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        Chickens & chicks

        These fingerplays are from, Rhymes for Fingers and Flannelboards

        THIS LITTLE CHICK
        This little chick ate corn today,
        This little chick ate worms, they say;
        This little chick ate yellow cornmeal;
        This little chick ate potato peel;
        And this little chick, like a fluffy ball,
        Ate a teeny tiny bit of them all:
        Corn today! Worms they say! Yellow meal! Potato peel!
        FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS
        Five Little Chickens by the old barn door
        One saw a beetle, then there were four.
        Four little chickens under a tree,
        One saw a cricket, then there were three.
        Three little chickens looked for something new,
        One saw a grasshopper, then there were two.
        Two little chickens said, oh what fun,
        One saw a ladybug, then there was one.
        One little chicken began to run,
        For he saw a katydid and then there were none!
        LITTLE CHICKS (adapted from Piggies)
        It's time for all my little chicks to go to bed,
        the mother chicken said.
        So I will count them all to see,
        If all my chicks came back to me.
        One little chick, two little chicks,
        Three little chicks dear,
        Four little chicks, five little chicks,
        Yes they are all here!
        Why they are the cutest little chicks alive -
        1-2-3-4-5!
        Handprint Art: Cheery Chick
        Trace around 2 hands on white paper - cut them out. Cut out a yellow circle
        (chicks head) and a large yellow egg shape (chicks body). Cut out 2 orange
        feet, 2 white eyes and an orange beak using the handprints (fingers down) for
        wings glue the body parts on green paper.
        EGGS
        Eggs come in many sizes.
        Eggs hold some big surprises,
        Speckled, brown, white, or blue.
        Eggs hold babies that are new.
        Chicks from eggs are fluffy yellow,
        Chicks from eggs are funny fellows!
        Art Center
        Have the children create a barnyard scene to decorate. Use a sheet of blue
        construction paper for the background and add green and brown for the grass
        and ground. Children can do some sponge painting on white paperwith yellow
        paint; when the paint is dry,cut out a chick shape. Use construction paper
        to add eyes, beak and feet. Glue on some yellow feathers to add realistic
        effect (available at craft stores). Glue the chicks on the backgroundpaper and add a
        barn and other details to create a farm scene.
        Egghead
        Another fun idea - crack the top 1/4 off of several eggs, wash out the insides
        and let dry. Let the kids draw silly faces on the eggs. Then, place damp
        cottonballs inside them, prop them in an egg carton so they stay upright, and
        drop some grass seed on the cotton balls. Before you know it, your eggshell
        people will sprout grass hair! (Keep the cotton moist, and your kids can
        actually trim the hair as it grows!)
        Chicks
        Supplies:
        • 2 Cotton Balls
        • Orange and Black Construction Paper
        • Dry, Yellow tempera Paint
        • Glue
        • Empty, Clean Egg Shell
        Put some of the paint in a Ziploc Bag, put in the 2 cotton balls and shake
        until they are yellow. Feet, eyes, and beaks can be cut from orange & black
        construction paper and glued on. Then you can glue the chick into half of the egg shell.
        Chick on a Stick
        Use 2 small circles (yellow) and glue together like a chicks body, (head and
        body). Glue on a black beak, two wiggley eggs, or just dot with black marker
        for eyes, and two chick feet, then tape on the back a yellow feather. Finish
        by gluing onto a popcicle stick.
        Cardboard Egg Hop Game
        Draw and cut out two large cardboard eggs. Decorate them with paint, markers,
        or crayons. Have each player choose a partner and give each pair of players
        two eggs. To play. In each pair, there is a hopper and a helper. Starting
        at one end of the room, the helper places an egg on the floor in front of the
        hopper, who hops onto it with both feet. The helper then places the other
        egg a little way ahead and the hopper jumps onto it. This continues until the pair
        gets to the end of the room. Now players change roles. The first pare back to
        the starting line wins. If you don't want it to be a competition, young
        children have fun just hopping.
        Chicken in a Shell
        Cut a large oval egg form wall paper or white paper. Draw jagged line across
        half of egg and cut. If white paper is used, it should be decorated. Make a
        chick's head out of yellow or white construction paper. Color beak and eyes
        black. Paste chick to bottom half of egg shell. Fasten top and bottom shell
        together with paper fastener so top half of shell can be moved to reveal chick.
        Egg Spoon Race-Children walk down a pre determined length carrying egg on
        spoon to end and back again.

        Egg & Baskets-Line walk area with baskets of plastics eggs. Child carries a
        basket picking up eggs as she goes she gets to end and goes back and returns
        eggs to baskets.
        I'm A Little Chick..

        I'm a little chick inside an egg
        I'm alway's sleeping - snoring away
        Soon you'll hear a pecking,pecking sound
        The egg will crack and out I'll pop.
        (I'm a Little Teapot)

        Barefoot Chick
        Supplies:
        • Yellow Paint
        • construction Paper
        • Crayons
        • Glue
        • Cornmeal
        Paint (giggling allowed!) the bottom of the child's foot with yellow washable
        liquid paint. Have him press his foot onto a sheet of construction paper. When
        the child's foot is clean and the paint is dry, have him use crayons to add an
        eye, beak, and legs to his chick. Finally have him spread glue along the
        bottom of the paper, then sprinkle the glue with cornmeal.

