Big and Small Animals

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Materials

magazines and catalogs

scissors

copy machine

several pieces of poster board

glue

file folders

Instructions

1. Cut out pictures of animals from magazines and catalogs. Enlarge each picture
so that you have two of each kind of animal, one small and one large.
2. Glue the large animal cutouts to a file folder, and laminate or cover with
contact paper. Glue each small animal picture to a piece of poster board,
laminate, and cut out.
3. Hand out the small animal cutouts to the children and encourage them to
match the small versions of the animals to the large versions, and then put
them in their folders.
4. If desired, store the animal cutouts in animal cracker boxes.

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