This activity can give you an opportunity to talk about different kinds of families and ways animal and human families are similar and how they are different.

Materials:

• Magazines with pictures of animals
• Glue
• Large paper or cardboard
• Scissors

Directions:

As the children look through the magazines for pictures of animals, you could talk about ways the animals are alike and how they are different and how they are like human families. Help the children cut or tear out the pictures and encourage them to sort the pictures.

Can they find all the horses, cows, dogs, cats, people, etc? Do the children know that mother dogs always have puppies (baby dogs), that cats always have kittens (baby cats), and that humans always have baby humans?

For younger children, looking through the magazines and talking about the pictures may be all that interests them. Older children, though, might want to glue the pictures on large sheets of cardboard or paper to make animal family posters. While the children are pasting, you might talk with them about ways they are like the other people in their families. How are they different?

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