What other fun activities do you like to do along with this book? After watching the video my son was much more capable of sequencing the story and answering WH questions regarding the specific story details. We ended our activity time by watching Scholastic's 'Is Your Mama a Llama' video on YouTube. I loved the idea of making a picture frame to house a photo of you and your child together (child & mama). There are several other fun activities to do with this book here and here (some of which are mentioned above). Or even a playdoh pictionary game (kids sculpt an animal and you guess which one). If kids are older and like to draw, this could also transition into a pictionary game. This game is even more fun with a larger group. Have the child make sounds like the animal card he picks or act like the animal and try and guess which animal he is trying to be. Have the animal cards on hand to hand to the child. I loved his descriptions and was surprised at how well he did! He wanted to play I Spy for the next hour.Īn easy transition from the I Spy game is to start a game of charades. It was a really good exercise for him to have to come up with descriptive statements about each animal (without giving me the answer). Once I took several turns telling him I Spy statements, then we changed jobs and he told me what to look for and I tried to find the correct animal.

For the kangaroo he jumped all around the room (see picture below) and then brought me the kangaroo animal card. He would then find the card and either make the sound that the animal made. For example, 'I spy an animal that has a pocket in the front' (kangaroo). I said an 'I spy' statement and then my son had to try and locate which card I was talking about. You could also come up with other categories to sort with: animals with wings/animals with legs, animals that live on land/animals that live in the water, etc. Have child sort animal cards into the two categories. Place each category on a separate side of the room. Write 'mama' on one white paper and 'baby' on another white paper.

Have child match the mama with the baby animal and set the pairs in a specific place. Lay out all the cards around the room on the floor (or table). creating sentences/ expanding on phrases These games were pretty simple but were awesome for working on a variety of skills: Lastly, we looked at each image and I wrote the name of the animal on the bottom of the card. Next, I found pictures of each animal (baby/mama) on Google images and we printed them out. We came up with several different games using the set of animal cards that I made.įirst, we read the book and then went through it a second time and talked about each animal. copy of book, Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino

While my baby girl napped today, we tried out a few fun book-related activities. We love this book and my little guy just got his very own copy of it for his birthday.

Farm animal momma and baby matching