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

1. Mothers Day
Activities - 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.

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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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