Farm Animals: Week 18: January 17-23

Farm Animals!

Craft:

• Torn Paper Pictures: Different colored construction paper, Glue, Pencil

1. Have your child tear off pieces from construction paper and glue it onto a picture they drew or just make a picture from the torn pieces

• Paper Masks: Paper plates, Colored construction paper, Glue, Scissors, Cotton balls, Thin elastic, Cardboard Egg Carton, Paint, Feathers, Yarn

To make a Sheep:

1. Take a paper plate and cut out circles for the eyes.
2. Cut out ears out of construction paper.
3. Glue cotton balls all over plate, let dry.
4. Punch a hole on each side of plate and thread elastic, so your child can wear it.

To make a Pig:

1. Take a paper plate and cut out circles for the eyes. Paint.
2. Cut out ears out of construction paper
3. Cut out one section from the egg carton for the pig nose.  Paint pink. Let Dry.  Cut out 2 small black circles out of paper and glue them on the nose for nostrils.  Can also make a pig snout just to wear too.  Just make nose and punch a hole on each side of nose and add elastic.
4. Glue on Nose, Let Dry.
5. Punch a hole on each side of plate and thread elastic, so your child can wear it.

To Make a Cat or Dog:

1. Take a paper plate and cut out circles for the eyes, Paint.
2. Cut out ears out of Construction paper. Cats ears cut out triangles.  Make dog ears longer if you want.
3. Cut circles out of construction paper to add spots and such to your cat or dog.
4. Draw on a nose or cut it out of paper
5. Glue pieces of yarn by the nose for the whiskers.
6. Punch a hole on each side of plate and thread elastic, so your child can wear it.

To Make a Chicken:

1. Take a paper plate and cut out circles for the eyes. Paint plate yellow.
2. Glue on a beak to the face.
3. Glue feathers around and on top of the plate.
4. Punch a hole on each side of plate and thread elastic, so your child can wear it.

• Felt Finger Puppets: Brightly colored felt or Fabric scraps, Gogglie eyes, Scissors, Glue, Yarn, Feathers

1. Trace your(adult)finger around on a piece of felt(need two pieces, one for front and back). Cut out.  Before gluing make sure its big enough for your child's finger.
2. Then glue add glue around the outer edges(leave bottom part open).  Let dry. 
3. Glue on eyes.  
4. Cut out ears, nose, tail, mane and whatever else your child wants to decorate their animal.  Glue on.  Let dry.

• Fun on the Farm: Boxes of various sizes, paints, cardboard or foam board, markers, construction paper, foam paper, ruler

1. To Make the House:  Turn a box sideways.  Cut the corner from a larger box so that the triangular shape fits on top of the first box.  Glue it in place.  Glue a small box to the front of the house.  Paint the house.  Cut a roof from cardboard.  Paint it, and glue it on.  Add details with markers, cut paper, and foam paper. Details like trees, door, window with shade, little fence on top of small box to form a patio
2. To Make the Tractor: Paint a small box or glue paper on it.  Cut four wheels from cardboard and four from foam paper.  Glue the foam paper to the cardboard.  Glue on the wheels.  Add details with cut paper and foam paper.  Cut circles out for the wheel and lights.  Glue a little red rolled up paper on top of tractor for exhaust.  
3. To Make the Fence: Cut two long, half-inch-wide strips of cardboard, and many shorter strips of the same width.  Lay the long strips parallel to each other.  Connect them by gluing the shorter strips onto them.
4. To Make the Barn:  Lay a big box on its side. Cut the corner from another box so that the triangular shape fits on top of the first box.  If the bottom box is too wide for only one triangular shape, cut another.  Glue on the triangular shapes.  Paint the barn.  Cut a roof from cardboard.  Paint it, and glue it on.  Add details with cut paper and markers.  Can add a barn door, hay loft door.  2 open doors with door. Cut out a small black square, glue it to each side of barn, then on the side of each black square add a wooden door.  You can even glue or draw a horse's head on top of a black square.
5. To Make the Chicken: Cut out the head and neck from cardboard.  Glue them onto a tiny box.  Paint the chicken.  Cut wings and a tail from foam paper.  Glue them on.  To make legs, cut a small strip of cardboard, bend it in half, then bend the ends as feet.  Glue the legs to the bottom of the box.
6. To Make the Silo:  Paint a cylindrical box or glue paper to it.  To make the roof, cut a circle from foam paper.  Cut a silt from the edge to the middle and overlap the edges of the slit.  Glue the silt closed, then glue the roof on the silo.  Add foam paper details. Like doors or windows.

