Try these links recommended by Dawn Smith at email: dawns_daycare@hotmail.com or url: www.buckeyekidsdaycare.com:
www.kidsfarm.com/wheredo.htm
www.davisfarmland.com/index2.htm
www.toybox.asap.net/farmsite/
Paper Plate Pigs:
Glue pink cotton balls to small paper plate. Add ears, eyes, and snout from
construction paper or felt.
Sheep:
Use a cutout of a sheep and glue onto a paper plate. Spread glue onto the sheep's body and let the
children put on the "wool" using dry oatmeal.
Tractor Prints:
Have you kids run their tractors through the tempera paint and then onto paper for great tractor
prints!
kara777@columbus.rr.com (Kara)
The following songs, crafts and ideas come from Tracy's website at Lil Treasures Child Care
Lamb Pencil Holder or Bunny Pencil Holder
Materials Needed:
One empty frozen concentrate juice cardboard container cotton balls, wiggly eyes, construction paper, white glue
Directions:
For lamb - Cover juice container with white construction paper.
Glue wiggly eyes on and draw in face. Cover with white cotton balls.
For bunny - Cover juice container with whatever color you want your bunny to be. Glue on wiggly eyes and draw in bunny face. Cut out two long ears out of white constructions and glue or staple to the inside of container so they are sticking out. Add soft white stuffing all around.
PIG FACTS:
•Pigs are very smart
•Pigs roll in the mud to protect themselves from the sun and insects.
•Pigs use their snouts to root for food in the ground.
•There are several different kinds of pigs.
•Male pigs are called boars, females are called sows, and babies are called shoats or piglets.
•When a pig weighs more than 120 pounds, it is called a hog.
CHICKEN FACTS:
•Hens lay eggs.
•Some eggs are used for cooking and eating.
•Roosters are the only birds with a comb on their head.
Popcorn Sheep:
Draw a picture of a sheep. Pop popcorn in front of the children and then they can glue it onto the sheep.
Grain Collages:
Add corn, wheat, hay, flax seed, oats, barley, grains that farm animals eat to the art center. The children can make collages with them.
Corn Cob Painting:
corn cobs, tempera paint, manila paper, paper plates-- Put paint in paper plates. The children dip corn cob in the paint and paint designs on the manila paper. Encourage children to use the side of the cob and roll designs. Let the children dip the top of the cob in the paint and discover what designs they can make using only the top.
Thumb Print Piggies:
Have children put pink thumbprints on a piece of construction paper and make the prints into pigs.
Cow Spots:
Ahead of time, cut sponges into chunks. Clip each chunk into a spring-type clothespin. Pour Black paint into shallow dishes. Paint cow spots on large sheets of paper.
Trace an animal with the stencil onto the tagboard and cut out animal shape. Then children clip on clothespins on the shape to make four legs. The animals will stand up.
Sponge farm
Using animal sponges have the children sponge paint some animals on a sheet of painting paper. On the top have he children print their have and then "had a farm" after it. At the bottom have the children print "There are_____
animals." The children then count their animals and print the number on the space.
Dramatic Play
Encourage the children to pretend to be farmers, using any props you have available:
Milking a glove
To help the kids understand more about cows, milk a glove! Ahead of time, make a pinhole in each fingertip of a latex glove. Outside, hang a clothesline about three feet above the ground. Clip the prepared glove to the clothesline with a pring-type clothespin. Place a pail below the glove and a low stool or chair beside it. Fill the prepared glove with water. Let the kids take turns squeezing the fingertips of the glove as if milking, so that the bucket goes into the bucket.
Milking?
A friend of mine had one of the Dads of her preschoolers cut out a big cow from plywood with a stand. She attached two of those thin latex gloves to the bottom of the cow, poked needle sized holes in the fingertips. Now the kids can milk the cow!
Saw horse
We took one saw horse, wrapped numerous layers od newspaper around the middle and then a brown blanket. Add yarn tail, paint some spots on saw horse legs, add cow face, made from a shoebox, rubber glove for utters, the children milked it, rode it, combed its tail, one of the best learning experiences for farm in a long time - everyone had a great time.
Barefoot Chick:
Materials:
Yellow Paint
construction Paper
Crayons
Glue
Cornmeal
What to Do:
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.
Cottony lambs
Materials:
Black construction Paper
Cotton Balls
White Chalk
What to Do:
Have the child trace their hands on the black paper. Cut these out, placing
the "hands" upside down so that the four fingers are the legs and the thumb is
the head. Have the kids glue cotton balls to the "body". Use chalk or
construction paper or whatever to make the eyes.
Packing Popcorn Lambs:
Materials:
White Paper
Black Paint
Glue
Packing Popcorn
What to Do:
Use black paint on the hands and stamp them on a white piece of paper, then decorate. The lambs look cute with packing "popcorn" or white paper reinforcements make great "wool". Also, leftover batting or stuffing can be used.
Wooly Lambs
Supplies:
•Poster Board
•Cotton Balls
•Glue
•Clothes Pins
•Wiggly Eyes
Cut 6" ovals out of poster board for body, then a 2" for head. Kids glue head on to body. Next, kids glue cotton balls on to the lamb. Glue wiggly eyes on and put clothes pins on for legs. They should be able to stand up.
Bunnies in the Grass
Materials:
White Paper
Crayons
Glue
Pom-poms or cotton balls
What to Do:
Have child color a white sheet of paper all green (scribbling is just perfect) that have them glue on 10-15 1/2" pom-poms or pieces of cotton balls you now have "Baby Bunnies Hiding in the Grass!"
