Have a printer?  That’s all you’ll need to make these lovely learning cards.  Mom, Jo, created them to help her kids learn the differences between living and non-living things.  These are great for discussing the differences between different animals too!

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Here is a link to the images.  Jo has created 28 different cards for our kids to learn with!  We  suggest printing them with cardstock and then laminating them with packing tape – they’ll be more durable that way!

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Learning activities you can do with the cards:

• Have your child sort the living from the non-living.
• Separate the mammals from the insects from the plants.
• Take the cards and separate the ones that move.  Discuss how some things move but are not alive (car) while other things do not move (tree) but are alive.
• Theorize about how each living thing gets nutrition, compare and contrast the animals mouths.
• Sort the items by size.  Which items are the biggest, which are the smallest?
• Make a mini-group and ask your child to look at the cards.  Have them close their eyes and remove a card.  Which living or non-living thing was removed?

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Thanks Jo for granting us permission to feature your cards.  Here is a link to all of her card sets, her family blog, and her Etsy store where she makes and creates many Montessori-based learning aids.

This activity is part of our Animal Learning Series.  For more click the link: