Tools and who uses them

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 10 minutes

Read together

A hammer is for a builder. A whisk is for a cook.

Tools help people do their jobs.

Do it

1. Gather four toy or safe tools: a toy hammer, a wooden spoon, a toy stethoscope, a small spade.
2. Ask your child who uses each one: builder, cook, doctor, gardener.
3. Act out each job with its tool. “I am the cook. I stir!”
4. Draw a person and their tool. Say thank you for the people who do these jobs.

Talk about it

• Which tool would you like to use?
• What job could you do one day?

For the grown-up

A tool is made for a job. Talking about helpers also teaches thankfulness for the people who build, heal, cook and grow our food.

Mark as done

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