National Pets Month 2008
 

National Pet Month begins on the 5th April 2008

The official website can be found here www.nationalpetmonth.org.uk

We wanted to help highlight the importance of sensible pet ownership and have pulled together this set of resources and ideas to help show the children how they too can play an important part in the welfare of the pets/animals they come in contact with.

Colouring pictures

:snake: Spindle Spider has a few categories of colouring pictures that can help you show the children different types and species of animals.

Domestic Animals
Wild Animals
Farm Animals


:dog:Activity/Discussion Ideas
:shootings Ask if the children can bring in photographs of their own or a friends pet.
:shootings See if they know how to look after an animal ...eg.
* Feed it
* Has water to drink
* Make sure it is clean/has a clean & warm place to sleep
* Exercise it
* Brush / groom it's fur.
* poop a scooping !! Making sure dogs are cleaned up after!

:shootings Do the children know what types of animals make good pets? & which don't (tigers & Lions :D lol)
:shootings What do the children like most about their pet ?
:shootings How we care for animals in general - Children that live on farms will care for baby lambs and calves but they still aren't 'pets'.
:shootings See if you can get a Vet or animal shelter worker to pay a visit and talk to the children.

:shootings Display work in a giant paper paw print.
:shootings Collage Domestic animal outlines.
:shootings Look at Pet animal colours and the sort of fur, scales, skin that they have.

Bumping this great campaign for everyone who'd like to encoprate some of the ideas and aims of the NPM - National Pet Months team into their play :cheerful: