This document describes an activity called "Guess the Mother? or Child?" for a Mother's Day event. Participants are given a grid with statements about mothers or children attending the event. Mothers and children then go around signing the squares that match their characteristics. The first person to get all squares signed wins. The activity can also have separate grids for mothers and children, with the mothers' grid containing child characteristics and vice versa.

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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