Mother's Day: Games

Where's My Mother

To play this game you will need a parachute or lg. sheet, pairs of adult and baby farm animals,
 and a large dish pan.  Put all the animals in the dish tub.  Have the children sit around the parachute.
  Show them the first pair of animals, such as the pig and piglet.  Set the piglet next to you and give
 the pig to a child.  Continue naming all the animals, and giving the adults to the children and keeping the
 babies.  Have the children hold the parachute/sheet.  Say, "Today we are going to pretend that our parachute
 is a barn roof.  Lift up high."  Everyone who has an animal should crawl under the roof, put it in the barn
 (dish pan), and crawl back out.  Lower the roof.  Hold up the baby cow and say, "The calf is looking
 for its mom.  Please help."  Give the calf to a child.  Everyone else raises the barn roof and makes
 "mooing" sounds.  The child with the calf crawls under the roof, finds the mother cow, and puts the calf
 and mother together.   The child takes his/her place on the chute.  Lower the chute.  Hold up another
 baby animal and continue until all the babies have found their moms and everyone has had a turn.

Are You My Mother

Gather six to eight different pairs of stickers of adult animals and their matching offspring. 
Place a sticker of an adult animal on one side of an index card. Place the sticker of the corresponding
baby animal on the other side.  Cut each index card in half in a different way to make the resulting
 two piece puzzles self correcting.  Put all of the adult halves on a table.  Put the baby animal halves
 in a container.  Challenge the children to find the matches.

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