        Peanut Butter Chick-Wiches
        &guot;From peanut butter sandwiches cut circles with a biscuit cutter. Thin carrot
        strips are legs, a small circle of cheese is the head. Chick has a raisin
        beak and 3 raisins are skewered on a toothpick for a tail
        Five and five eggs

        Five and five eggs (Hold up hands)
        That makes ten.
        Sitting on top is mother hen. (Fold one hand over the other)
        Crackle! Crackle! Crackle! (Clap hands three times)
        What do I see? (fingers around eyes)
        Ten fluffy chickens
        As yellow as can be! (hold up ten fingers)
        Large muscle: Roll eggs! Mark off a start and a finish line with masking
        tape or chalk. Have the children push plastic eggs with spoons to move them
        from the start to finish line.

        Have the children rolls like eggs. First, remind them that chickens lay eggs.
        Next, have each child curl up tighly, holding their knees. Encourage them to
        rock back and forth and roll across the floor.

        Chick Sequencing Cards
        Make sequence cards showing the different stages of a chick hatching. Draw
        pictures of the egg in its nest, the egg cracking, the chick partly out of the
        egg and the chick completely hatched. Mix up the cards and give them to the
        children. Let them put the cards in order.
        Cluck Cluck Red Hen (Tune: Baa-Baa Black Sheep)
        Have you any eggs?
        Yes sir! Yes sir!
        As many as your legs!

        One for your breakfast
        And one for your lunch!
        Come back tomorrow,
        I'll have another bunch!

        Cluck Cluck red hen,
        Have you any eggs?
        Yes sir! Yes sir!
        As many as your legs!

        A Dozen Eggs...
        Number twelve eggs or Ping Pong balls 1 through 12 with paint or a marking
        pen. Have the child place the eggs in numerical order in an egg carton. To
        make the activity easier for younger children, write the appropriate numeral
        in the bottom of each section of the egg carton. Talk about the word
        "dozen."
        What other items are sold by the dozen?

        Henny Hen...
        Make a nest by placing Easter grass in a basket or box. Place a number of
        Ping Pong balls or plastic eggs in the nest, and top them with a toy
        chicken.
        Ask the children to guess how many eggs Henny Hen has lald. Lift her up and
        have the children count the eggs. How many are there? Was the guess more or
        fewer than the actual number? Have the children close their eyes while you
        change the number of eggs in the nest.

        THIS LITTLE CHICK

        This little chick ate corn today:
        (hold up thumb)

        This little chick ate worms, they say;
        (hold up first finger)

        This little chick ate yellow meal;
        (hold up second finger)

        this little chick ate potato peel;
        (hold up third finger)

        And this little chick like a fluffy ball,
        (hold up fourth finger)

        Ate a teeny, tiny, bit of all!
        Corn today! Worms they say! Yellow meal!
        Potato peel!


        Do the chicken dance
        Humpty Dumpty activites

        Here is one flannel story..

        Five Hungry Chicks(Mother Goose)

        Said the first little chicken
        with a queer little squirm,
        "I wish I could find
        A fat little worm."

        Said the second little chicken,
        with an odd little shrug,
        "I wish I could find
        A fat little bug."

        Said the third little chicken'
        With a sharp little squeal,
        "I wish I could find
        Some nice Yellow corn meal."

        Said the fourth little chicken
        with a sigh of grief,
        "I wish I could find
        A little green leaf."

        Said the fifth little chicken,
        With a faint little moan,
        "I wish I could find
        A wee gravel stone."

        "Now see here, said the mother,
        &guot;From the green garden patch,
        "If you want any breakfast,
        Just come her and scratch!"


        You can have the kids cut chickens out of constrution paper and glue on
        sticks. Or cut from coloring books or other patterns, color, and then glue on sticks
        HENS OF DIFFERENT COLORS

        This little hen is BLACK ( hold up black hens)
        She stands in the barnyard by a big hay stack.

        This little hen is RED (hold up red hens)
        She is very tired and won't get out of bed.

        This little hen is BROWN (hold up brown hens)
        She is feeling sad and wearing a frown.

        This little hen is YELLOW (hold up yellow hens)
        She's friends with the rooster; he's a handsome fellow.

        This little hen is WHITE (hold up white hen)
        She dance's and plays, oh what a sight.

        This little hen is PURPLE (hold up the purple hens)
        She spends her day running around in circles.

        This little hen is GREEN (hold up green hen)
        She is the silliest hen I've ever seen.

        This little hen is BLUE (hold up blue hen)
        She lays eggs for me and you.

        This little hen is PINK (hold up the pink hen)
        She goes down to the pond to get a drink.

        All of these hens live at the farm
        Out in the big RED barn.


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