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Where's My Bat Pup?
Objective
Children will learn to use the sense and skill of listening.
Method
Children will try to find their bat pup using only their sense of hearing.
Materials
- At least four blindfolds
- Index cards (these will serve as sound cards) for the remaining children
Background
In a maternity colony of bats with hundreds of young, a female bat can find her pup by its unique call. Click here for more information about bats in Ohio.
Procedure
- Choose four children to be mother bats. Blindfold them.
- Give four children sound cards (rink, ah, boo, ohm). Help them pronounce their sounds. These are the pups.
- Have each of the four pups make their call for the mother bats.
 Ask the mother bats if they can recall what the call sounded like, have them repeat it.- Give out the other sound cards (bong, sink, purr, pwish, pickle, oh, swish, burr) to the rest of the students
- Let everyone practice their sounds.
- Again, have each young bat make the sound for one female bat and so on.
- Spin the mother bats around.
- Have all of the young bats huddled together to stay warm. (They should all be making their sounds at the same time)
- Have the mother bats find their pup.
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