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Making Footprints
Investigate tracks made by people and animals
Materials
- butcher paper (optional)
- shallow tray of water
Directions
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. (Note: Supervise your kids outside at all times.)
- Print: 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.
- Investigate: 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.
Take It Further
Children can make imprinted designs by pressing objects into slabs of clay.
With a Group
Have children dip their hands or washable objects into shallow trays of paint and print a mural together.
Based on an activity in Play and Learn with Arthur, Volume 1
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