Materials: 2 mama chicken cutouts, various yellow pom poms to be the chickens and a deck of number cards from 1-20. (I made mine out of green foam paper and cut them out into zig zag edges and wrote the numbers with Sharpie permanent marker)
Optional: a quilt on the floor for that farm/country feel
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| My daughter giggling at the silly name she had given one of the chick mamas |
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| Whoops, that mama has too many chicks, the card says 5! She is counting how many to take away |
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| An up-close view of what the first scenario looked like as we went through the activity, the bottom number is the total of all the chicks at the playdate. |
Activity/Scenario: the chicks have just arrived at a playdate with their chick friends! There are so many chickens at the playdate, how many chicks did each mama chicken bring to the playdate? Pull out one mama chicken at a time and have the child give it a name and then pull a number card to find out how many chicks that mama has and place the card under the chicken mama's cutout. Then have the child count out the correct number of chicks (pom poms) and have them run for a hug from their mama. Then pull another card and place the number card under the mama's belly and have the child choose how many chicks for that mama. Then have the child count how many total chicks there are at the playdate and find that number card and place it in the middle below the other two number cards. Now have the mamas suggest a game for the chicks to play and have them run along off their mama's belly. But just then....ding dong! There are new mama chickens at the playdate! And the activity continues until "Peak Fun" has been reached or child's interest wanes.
Afterwards my daughter had a grand time cuddling the chicks and having them play together on the quilt I had laid out:
Extension and clean up: have child lay out the cards from lowest to highest number and then stack them up, here's my daughter doing just that:
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