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Big Feet, Little Feet

This activity will help your child learn about sizes and comparison. Who has the largest feet in your household?

Big Feet, Little Feet

Activity for an individual child

Age group: 18-40 months

Duration of activity: 30 minutes

Materials:

  • Construction paper
  • Markers
  • Scissors
  • Crayons

This activity will help your child learn about sizes and comparison. You may wish to do this activity with hands as well. If you have a cooperative cat or dog in the family, you can include it, too.

  1. Have each family member place his or her feet on the construction paper. Help your child trace around the feet with a marker.
  2. Cut the "feet" out and label them.
  3. Show your child how to compare the sizes of family feet. Can he guess which outline belongs to each family member?
  4. Let your child decorate the feet with crayons.

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