• Piggy Bank: Construction paper, Square box(tissues), Paper Cup, Small box(pudding), Wooden balls, Paints, Chenille Stick, Marker

1. Glue paper over the hole in the tissue box.  To make a nose, cut the bottom from the cup.  Glue it to the pudding box to the tissue box.
2. Glue on wooden balls as legs.  Paint the pig.  Cut a coin slot in the top.
3. Cut a pipe cleaner.  Twist it. Glue it in place as a tail.  Add features with markers and cut paper.

• Rolling Box Buddies: Boxes(Shoes, Cake mix), Paints, Twine, Corrugated Cardboard, Fabric, Construction Paper, Metal Paper Fasteners, Felt, Cotton Balls, Plastic Wiggle Eyes, Foam Paper, Glitter, Markers

1. To make the body, turn a shoe box upside down, and paint it.  
2. To make the head, paint a smaller box and glue it on.
3. Poke a hole in front of the body.  Thread twine through it then tie a knot at both ends.
4. Cut wheels from cardboard, and glue fabric or construction paper on them.  Poke a hole in each wheel, and holes in the body where the wheels will go.  Attach the wheels with paper fasteners (brads).
5. To Make the Lamb:  Cut legs and ears from felt and glue them on.  Then, glue cotton balls all over the head and body.  Add gogglie eyes, a foam-paper nose and a glittery mouth.
6. To Make the Duck:  Cut wings and a tail from construction paper.  Decorate them with markers, and glue them on.  Add a foam-paper beck, gogglie eyes, and cut paper eyelashes.
7. To Make the Dog: Cut spots from fabric, and other features from paper.  Glue them on.  To make the tail, cut fringe in a wide strip of paper, cut it up, then glue it on.

• Bright Yellow Ducks: White Bag, Yellow Paint, Newspaper, String, Masking Tape, Scissors, Construction Paper, Glue, Markers

1. Paint the bag and let it dry.  Fill it halfway with newspaper.  Gather and tie it with a string above the filled part.  Fill the rest of the bag with newspaper.  Tape it closed.
2. Cut out wings, feet, eyes, feathers, and a beak from paper.  Glue them on.  Add details with markers.
3. If using as a party favor you can fill it with shelled peanuts, other treats and/or small toys.

• Pig Plate Animal: Sturdy paper plates, Flexible paper plates, Paint, Glue, Cardboard Tubes, Scissors, Construction Paper, Small Paper Cup, Chenille Stick, Yarn

1. Use 8-10 sturdy plates to make the body of each animal.  You might want to use lunch-sized plates.  Paint the bottoms an edges of the plates.  Glue 4 pairs of plates together, rim-to-rim, with the painted sides facing out.  Cut out ears from a painted flexible paper plate and glue them between the remaining two plates.  This will be your animal's head.  Glue all the pairs of plates back-to-back.  
2. Make the legs from whole or pieces of cardboard tubes.  Because there is glue on the tubes, you may want to cover them with white paper and then paint to get a more even coloring.  Glue the tubes to the body where the legs would be.  The tubes fit between the sets of plates nicely. 
3. Then cut out ears, a nose, and a tail, making sure they're the right size and shape.  You can use a small paper cup for the nose, if you like.  A curled-up pipe cleaner makes a great pig's tail.  Could make it into a piggy bank too.

