Listen for your animal

Adult tells a story, children make appropriate sound effect when their animal is mentioned

Activity
Explaining and listening
Target
  • Client group → Children
  • Cognitive communication → Attention
Abstract
Each child is allocated a farm animal. The adult creates a story about life on the farm. When a child’s animal is mentioned, he or she makes the relevant animal noise.
portrait Contributor Rhiannan Walton

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Directions

Explain to the group that you are going to tell a story about some animals on a farm, and you need their help to make the story fun and exiting.

Explain that they are going to make the sound effects. Allocate a farm animal to each child in the group, use pictures / symbols as a visual prompt if required.

Tell the group that every time they hear you say their animal, they have to make the right animal sound. Have a practice!

Make up a story and praise good listening and good contributing.

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