Making Footprints
 From: Arthur
Scientists learn about animals by studying their footprints. Your children can study footprints by making prints on the pavement in your driveway or on butcher paper.
Materials
butcher paper (optional)
shallow tray of water
Directions
Have kids step into a shallow tray of water and then make tracks on the pavement in your driveway or on butcher paper. Help them observe what happens. Ask: How do running footprints look different from walking footprints? How do tiptoeing footprints and hopping footprints look different? Have participants try walking in each other's footprints.
Invite your children to become nature detectives. Take them on a walk and encourage them to look for animal footprints in the dirt, sand, or snow. Use the tracks to tell stories about what might have happened there.
Based on an activity in Play and Learn with Arthur, Volume 1 |
Our beautiful world is the only one we have, so it's important to take good care of the environment around us and respect all living things, both plants and animals.