• Rockin' Horse: Flexible Paper Plates, Ruler, Pencil, Paint, Crayons, Markers, Construction Paper, Small Tissue Box, Felt or Fabric, Drinking Straws, Glue, Yarn or Chenille Sticks, Thin Cardboard

1. Lightly fold a plate in half and then unfold it.  Using a ruler, draw two straight lines 1 1/2" on either side of the fold.  For a broader rocker, draw your lines farther apart.
2. Fold the paper plate along each of the lines you drew. (Make sure the folds are straight so your craft will rock straight.)  Color or paint rocker.
3. Make a 1" slit about 1/2" in from the front edge of the rocker top.  You will use this slit to insert the head.
4. Make the horse's head from a paper plate or cardboard.  Color the head with paint, markers, or crayons.
5. Use yarn, felt, or construction paper to form the features.
6. Make a horse tail by gluing or taping a bundle of cut yarn or twist and bend a bundle of pipe cleaners.  A combination of yarn and pipe cleaners works well too.
7. Poke a hole toward the back of the rocker top.  Make it just large enough to fit the tail.
8. If your craft seems a little head or tail heavy, use a coin or paper clip to balance it.  Just tape the "weight" underneath the bottom of the rocker's flat part.  This trick will also work if you want your rockin' craft to tip one way more than the other.

• Sheep Finger Puppet: Construction Paper, Markers, Craft Sticks, Gogglie Eyes, Chenille Sticks, Pom Poms, and other trims

1. Cut a sheep shape from construction paper.
2. Draw a face with markers.  
3. Break two craft sticks to from two sheep legs and a crosspiece.  Color the legs black. Glue the legs to the back of the sheep, and glue the crosspiece just above the legs.
4. Cut a strip of paper, and roll it to form a finger slot.  Glue it on the back of the crosspiece.  
5. Add a gogglie eye.

• Animal Wood Plaques: Craft Sticks, Old Magazine or Catalog(with pictures of any farm animals), Yarn, Construction Paper, Markers, Chenille Stick, Glue

1. Apply glue on the back of two craft sticks.  Lay them about 3 inches apart.
2. Place about ten craft sticks side by side across the two sticks, with no spaces showing.  Let Dry.
3. Cut out your favorite barnyard animal from a magazine or a catalog.  Glue it to the plaque.
4. Add a yarn hanger.

• Bottle Piggy Bank: 3-Liter Clear Soda Bottle With Cap, Pink and Black Construction Paper, Black Chenille Stick, Four Film Canisters, Glue(May want to use hot glue so it lasts)

1. Cover the end of the cap with a circle of pink paper.  Glue two small black dots for the nostrils.
2. Make eyes from the black construction paper.  Glue them on near the nose.  
3. Cut triangle-shaped ears from the pink paper.  Pleat the bottoms.  Glue the bottom of each ear to the head.
4. Cut spots from the black and pink paper, and glue them on the body.
5. Poke a hole in the bottom of the bottle.  Wrap the black pipe cleaner around your finger to make a curly tail.  Dip one end of the tail in glue and stick it in the hole.
6. Cut a coin slot in the top of the pig.
7. Glue paper to the bottom of the pig.  Then glue the film canisters toward the front and back to create legs.  Keep the pig upside down and undisturbed until the glue has dried.  Use can try using hot glue too.

• Farm Animal Quilt: Construction Paper, Used File Folders or Used Index Paper, Hole Puncher, Yarn or String, Plastic, Blunt-End Darning Needle, Scissors, Glue, Fabric Scraps, Wallpaper Samples, or Construction Paper Scraps, Pictures of Animals

1. Cut squares out of paper or used file folders.
2. Punch holes in the squares so they can connect together to form a larger square.  
3. Thread yarn or string through the holes and tie them together.
4. Use scraps to make animals or glue on pictures of animals.

