The mouse and the cat Respect Help

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Children have to color the masks and cut woolen threads and glue them on the masks as if they were whiskers. Teachers will help them to make the holes for the eyes and to fasten an elastic string in order to keep the mask in place.

Each child will have the two masks, one mouse-mask and a cat one. They will use each of them according to the role they are playing.

The kids will stand on a circle (they can sit down); one of the will be the cat and another one will be the mouse. The cat will pursue the mouse. If the cat touches the mouse, both animals "give each other his paw". Now they are friends and they want to show this fact to their mates; in this way they rub their noses and sit down together. The new players will be the kids just beside them.

While the cat and the mouse are running, the rest of the group must sing:

Mouse, the cat is tagging you!
Mouse, he is going to catch you!
If he can't do it tonight,
Tomorrow he will.
But don't be afraid
Because he will be your friend.

Once all of them have run, they stand up and run all at the same time. While singing the song, each cat must try to find his mouse.