{"id":908,"date":"2021-05-19T21:41:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/does-your-child-have-a-love-of-animals-here\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:41:31","slug":"does-your-child-have-a-love-of-animals-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/does-your-child-have-a-love-of-animals-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Child Have a Love of Animals? Here Are 101 Fun Things to Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is your child obsessed with animals? Then keep his passion in mind when planning your day’s activities.<\/p>

Here are 101 fun things to do with a little one who has a love of animals:
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  1. Go to a zoo.<\/li>
  2. Get a pet fish.<\/li>
  3. Train your dog to do tricks.<\/li>
  4. Grab some frosting and make different animal prints on a fresh batch of cupcakes.<\/li>
  5. Go horseback riding.<\/li>
  6. Head to an aquarium.<\/li>
  7. Visit a farm.<\/li>
  8. Frame a photo of your child and his pet.<\/li>
  9. Make homemade dog treats.<\/li>
  10. Put a birdhouse in your backyard.<\/li>
  11. Go whale watching.<\/li>
  12. Visit animals at a pet store.<\/li>
  13. Adopt a cat or dog.<\/li>
  14. Watch the Kentucky Derby.<\/li>
  15. Make cardboard-tube farm animals<\/a>.<\/li>
  16. Grab all of your child’s stuffed animals and create a pretend zoo.<\/li>
  17. Visit a nature preserve.<\/li>
  18. Watch dogs play at a dog park.<\/li>
  19. Make a sea-turtle sun catcher<\/a>.<\/li>
  20. Research animal mascots and pick your favorites.<\/li>
  21. Give your child a tadpole-growing kit.<\/li>
  22. Buy some special cookie cutters and make animal-shaped treats.<\/li>
  23. Look for squirrels, chipmunks or rabbits outside.<\/li>
  24. Decorate some paper plates to look like different animal faces.<\/li>
  25. See livestock at a state fair.<\/li>
  26. Watch a movie that stars an animal.<\/li>
  27. Walk a neighbor’s dog.
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  28. Visit a dinosaur museum.<\/li>
  29. Volunteer at an animal shelter.<\/li>
  30. Download fun animal apps.<\/li>
  31. Visit an animal sanctuary or wildlife preserve.<\/li>
  32. Decorate cards with animal stamps or stickers.<\/li>
  33. Look for animals on a nature hike.<\/li>
  34. Sing and dance to animal-themed songs.<\/li>
  35. Decorate your child’s room with animal artwork.<\/li>
  36. Get your child a toy veterinarian kit that he can use on his stuffed animals.<\/li>
  37. Foster a pet for a deployed military member.<\/li>
  38. Whip up some teddy-bear toast<\/a>.<\/li>
  39. Subscribe to “Ranger Rick” magazine.<\/li>
  40. Grab some old clothes and try to make animal costumes.<\/li>
  41. Go to a pond or lake to look for turtles and fish.<\/li>
  42. Read the “National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia.”<\/li>
  43. Ask a veterinarian if she can talk to your child about her job.<\/li>
  44. Use face paint to turn your child into a little lion or butterfly.<\/li>
  45. Play animal-themed video games.<\/li>
  46. Turn snack bags into butterflies<\/a>.<\/li>
  47. Hang an animal-themed calendar in your child’s bedroom.<\/li>
  48. Study bird songs.<\/li>
  49. Study endangered animals.<\/li>
  50. Put together an animal jigsaw puzzle.<\/li>
  51. Get tickets to a dog show.<\/li>
  52. Visit a natural-history museum.<\/li>
  53. Go bird-watching.<\/li>
  54. Subscribe to “Zoobooks” magazine.<\/li>
  55. Watch bats take flight at New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns.<\/li>
  56. Plan a trip to Disney’s Animal Kingdom.<\/li>
  57. Make balloon animals.<\/li>
  58. Play animal-themed Pictionary.<\/li>
  59. Buy your child zebra- or leopard-print clothing.<\/li>
  60. Make a forest diorama out of a shoe box. All you’ll need is construction paper, cotton balls and small plastic animal figurines.<\/li>
  61. Grab some Legos and try to make different animal shapes.<\/li>
  62. Take turns making animal sounds and guessing which animal the other is impersonating.<\/li>
  63. Transform hot dogs into octopi<\/a>.<\/li>
  64. Throw a dinosaur birthday party. Check out Great Birthday Party Ideas for Boys<\/a> for some inspiration.<\/li>
  65. Dress your child up as a zookeeper.<\/li>
  66. Make animal masks<\/a>.<\/li>
  67. Have a dance party using animal moves (waddle like a penguin, hop like a bunny, etc.).<\/li>
  68. Color in an animal-themed coloring book.<\/li>
  69. Pet-sit for friends.<\/li>
  70. Visit a butterfly garden.
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  71. Watch Disney’s “Monkey Kingdom.”<\/li>
  72. Borrow animal books from the library.<\/li>
  73. Contact your police department to see if your child can meet a police dog.<\/li>
  74. Cut out animal pictures from magazines to make a collage.<\/li>
  75. Go to a cat show.<\/li>
  76. Each day, pick an animal and eat something it eats (bananas for monkeys, carrots for rabbits, etc.)<\/li>
  77. Watch Animal Planet.<\/li>
  78. Make animal puppets out of old socks.<\/li>
  79. Go to a safari park.<\/li>
  80. Watch the National Zoo’s live video stream of their giant pandas.<\/li>
  81. Make a donation to an animal shelter in your child’s name.<\/li>
  82. Have your child fill out an “All About My Pet” worksheet<\/a>.<\/li>
  83. Make cheesy turkey snacks<\/a>.<\/li>
  84. Play Pin the Tail on the Donkey.<\/li>
  85. Grab a camera, go for a walk and have your child pretend to be a nature photographer.<\/li>
  86. Watch a live video stream of San Francisco’s sea lions on Pier 39.<\/li>
  87. See wild ponies in North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras.<\/li>
  88. Make animal imprints in play dough<\/a>.<\/li>
  89. Learn about animals on the National Geographic Kids website.<\/li>
  90. Decorate animal bookmarks.<\/li>
  91. Snack on animal crackers.<\/li>
  92. Visit a petting zoo.<\/li>
  93. Make a bean mosaic owl<\/a>.<\/li>
  94. See if your library offers a program through which kids can read to dogs.<\/li>
  95. Learn how to make animal-shadow puppets.<\/li>
  96. Play animal-themed charades.<\/li>
  97. Build a homemade squirrel feeder.<\/li>
  98. Make a scrapbook featuring pictures of your child and her pets.<\/li>
  99. Try to catch lightning bugs.<\/li>
  100. Buy an ant farm.<\/li>
  101. Make animal bean bags<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>

    What else have you done to foster your child’s love of animals? Tell us in the comments below!<\/p>

    Jennifer Marino Walters<\/a> is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who specializes in parenting and lifestyle topics. She writes a mom blog, Double Duty Twins.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Is your child obsessed with animals? Then keep his passion in mind when planning your day’s activities. Here are 101 fun things to do with a little one who has a love of animals:  Go to a zoo. Get a pet fish. Train your dog to do tricks. Grab some frosting and make different animal Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":7349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":6608,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[6,17],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}