Brainstorm Game

Every now and then when A is getting a little unruly and wants some one-on-one time with me I pull out the whiteboard and we play games. One game that he likes is brainstorming things with a theme. These brainstorms generally keep him occupied for half an hour to an hour, and get added too for the next week or so. Every now and then he will encounter something weeks later, that would have fit in a previous brainstorm, and will say "Hey!! That should have gone on our list!!" On previous days it has been anything beginning with a certain letter or sound.
Today it was "Mammals".

One of our previous efforts: Words beginning with "B"

He knows that mammals have fur or hair, and claws or nails, and teeth, and make milk for their babies. Today he was playing with these ideas and figured out that fish don't count, and neither do dinosaurs or things with feathers... even though he really really wanted dinosaurs and sharks and peacocks on his list. I was pleasantly surprised that "people... because they have hair" was the fourth one he came up with, and dolphins were the fifth, even though I was suggesting that mammals have hair and claws.

When we started running out of ideas I suggested places where he might find mammals, and what they might do - sea, farm, zoo, ice, forests, pet shops, deserts... be predators, or prey, or something you ride, or awake at night, or something that gets killed by cars...

This is the list we came up with:
squirrel, whale, rhinoceros, horse (pony), koala, human, mouse, leopard, cheetah, lion, fox (which he told me how to spell), meerkat, tiger, camel, hedgehog, elephant, gorilla, cat (kitten), warthog, pika, sheep (lamb), possum, dog (puppy), kangaroo, goat, hippopotamus, dolphin, rat, cow, jaguar, wolf, pig, orca, polar bear, walrus, giraffe, sea lion, racoon, monkey (capuchin), zebra, llama, deer (fawn), donkey, skunk, bunny rabbit, guinea pig, porcupine....

I'm sure he'll add to this list in the coming days!