The Hungry Pelican
Hungry Pelican - KA10833-GB
The Hungry Pelican provides repeated action learning for your child. This pelican is always hungry and has a big, wide-open mouth, waiting for your child to feed her four cute toys - a shrimp, crab, octopus and fish.
Size:
27cm(W) x 32.5cm x 14cm(D)
Gross motor skills training – feeding
Encourage your child to open the pelican’s mouth and place the sea creatures into its mouth.
Gross motor skills training – picking
Encourage your child to open the pelican’s mouth and place the sea creatures into its mouth. Then encourage her to pick up the sea creature from its tummy. Repeat the actions and learn all about cause and effect.
Gross motor skills training – crawling toward sounds
Shake or crinkle the sea creatures in front of your child. Encourage your child to crawl towards the sounds.
Cognitive training - learning facial features and body parts
Use the pelican to teach children facial features and body parts such as the head, eye, mouth, foot etc.
Listening and attention training – observing your child’s reaction to sounds
Shake or crinkle the sea creatures to create sounds. Observe your child’s response to the sounds.
Listening and fine motor skills training – grasping and crinkling
Encourage children to grasp at and crinkle different parts of the pelican with both their hands. This creates sounds and trains their fine motor skills.
Cognitive training - learning sea creatures
Teach children the names of different sea creatures.
Cognitive training – pointing to sea creatures
Name a sea creature and encourage your child to point to it.
Telling apart shapes by touch
The fish, shrimp, crab and octopus are in different shapes and make different sounds. Place them into the pelican’s tummy. Then encourage your child to find the creature you name by touch or sounds only.