• Shoebox Television: Shoebox, Two Sturdy Straws, 4" x 2 1/2" Calculator Tape, Craft Knife(for adult use only), Hole Puncher, Stapler, Crayons, Fine-Lined Markers, or Colored Pencils

1. Place a shoebox and lid the lengthwise.  Have an adult use the craft knife and cut a 4" x 2 1/2" "Screen" in the lid of the shoebox.  With a hole puncher, make two holes an inch past the screen and 1/2 inch from the edge of the box in both the top and bottom of the lid.  Make corresponding holes in the box.  (It may be helpful to notch the box first with the craft knife and then use the hole punch.)  The holes will be used to insert the straws.
2. Think about the story you want to illustrate and describe.  List the incidents of the story on a sheet of paper.
3. On the role of calculator tape, write and illustrate your story.  The first panel should be a title page and the last should say"The End."  Write your story at either the top or the bottom of the panel.
4. When the story strip is finished, roll the edge of the title page around one straw while leaving equal parts of the straw on either side.  Staple the roll to the straw.  Do the same with the other end.  Insert the straws into the holes you punched into the box.
5. Put on the lid and your television is done.  Rotate the straws to move through the story.

• Stick Puppets: Paper Plates, Craft Sticks or Tongue Depressors, Stapler, Crayons or Markers, Yarn, Construction Paper Scraps, Craft Glue, Optional: Fabric Scraps, Buttons, Beads, Sequins, etc., to Decorate Puppets

1. Create characters by drawing faces onto paper plates using crayons or markers.
2. Use crayons or markers to outline facial features.
3. Use construction paper scraps or yarn to make hair or mane.  Add Decorative materials to make puppet more unique.
4. Staple craft sticks or tongue depressors to the plates to create puppets.

• Chick Mask: Paper Plate(half), Orange Construction Paper, Two 12" Lengths of Yellow Yarn, Yellow Tempera Paint, Several Small Feathers, Scissors, Hole Puncher, Glue

1. Paint the paper plate half yellow.  Let the paint dry.
2. To make the mask, cut the rim off the plate. Make 3 little triangle shape bumps on top of head.
3. Cut out two eyeholes above the straight edge of the mask.
4. Cut out an orange triangle beak.  Glue the beak and feathers to the mask.  When the glue is dry, fold the beak up so that it points forward.
5. Punch a hole on each side of the mask, about half way in the middle of top and bottom sides.
6. Tie a length of yarn to each hole.
7. If desired, back each hole with a hole reinforcer before tying the yarn to the mask.

• Pocket Pet: Lidded Film Canister, 1" pom-pom and 5 small pom-poms in matching colors, Craft Foam to Match pom-pom Color, 3 Black Mini Pom-Poms, Black Yarn, Scissors, Craft Glue

1. Cut out a pair of cat or dog ears from craft foam.
2. To make your pet's head, glue the ears, mini pom-pom eyes and nose, and yarn mouth onto the large pom-pom.  Let the glue dry.
3. Glue the head and small pom-poms onto the canister to make your pet's body(feet and tail).

