Baby Animal Games for Girls

Most young children love to see baby animals because, regardless of ferocious the animals might grow up to be, when they are little they are adorable creatures. You can use this childhood fascination with baby animals in your homeschooling with girls by creating games that are fun and provide learning opportunities at the same time. In most cases you can use supplies that you have around the house and save on costs.
  1. Match Game

    • Spend some time with your daughter cutting out pictures of adult and baby animals out of magazines. Talk with your child as you work about the various types of animals and how the mother animals take care of the babies. Make sure that you have a collection of baby animals and their mothers when you have completed this part of the project, such as one baby pig and one mother pig. Spread out the pictures of the mother and baby animals upside down on a table and take turns with your daughter turning over two pictures at a time, attempting to make mother-baby matches as you go. The person with the most matches wins.

    Baby Animal Treasure Hunt

    • After a unit about baby animals, collect several figures of baby animals, such as tiger cubs, puppies and kittens. Hide the figures around your yard. Then write a list of clues that will lead to the identification of the type of baby animal being sought and the location of that baby animal. For example, you could indicate on paper, "This domesticated creature might sleep in your "purrfect bed" and can be found just two steps away from the door of the shed." Of course your daughter will be looking for a kitten. She wins the game by successfully collecting all of the baby animals in the right order without any help from you.

    Card Game

    • Make your own homemade baby animal card game with your daughter using cut-out squares of thin cardboard or poster board as part of an art lesson. Make an even number of squares for your deck -- 52 in all. Then decide on 13 different types of baby animals that you will both draw on the cards, delegating four cards for each baby animal. Draw pictures of the baby animals on the cards, giving them any special features that you desire, such as hair bows, clothing or specific physical characteristics. Once the cards are completed use your deck to play "Go Baby," using the same rules as "Go Fish," with each player attempting to make the most baby animal matches by the end of the game.

    Charades

    • Following study about different kinds of baby animals, make a charades game for you and your daughter to play. Write the names of all of the baby animals that you have studied on slips of paper and put the paper slips in a hat. Grab a kitchen timer and give each player two minutes to try and get the other player to guess the baby animal that they are trying to portray. Once a player draws a slip of paper her object is to act like the baby animal, using some of the animal characteristics talked about during study. The player who gets the other person to guess the baby animal the most wins.

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