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practice matching skills at the same time!
You'll need some index cards, crayons, a paper plate and animals.
The easiest way to do this is to use the sticky back foam animal stickers.
Or you child can draw animals on the cards.
Let your child stick each of the animals on a card.
Turn each of the cards upside down.
You can make a paper plate into an ark. Color it brown and fold it in half.
Your child can tape the sides together or you can staple it.
If you flatten the bottom of the plate, you can stand it up.
Let you child pick two cards at a time to turn over,
looking for matching animals.
As your child finds the matches,
they can put them "into the ark".