Icebreakers - Guess the Mother or Child

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Icebreakers Guess the Mother? or Child?

Use this activity as an icebreaker for your Mother's Day event.

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Preparation In a grid, write down a statement about each mother in each square.

The number of squares should be less than or equal to the number of mothers participating in the game.

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For example, you could write: “Mother was Born in a country other than Singapore.”, “Has a pet”, “mother likes chocolate”, “has a dog”, “Mother doesn’t like durian”, etc.

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Activity Mothers and children or youth go about the room and try to find a mother who meets the characteristics and have them sign inside the square.

A person may only sign one square on the sheet. The first person to get all squares filled with signatures is awarded.

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Variation If you do a parent/child event this could have statements about children/youth as well as statements about mothers. For an added variation, give the children/youth and the mothers separate sheets. The mothers will have characteristics of children/youth whereas the sheet give to the children/youth will have characteristics of mothers. Children will need to get the signatures of mothers and the mothers will need to get the signatures of the children/youth.

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