Children with autism tend to be very visual learners. Visual support is often similarly effective with learners with different types of special needs. This easy farm animals matching activity teaches special needs learners to match photos and objects while working on new vocabulary skills.
I created this easy farm animals matching activity using my favorite farm animal lacing beads and a repurposed tea box. We have serious love for these farm animal lacing beads. As you can see from the photos, we have used these beads in for so many different activities, including building fine motor skills, communication and receptive language skills, in addition to matching skills, that they are showing signs of being very well loved!
Easy farm animals matching activity in steps
Select the farm animals you will use for this activity and make your photo cards
You can use my favorite farm animal lacing beads for this activity or similar farm animal figurines that you already have at home. Take a clear photo with a white background (a white sheet of printer paper makes a simple and inexpensive background) of each animal alone. Print out the photos (using a 9 photos per page format). Laminate the sheet of paper using a laminator and cut out the photos of the farm animals to create the photo cards you will use for this activity.
