Screen-Free Quiet Time Busy Book for Toddlers 2-4: Australian Animals, 103 Page Printable Quiet Book

Your toddler wants your phone while you cook dinner, in the car, or while you wait at the cafe? Give their hands something to do instead. This printable busy book keeps little ones (about 2 to 4) busy with matching, sorting, counting and feeding Australian animals, no screen needed.

Print it, laminate it, cut out the cards and add velcro dots. Then pack a few pages for the car, the cafe or Grandma's house, and play again and again, all year round. Koalas, kangaroos, wombats, platypuses, echidnas, emus, kookaburras and their friends from the bush and the beach.

WHAT'S INSIDE (103 PAGES, 55+ ACTIVITIES)

Each activity has a board page and a page of 2 x 2 inch cards to cut out.

Part 1: Match, Count and Colours (51 pages)

• 5 Match the Shadow boards: koala, kangaroo, wombat, platypus, echidna, emu, kookaburra, cockatoo, quokka, Tassie devil, sea turtle, shark, seahorse and more (30 animals)

• 4 Find the Same boards: bush animals, beach day, mini-beasts and pond friends

• 6 Count and Match boards, numbers 1 to 10

• Feed the Koala: read the number, give each koala that many gum leaves (small 1 inch leaf cards)

• 2 Animal Colours boards (what colour is the crab? the frog? the cockatoo?)

• 2 Colour Match boards: beach buckets and surfboards

• Shape Match, Big or Small, and Small-Medium-Big (put 3 sizes in order)

• Find the Other Half: 12 half pictures to make whole

Part 2: Sort, Puzzles and Trace (52 pages)

• Sorting: Where Do I Live? (tree, water or ground), Fly, Swim or Walk?, Water or Land?, Beach or Bush?

• 3 Who Eats What? boards: koala and gum leaves, kangaroo and grass, echidna and ants, platypus and yabby, and more

• 3 Mum and Baby boards: kangaroo and joey, cow and calf, sheep and lamb, frog and tadpole, butterfly and caterpillar and more

• 3 What Comes Next? pattern boards

• 2 First Letter Match boards

• 8 animal puzzles (4, 6 or 9 pieces): koala, kangaroo, wombat, platypus, echidna, kookaburra, sea turtle, cockatoo

• 2 memory games

• 7 tracing pages: straight, wavy, zigzag, hopping, steps, loops and shapes

HOW YOU RECEIVE THE FILES

9 PDF files: the A4 book (Australian / New Zealand spelling: colour, Mum) and the US Letter book (US spelling), each split into Part 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B for an easy download, plus a START HERE guide. Download every part of the paper size you use.

HOW TO MAKE IT

1) Print at 100% (Actual size), card stock if you have it. You can print only the activities you want.

2) Laminate the pages and cards, or slide the boards into sheet protectors.

3) Cut out the cards and add velcro dots to the cards and the circles.

4) Keep the pages in a binder and each activity's cards in a zip bag.

Tip: put the tracing pages in a sheet protector and use a dry-erase marker to trace again and again.

PLEASE NOTE

• This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.

• Small pieces: always supervise young children. Cards are a choking hazard for children under 3.

• Colours may look slightly different depending on your screen and printer.

• The animal pictures were created by me with the help of AI tools, then selected and checked one by one; the boards, grass, buckets, surfboards and tracing lines are drawn by me in code.

TERMS OF USE

For personal and classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or class. Please do not share or resell the files.

If there is any problem with your files, send me a message and I will fix it for you. This does not affect your rights under consumer law.