Even though children under the age group of five know and understand
little apart from their mother, it is really important to make the
concept of mother clear in their formative minds. A mothers day game or
some interesting mother day activities can help the young brains to
understand what is "having a mother" all about.
"Identify the Mother" is one of the simplest games in which
you have to keep a jumbled heap of pictures of different babies of
animals and their mothers. Don't forget to keep a human mother and child
in the heap. Now, call each child in front of the soft board one by one.
Ask them to choose a matching mother-and-baby pair from the jumble and
pin it on the board provided. You can keep extra pictures of varied
other animals in the heap too.
The babies of different animals are called by typical names, which do
not bear any semblance to the names of the original species. Keeping
this fact in mind, this same game can be played with animal names
instead of pictures, for kids of first or second grade. For example, you
can prepare a list of mother-baby combinations like cub, foal, tadpole
with tiger, horse and frog etc. Then you call out each name and ask the
children to first identify the babies and the mothers and put them in
two separate columns and then match them by drawing lines connecting the
names. It would be fun to watch the tiny tots trying to identify each
animal pairs correctly.
