Animals and Their Young

Animals and Their Young – Montessori Animal Families Set

A beautifully crafted Montessori collection featuring 15 large, hand-painted animals. Each family includes a mother, father, and baby to help children explore real-world animal relationships through hands-on play and language work.

What’s Included

• Cow, bull, and calf
• Ewe, ram, and lamb
• Sow (pig), boar, and piglet
• Hen, rooster, and chicks
• Doe, deer, and fawn

Key Benefits

• Builds language development (naming, vocabulary, oral storytelling)
• Encourages classification & matching (mother–father–baby)
• Develops observation skills and connects to real farm life
• Invites imaginative play and collaborative work
• Ideal for Montessori zoology / culture shelves and early science

Specifications

• Quantity: 15 figures (5 animal families of 3)
• Finish: professionally sculpted and hand painted
• Typical large figure size: approx. 5 × 3 inches

Classroom Ideas

• Three-part language work: picture–picture, label–label, and object matching
• Sorting by species; sequencing adult → young
• Story prompts: “Who is the mother/father/baby? Where do they live? What do they eat?”

Age: 3–6 years

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