Teachers provide a bag of animal cookies and invite the children to take turns pulling a cookie out of the bag. Younger children can act out the noise the animal makes or movements that animal does. The other children get to guess what animal they have. Older children that understand charades can act out the animal any way they need to. Children 8 and up can make it as a game of pictionary, using a board or paper.
Teachers choose one child to pick out an animal cracker, so no one can see which one is picked.
The child turns away from the others and eats the cracker. The other children must guess what animal it is. The one who guesses correctly is the next cracker eater. As a follow up, give each older student an animal cookie. Students write a creative story about their animals, then eat the cookies.