Simple riddles fill "Is Your Mama a Llama." Read the book to preschoolers and encourage them to guess the right answer before you finish passages. For example, read the section where Lloyd speaks to his friend Dave. He asks if Dave's mother is a llama and Dave responds no, unless "she hangs by her feet and she lives in a cave. I do not believe that's how llamas behave." Ask the children to guess what Dave's mother is before you finish the page.
Go through the book and identify all the animals with the children. Print out pictures of the adults and their babies from the books, such as bats, cows and swans. Glue the pictures onto separate 4-by-6-inch cards. Use them as flashcards to teach preschoolers the names of the animals and their babies and create a simple game. Spread the cards across the floor and ask the children to match the adult animals with their babies.
Cook a batch of play dough using 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup salt, 1/4 cup vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar and a few drops of food coloring for the preschoolers. Using the animals from the book, instruct the children to craft one of them. The children can choose any animals and use the appropriate colors of play dough to form a three-dimensional sculpture. Once the children finish, play a guessing game to try to figure out what each play dough animal is.
"Is Your Mama a Llama" is filled with rhyming words, or words that have similar sounds. Use the book as a jumping board to point out and learn more about rhyming words. Repeat the words that rhyme in the book to the children so they get a feel for what rhymes are. For example, the words, "cave" and "behave" rhyme. Ask children to come up with other rhyming words, such as "save" or "pave."