Asian Animal Figures Kit | Small World Animals of Asia

Classroom animal collections skew heavily African. Ask a class to name a wild animal and you will hear lion, elephant, giraffe long before you hear anything from Asia — which leaves an entire continent as a blank.

This set fills it. Panda, tiger, orangutan and their neighbours are animals children may recognise individually without ever having connected them to a place, and pairing the figures with a map or globe makes that connection concrete.

It is also the set that supports conservation conversations most naturally. Several of these animals are genuinely endangered, and five- and six-year-olds engage with that seriously — habitat, why the forest matters, what happens when it goes. It is a rare topic where children’s instinctive moral clarity is an asset.

Solid moulded figures, washable, sized for whole-hand grip and small-world scenes.

• Fills the continent most classroom animal sets ignore
• Connects familiar animals to a place when used with a map or globe
• Opens habitat and conservation conversations children engage with
• Solid, washable mouldings for small-world and sand play
• Recommended ages 3–7
• Contains adult-and-young Asian animals
• Figures graded 20×4.2 cm down to 5.5×1.5 cm; adult-and-young pairs invite size comparison
• Storage box included — the set stays a complete set

Pairs with the world globe carpet and classroom world map. Part of the animal kit range.