• Pom Pom Glove Puppets: Glove

1. Cat: PomPoms(1"Yellow, 2 White 10mm, 5mm Pink), Chenille Stems(Yellow and Orange 6mm), Two 5mm Gogglie Eyes, Black Thread.       Cut 6 pieces of thread to form whiskers.  Glue onto middle of yellow pompom.     Glue 2 white pompoms over the Whiskers to make the cheeks.  Then glue a pink pompom in the middle of the cheeks for the nose.  Cut a small piece of yellow pipe cleaner and bend them to form a M.  This is for the ears. For the middle of the ears, cut a little piece of  orange pipe cleaner and glue into the middle of the ears.  Glue on ears.  Glue on gogglie eyes.
2. Cow: PomPoms (1" Black, two 3mm Black, 1/2" Pink), White 6mm chenille stem, White and Pink Fun Foam, Two 5 mm Gogglie Eyes, Small Cow Bell.      Glue bigger pink pompom onto the black pompom to form nose.  Glue two tiny black pompoms onto the bigger pink pompom to form nostrils.  Cut out 2 ears out of white foam and 2 inner ears out of pink foam.  Glue the inner ears onto the ears.  Glue onto the sides of head.  Cut out a small piece of white pipe cleaner for the horns, bend a little to form a U and glue on top of the head.  Glue on Gogglie eyes.
3. Dog: PomPoms(1" Beige, 10mm Black), Brown 15mm Chenille Stem, Red Felt, Two 5mm Wiggle Eyes      Glue black pompom onto beige pompom to form the nose.  Cut two small pieces of brown pipe cleaner for the ears and glue on the sides of the head.  Cut out a little tongue and glue just below the nose.  Glue on the eyes.
4. Mouse: PomPoms(1"Grey, 10mm Grey, 5mm Pink), Pink and Grey Felt, Two 5mm Gogglie Eyes       Glue small grey pompom onto larger grey pompom to form the nose.  Glue small pink pom pom for end of nose.  Cut out ears out of the grey felt and inner ears out of the pink felt.  Glue ears together.  Glue onto head of mouse.  Glue on eyes.  
5. Spotted Dog: PomPoms(1"White, 10mm Black), Black Bump Chenille Stem, Red and Black Felt, Two 5mm Gogglie Eyes     Glue black nose onto white pompom for the nose.  Cut out a circle to form a spot around the dog's eye.  Glue circle on.  Glue an eye on top of circle and glue other eye on the other side.  Cut out a red tongue out of red felt and glue on just below the nose.  Cut out a black bump for each ear and glue onto head.
6. When all pom pom animals are dry glue the heads onto the glove.  Let dry.  Hot glue works best.

• Sheep Pom Pom: PomPoms(1" and ten 3/4" White; 3/4 Black), Black 6mm Chenille Stem, Black and White Foam, Small Brass Brad, 6mm Gogglie Eye

1. Cut out a the sheep's body out of white foam. Make it look like a slightly smashed circle with two triangle shaped feet.  Top of triangle will be lost in the body.  
2. Cut out 3 feet out of black foam.  Fasten the  two legs with a brad,  onto the front on top of the showing white feet, on the white part and then glue the one back leg on.
3. Glue a black pompom onto a white pompom. 
4. Glue an eye onto the black pompom.
5. Cut a piece of black pipe cleaner to form ear.  Fold the pipe cleaner piece in half.  Glue into side of white pompom.  Glue the head onto the body.
6. Cut out a piece of black pipe cleaner for the tail.  Bend the pipe cleaner to form little waves.  Glue on the back of the sheep.  
7. Glue the rest of the white pompoms on the body. 

• Chick Pom Pom: 1 1/2" Yellow Pom Pom, Chenille Stems(Yellow Bump and Orange 6mm), Orange Felt, Two 6mm Black Half Round Eyes

1. Glue a yellow bump onto each side of yellow pompom to form wings.  
2. Glue on eyes.
3. Cut out a little beak out of the orange felt and glue onto head.
4. Cut two small orange feet from the orange pipe cleaner.  Bend in half and glue feet onto bottom, front half of body.

• Box Animals: Large Box, Cord, Paint or  Felt-Tip Markers, Paper Cutouts, Pieces of Cardboard, and other scrap materials

1. Remove the lid flaps from a large box.  Turn the box upside down.  Cut a body hole in the bottom of the box large enough to fit your child's body.
2. Poke a pair of holes at each side of the body opening.  To make shoulder straps tie through two lengths of card.  Now when your child wears the box, it will not fall down.
3. Decorate the outside of the box to like an animal.  Use paint, felt-tip markers, paper cut-outs, pieces of cardboard, and other scrap materials to do this.
4. When finished, slip the box animal onto your child's body, around their waist.  Pull the straps over their shoulders, and they are ready to play.

