Mary had a Colored Lamb
This fun activity and song investigates colors, increases vocabulary and promotes an understanding of similes.
Mary’s lambs are so fluffy. They are made using polar fleece for the sheep’s wool and felt for the bodies. Each sheep is 11.5cm tall (4.5 inches) and 7.5cm wide (3.5 inches).
Mary has lost her lamb and needs our help.
We’ll have to sing to help her find the lost lamb.
Out comes the first lamb and we sing:
We’ll have to sing to help her find the lost lamb.
Out comes the first lamb and we sing:
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was yellow as…… the sun!
But, of course, that is not the lamb Mary is looking for.
Out comes another lamb that we think may be the right one so we sing again:
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was red as… an apple!
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was red as… an apple!
Continue singing for each different colored lamb until we find the one whose fleece was white as snow.
Suggestions for the other lambs include:
as black as night
as pink as fairy floss
as orange as carrots
as green as grass
as blue as the sky
as brown as chocolate
as grey as a storm cloud
Ask the children to make suggestions for each color.
Use as many or as few lambs at a time to suit the age and skill of the children playing
Inspired by Make Learning Fun and Mallory tells Stories and other blogs which I can’t find again. I ended up making my own patterns for this set.