Rats on Rabbit Zodiac Game  
1. Make twelve small cards, with name or picture of each animal (..can just cut up one copy of this page...)
2. Print copies of this page for children, one copy for each child
3. Get each child  to choose three animals  (tick or arrow or circle three animals)
4. Start randomly selecting small cards, one at a time (..teacher or child can select...)
5.  First child to have all three of his/her animals selected  is winner (& gets a prize)
6. Start again!   Will easily hold children's attention for an hour
7. At start of first game and after each few games, get children to sing two lines below.
After a while they'll know the two lines by heart....and be able to list the twelve animals by heart

Rats on  the  Rabbit,  drawing  some  hungry  sheep
made  Robbie's  doggie  play,  play-play-play-play
Remembering these two lines makes it easy to remember the 12 animals.
These two lines  can be sung to tune of "On Top of Old Smokey"