THE QUACKING DUCK
Materials:
1 plastic cup, preferably yellow
1 yard of thick cotton cording
1 piece of sponge 1" x 2"
black permanent marker
small piece of yellow felt
Steps:
1. Make two holes, one inch apart, at the bottom of a plastic cup.
2. String thread through each hole and knot ends together, leaving a
3-inch tail on the ends.
3. Using the remaining tail, tie a sponge to the string.
4. Lightly dampen sponge and wrap around top of strings.
5. Pull sponge firmly down string to make a quacking noise.
Muddy Pigs:
Materials:
Pink Construction Paper
Shaving Cream
Brown Paint
What to Do:
I ran off copies of a pig on to large pink construction paper, and I or the kids (if they could), cut them out. I give each kid a small cup of shaving cream, added a few drops of brown paint and they mixed it up. Then painted their pink pig with "mud".
Hens
Materials:
Construction Paper
Glue
Feathers
What to Do:
Run off copies of chickens on construction paper. Cut them out, glue feathers on.
Mother - Baby Farm
To help the children learn the names of some of the baby animals create a farm on the bulletin board outside. We pair up the children and one child draws a picture of the mother animal and the other draws a picture of the baby. They then print the name of each and glue it onto the board outside.
Animal Guess Game:
Cut pictures of animals (2 of each animal) out of magazines or coloring books. Pin one picture on each child's back. All the children should move around the room behaving like the picture of the animal on their back. The object is for the children to locate their matching animal.
Animal Hospital
The children can brainstorm ways to make the area look like an animal hospital. Let them make a sign and decorate the area themselves. cotton swabs empty milkbone boxes cloth bandages bandaids rubber gloves long white lab coats stethoscope scale clipboards paper pencils baskets with pillows and blankets for overnight guests dogfood dish water dish stuffed animals from home telephone thermometer plastic toy syringes.
PIGGY PLATE
Glue pink cotton balls to small paper plate. Add ears, eyes , from construction paper. Make pig snouts from toilet paper rolls cut in half and paint pink .
To The Farm (sung to the tune of Twinkle, twinkle)
Chicken, kittens, piglets too,
Donkeys, horses, cows that moo.
Fish that swim down in the pond,
Ducklings quacking all day long.
All these things you can see
If you go to the farm with me!
Take Me Out to the Barnyard
Take me out to the barnyard
Take me out there right now
Show me the cows,pigs and horses too.
I hear an oink and a neigh and a moo
There are chickens laying their eggs
If they don't lay , it's a shame
Oh, it's one, two, three eggs today,
And I'm glad I came.
I like Baby Animals (sung to tune of London Bridge)
I like baby animals,
animals, animals.
I like baby animals,
I'll name some for you.
Kittens, puppies, chicks and foals,
Chicks and foals, chicks and foals.
Kittens, puppies, chicks and foals,
I can name some more.
Goslings, ducklings, lambs and calves,
Lambs and calves, lambs and calves.
Goslings, ducklings, lambs and calves,
I like baby animals.
Ten Little Pigs (Tune- "five little Ducks went out to play")
Ten little pigs rolled in the mud -
Squishy, squashy, felt so good.
The farmer took one piggy out.
"Oink, Oink, oink," the pig did shout!
Continue with nine, eight, seven so forth, then...
No little pigs rolled in the mud.
They all looked so clean and good.
The farmer turned his back and then,
Those pigs rolled in the mud again.
We're on the way to Grandpa's Farm by Raffi.
We're on the way, we're on the way,
On the way to Grandpa's farm.
We're on the way, we're on the way,
On the way to Grandpa's farm.
Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow.
Down on Grandpa's farm there is a big brown cow.
The cow, he makes the sound like this________
The cow, he makes the sound like this________
We're on the way, we're on the way,
On the way to Grandpa's farm.
We're on the way, we're on the way,
On the way to Grandpa's farm.
Down on Grandpa's farm there is a little yellow duck,
Down on Grandpa's farm there is a little yellow duck,
The duck, he makes a sound like this: "Quack, Quack!"
The duck, he makes a sound like this: "Quack, Quack!"
We're on the way, we're on the way,
On the way to Grandpa's farm.
We're on the way, we're on the way,
On the way to Grandpa's farm.
Then repeat We're on the way...........and add a new animal.
Use a flannel board with each animal.
The Pig Song (sung to the tune of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider")
Pigs are black and white and pink
With a large round snout.
They have a curly tail
That they often chase about.
There are many famous pigs
That you all may know.
Sort Animal Crackers:
Animal crackers can provide excellent sorting and matching experiences for children. And the best part is once you have finished the task, everyone gets to eat the assignment.
Make sugar cookies with animal cookie cutters.
Haystacks:
Melt a bag of Butterscotch chips (not the store brands they do not melt well, we used Nestles and they worked great!!) in the microwave... on high it takes about 1 min 30 sec. Add 10 oz. of Chinese Noodles and place in piles on a sheet of wax paper... That is all you do... they taste GREAT!!!! and really look like piles of hay ( or straw actually!!)!!!!!
Pigs in a blanket
Which is a hotdog with a crescent roll wrapped around it and then baked @350 for 15-20 minutes. YUM!!
Thanks again, Tracy, for the wonderful songs, crafts and ideas. Dont forget to visit her website at Lil Treasures Child Care
