The Hungry Pelican provides repeated action learning for your child. This pelican is always hungry and has a big, wide open mouth, waiting for your child to feed her four cute toys - a shrimp, crab, octopus and fish.
Senses
The fundamental senses of seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling & feeling encourage a child's curiosity.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are those smaller actions between the thumb and fingers or using the toes to wriggle and feel the objects.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body.
Logic
Logical training enables babies to make connections between pieces of information.
Creativity
Colors, shapes, learning how to draw, getting familiar with music and rhythm, all goes to aid the growth of a child's creativity.
Linguistics
Linguistic Intelligence is the ability to use sound and language for expression and comprehension of others while a child is developing.
Emotion
A healthy child should be able to control and express his emotion, and interact effectively with others with mutual trust.
Communication Skills
Good communication skills lead a child to perform cooperative tasks and become productive team members.
Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem is an overall sense of achievement a child feels from the important people around him. Task basis activities could help children to build up a stronger self-esteem with a better judgment about their own worth.
*These are recommendations made under normal circumstances. Parents can determine which activities are most suitable depending on the progress of individual children.
Objective: Bedtime buddy - building a sense of security
Method: The Hungry Pelican can become your child’s bedtime buddy. Fasten it to the side of your child’s crib. Shake the pelican’s wings and legs to make sounds to attract your child’s attention.
Objective: Listening and attention training – observing your child’s reaction to sounds
Method: Shake or crinkle the sea creatures to create sounds. Observe your child’s reaction to the sounds.
Objective: Gross motor skills training – crawling towards sounds
Method: Shake or crinkle the sea creatures in front of your child. Encourage your child to crawl towards the sounds.
Objective: Listening and fine motor skills training – grasping and crinkling
Method: Encourage children to grasp at and crinkle different parts of the pelican with both their hands. This creates sounds and trains their fine motor skills.
Objective: Gross motor skills training – feeding the pelican 1
Method: Encourage your child to open the pelican’s mouth and place the sea creatures into its mouth.
Objective: Gross motor skills training – feeding the pelican 2
Method: Encourage your child to open the pelican’s mouth and place the sea creatures into its mouth. Then encourage her to pick up the sea creature from its tummy and to repeat the whole set of actions.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning facial features and body parts
Method: Use the pelican to teach children facial features and body parts such as the head, eye, mouth, foot etc.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to facial features and body parts
Method: Name a facial feature or body part of the pelican and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Teach children different colors using the pelican.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning sea creatures
Method: Teach children the names of different sea creatures.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to sea creatures
Method: Name a sea creature and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Telling apart shapes by touch
Method: The fish, shrimp, crab and octopus are different shapes and make different sounds. Place them into the pelican’s tummy. Then encourage your child to find the creature you name by touch only.
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