• Cardboard Roll Sausage Dog: Cardboard Tube, Construction Paper, Yellow Yarn, Glue, Markers

1. Glue a circle of paper, cut to fit, onto one end of a short cardboard tube.  Draw a dog's face on the circle.
2. Lay pieces of yellow yarn 3 1/2 inches long crossways over the tube and glue them on for fur.  
3. Cut some smaller lengths of yarn to glue around the face, and some others for a tail.

• Cardboard Tube Animals: Magazine Pictures of Animals(Clip out the Head), Cardboard Tube, Pipe Cleaner, Paint

1. Search through magazines for an animal picture.  Clip out the head of the animal from the picture.
2. Glue the head to one end of a cardboard tube.  
3. Add pipe cleaner legs and a tail.
4. Paint the body to match.

• Barn Animal Collage: Pictures of Farm Animals, Construction Paper, Glue

1. Cut out pictures of farm animals and glue them right by each other to cover the paper.

• Eggcup Pig: Cardboard Egg Carton, Stapler, Glue, Chenille Stem, Construction Paper, Pink Paint, Black Marker, Gogglie Eyes

1. Cut out a two-cup section from a cardboard egg carton.  Bend the cups toward each other, rim to rim.  Staple them together to form a body.
2. Make legs from cardboard and glue them to the body.
3. To make a tail, wrap a thick strip of paper  around a pencil.  Keep the paper wrapped around the pencil for awhile so the paper curls.  Then remove the paper and tape it to the tail end of the pig.
4. Glue on ears made from paper.  
5. Paint the pig pink and allow the paint to dry.  Finish by painting on a face.

• Matchbox Sheep: Empty Matchbox, Toothpicks, Cardboard, Tape, Glue, Cotton

1. For the sheep's body use an empty matchbox.  Glue or tape a toothpick to each corner of the box to make legs.  
2. Cut a neck-and-head piece from cardboard.  Tape this to the front end of the box.
3. Glue cotton all over the matchbox and neck to create a woolly body.

• Straw and Pipe Cleaner Animals: Drinking Straws, Pipe Cleaners, Scissors, Pom Poms,  Construction Paper, Glue, Gogglie Eyes

1. Use a drinking straw cut down to a four-inch length or smaller.  Insert three pipe cleaners through the remaining length of straw.  Make sure all three pipe cleaners stick out at each end of the straw.
2. Bend two of the pipe cleaners downward at both ends.  This forms the front and back legs of the animal.  Bend the tips of the legs outward to form feet.
3. The third pipe cleaner should be bent at one end to form a tail and at the other end to form a neck.
4. Cut out an animal head from construction paper, draw a face on it, and glue it to the neck.  Could also use pom pom for head and glue on eyes.
5. Stand the animal on its feet.

• Farm Animal Book: Pictures of Farm Animals or Have Child Draw Them, Craft Foam, Yarn, Hole Puncher, Markers or Crayons, Glue, White Copy Paper

1. Fold pieces of copy paper in half to form book. 
2. Fold a piece of craft foam in half to form cover of book.
3. Place cover over copy paper.  Punch 3 holes down the side.  Thread a piece of yarn through each hole and tie off.
4. Then have your child draw a farm animal on each page or glue pictures of farm animals on each page.  One on each page.
5. Then just below each picture write the name of each farm animal.  You could also write the name of each animal on top  and then write a little saying below the picture.  For example: If you have a picture of a cow then write COW above the picture and write: "The Cow Went Moo!"

• Bottle Cap Ducks: 2 Colored Plastic Caps, 4 Gogglie Eyes, Craft Glue, Feathers, Orange Foam, Scissors

1. Cut the beaks from orange foam.
2. Glue gogglie eyes, beaks and feathers onto bottle caps.  Glue a feather on each side for wings and one in the back for the tail.
3. Try gluing magnets inside for a fancy way to decorate the fridge.

