Materials
medical supplies (such as medicine cups, surgical masks, adhesive bandages,
tongue depressors, plastic gloves, gauze, and so on)
large piece of cardboard or heavy paper
glue
crayons or markers
Instructions
1. Make lamb and lion paper plate masks as shown in the illustration. Use a
marker to draw faces on paper plates. Give one to each child.
2. Encourage the children to color their plates. Help them cut out the eyes.
Provide yarn and cotton balls for them to glue to their masks.
3. Teach them the saying, "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb."
Explain that this means the month of March starts out very wintry (windy
and cold), and ends more spring-like (warmer and calm).
4. Play the game "lambs and lions." Half of the children are lambs and the other
half are lions. Place tape on floor to mark the starting point. When you say,
"Go," the lambs cross the base (tape) and the lions try to tag them. If a child
is tagged, he is out. Play the game as many times as desired.
5. Make a wooly cotton ball lamb and a furry lion by cutting out shapes from
construction paper (see illustration). Then let the children glue fake fur and
yarn on the lion body and cotton balls on the lamb.
