Garden Bugs with watering can, bucket and flowerpot + object-picture matching lotto + preposition lottos + tips for use, to help your child learn words for bugs and for prepositions:
WORM, SNAIL, SPIDER, FLY, GRASSHOPPER, DRAGONFLY, IN, ON, UNDER, BEHIND, IN FRONT OF, NEXT TO
The garden bugs are brand new toy counters made by ‘Learning Resources’. There are 6 figures each in a different colour: a worm, snail, spider, fly, grasshopper and dragonfly; they are made from good quality plastic and are nice to hold. NB: The colours vary in each pack but the photos match.
The watering can and bucket are made from metal (NB the bucket has some sharp edges which can be folded down), and the flowerpot is terracotta: these containers are brand new ‘wedding favour’ objects. All the miniature objects fit into a clear storage box, and come with a square of green fur fabric ‘grass’, and a fabric tote bag.
There is an object-picture matching lotto with 9 photos to match to the pictures as well as the 9 miniature objects.
There are 9 preposition lottos each with 6 matching photos. The 3 pink-backed lotto boards feature the SPIDER, SNAIL and WORM with the prepositions IN, ON, UNDER; the 3 blue-backed lotto boards feature the FLY, GRASSHOPPER and DRAGONFLY and the prepositions BEHIND, IN FRONT OF, NEXT TO; the 3 yellow-backed lotto boards feature a mixture of all 6 bugs and all 6 prepositions.
The lotto photos are also used separately as instructions e.g. ‘put the SNAIL UNDER the WATERING CAN’.
These lottos are designed to help your child learn to understand and use language at the 3 word level (‘put the SPIDER ON the BUCKET’, ‘put the FLY BEHIND the FLOWERPOT’).
The A5 page of tips contains advice that has been tried and tested with children with delayed language and children with autism, from my 30 years’ experience as a Speech and Language Therapist (now retired).
All the visual resources are laminated using Matt non-reflective plastic. The lotto boards, matching pictures and tips all fit into a sturdy A5 zipped bag, labelled with a brown parcel tag for convenience and easy storage.
This toy is brilliant for speech and language activities!
