It's best to begin educating children at a young age, and one of the best ways to help children understand things is by presenting the information in the form of a game.
Teaching kids about mammals such as bats can be fun, as there are scores of educational bat games for kids.
Bat Sense of Smell Experiment
Teach kids how bats use their sense of smell to locate their young (pups) with this educational bat game. Play this game with six children at a time. You will need an egg carton, six blindfolds, six small film canisters, six cotton balls and six different scented oils such as cinnamon, vanilla, lemon, cloves, witch hazel and mint.
Dip each cotton ball into one scent and place the cotton ball in a film canister. Label the canister with a child's name. Have children become accustomed to their cotton ball's scent, then place each canister in the egg carton. The egg carton represents the bat nursery where the mommy bat leaves her pup while she goes out and hunts for food.
Put a blindfolds on the children and have them pretend they are in a dark bat cave looking for food.
Allow the children to return one by one to the bat nursery and, while still blindfolded, use their sense of smell to find their pup. If they cannot recognize their pup's scent, it is possible another child mistakenly took theirs, so encourage the child to choose a pup and then describe how that pup's scent differs from their own pup's scent.
Once each child chooses a pup, have the children remove their blindfolds and urge them to talk about how they found their pups.
Night and Day
This is a fun, education bat game for young children. You need two pieces of paper and a marker. Write "night" on one piece of paper and "day" on the other. Hold up the sign that reads "night" and have the kids run around and flap their arms as if they have wings, pretending to be bats. Hold up the sign that reads "day" and have them find a place to sit with their legs propped up so they can pretend to be sleeping bats.
Echolocation Game
This educational game teaches kids about echolocation and how bats use their mouth or nose to send out sound waves to hit an object and send an echo back.
Choose one child to be the "bat" and blindfold him. Have the rest of the children play the role of "insects" by randomly spreading out around the bat. The bat calls out "beep, beep" and the insects answer with "buzz, buzz" as they walk around. The bat tries to tag one of the "insects" by listening for the sounds they make and following in the direction of those sounds. Once an "insect" is tagged, she must go sit in the "bat cave" until the next round. The new "bat" is the last person tagged.
Author: Lisa Wampler
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