picture, label–label, and object matching
- Sorting by species; sequencing adult → young
- Story prompts: “Who is the mother/father/baby? Where do they live? What do they eat?”
Age: 3–6 years
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