Learn somethingGood for siblings
Animal Hospital
Patients arrive, painter's tape bandages go on, everyone gets better.
- Ages
- 2–7 yrs
- Play
- 15–40 min
- Prep
- 2 min
- Mess
- barely any
- Energy
- calm
- Where
- on the floor
You’ll need
Mostly things you probably have at home.
- a toy doctor kitGet it on Amazon
- stuffed animals or toy animals
- painter's tape for bandagesGet it on Amazon
Optional
- a box for a hospital bed
- small towels for blankets
How to play
Before you start: Tear off a few strips of tape and stick them along the edge of the table.
Line the patients up and ask what happened to each one.
Check each patient with the tools in the kit.
Wrap a tape bandage on the sore paw, wing or tail.
Put the patient to bed in a box with a towel blanket.
Do the rounds: visit each bed, check the bandage, and send them home when better.
What it helps with
Make it different next time
- Run an ambulance: drive the patients in on a toy truck.
- Make the bandages into an x-ray by drawing bones on paper.
Cleanup: Patients peel off their bandages on the way home. The tape goes in the trash.
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