Haba Bauernhof, Instructions Manual

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Dear Parents,
Congratulations for buying a product from the series “My First Play World – Farm”. You have made the right decision to offer your
child many possibilities to grow through playing.
These instructions offer you many hints and suggestions about how to explore the play figures with your child and to bring them
to life. The instructions also include many different play exercises and first little games with rules. In this way, your child’s skills and
abilities are fostered: language and vocabulary, concentration and memory, motor skills, first counting, creativity and imagination.
Above all, however, playing these games is simply fun! So learning happens while they play, almost without effort.
The special feature of “My First Play World – Farm” is that all play sets can be combined and complement each other perfectly.
It does not matter which one you start with: the Play World remains adaptable and expandable … thus always maintaining your
child’s interest.
Lots of fun playing and exploring!
Your inventors of inquisitive playthings
My Cow Goes “Moo”
Free play fun with the wooden figures
In free play your child will explore the different play figures and bring them to life.
Play with your child and talk about life on a farm and the different animals.
Think together about which animals live there and imitate their voices,
thereby stimulating your child’s language and listening skills, as well as enhancing his imagination.
Depending on their age children will develop their own little role-play games and start to tell more and more stories when playing with the figu-
res. Additional game materials like building blocks or found items such as; sticks, stones or string can be integrated into the game. In this way and
with a few simple actions little stables, fences or mangers are set up and can be, for example, filled with wooden carrots or little fabric flowers.
There are no limits to what you can imagine!
It is important that the play environment can stay set up in the children’s room for a couple of days. In this way your child has the possibility to
add something every day or go on playing in the same way over and over again. Repetition is important in early
learning and experimenting.