• Bottle Cap Pigs: Variety of Sizes of Bottle Caps, Craft Glue, Craft Paint: Black, Pink, and White, Pink Pipe Cleaner, Scissors, Tiny Buttons

1. Paint bottle caps and buttons pink and let dry.
2. Glue two bottle caps together for the head and body(head is tilted upwards), then add buttons for snouts.
3. Paint eyes above snouts, then add two dots for nostrils.
4. Cut pipe cleaner to desired lengths and twist into tails and ears.  Glue pipe cleaners to pigs.

• Old MacDonald's Barn: Large Greeting Card Envelope, Red, White and Brown Paint, Cardboard Egg Carton, Empty TP Tube, Construction Paper, Glue, Pictures of Barn Animals

1. Paint the entire envelope (Front and Back and the Inside that shows when flap is open and TP Tube Red and let dry.
2. Cut out one section of the egg carton and paint it brown.  Glue the cup to the top of the TP Tube.
3. Cut out 2 large rectangles out of the brown paper for the barn doors and two small rectangles for the hayloft doors.  With white paint trace around the edges of the doors.  Form an X on the barn doors and put a knob on each of  the hayloft doors.  Let dry then glue onto front of envelope. 
4. Glue the TP onto the right side of the barn. Let dry.
5. Make animals out of construction paper or take pictures of animals and glue them onto construction paper.  Let dry.
6. Place each animal into the barn envelope.  
7. As you sing the song, "Old MacDonald" you can pull the animals out.

Activities:  

• Barnyard Bag Games: (Makes 4 Different Games): Paper Bags, Boxes, Gift-Wrap Tube, Scissors, Tape, Paints, Glue, Small Rocks, Construction Paper, Newspaper, Cylindrical Container,  Markers, Fabric, Dried Beans, Rubber Bands, Stapler, Plastic Berry Baskets, Cotton Balls, Thin Cardboard, Other Accessories
• To Make "Feed the Pig": 

1. For the snout, cut off a short tube-shaped section from a large cylindrical container.  Trace around it onto a large box, and cut out the circle.  Cut open a bag and use the paper to cover the box and the snout.  Glue the snout into the hole in the box.  Paint the pig.  Glue on cut-paper ears and use markers to add eyes and feet.   Cut a pipe cleaner, and glue it on the back as a tail.
2. For the feed, cut out three circles from fabric.  Place dried beans in the center of each circle, then gather the edges and hold them with a rubber band.  Try to toss the feed into the pig's mouth.

• To Make "Bell the Cow":

1. On the top of a box, trace around the end of a gift-wrap tube.  Cut out the hole. 
2. Wrap the box with paper .  
3. Cut a hole in the paper to match the hole in the box.  Tape the paper in place, but leave one narrow side open.  
4. Paint the tube, and let dry.
5. Cut tabs in the button of the tube. Insert the tabbed ends of the tube into the hole in the box, and glue the tabs against the opposite side.  Let it dry.  
6. Fill the box with small rocks through the open side.  Seal that side, then paint the box and let it dry.  
7. Turn a white bag upside down, and paint it to look like a cow's head.  Glue on cut-paper ears.  Stuff some newspaper into the head, and tape it around the end of the tube.
8. To make each belled collar, cut down the seam of three lunch bags and cut off the bottom sections.  Twist each long rectangular strip, then tape them together into a circle.  (It should fit over the cow's head.)  Paint the ring and let it dry.  Tie on a large jingle bell.  Try to toss the belled collar onto the cow.

• To Make "Cornfield Bowling":

1. Use a pencil to draw an ear of corn on six lunch bags.  Leave a few inches of blank space at the top of each bag.  Paint the corn and let it dry.
2. Outline the corn with black marker.
3. Stuff the bags with newspaper.  Fold down the tops of the bags, and staple them closed.
4. To play, arrange the corn in a triangle, then use a rubber ball to bowl over as many as you can.

• To Make "Hens and Chicks":

1. Game Board: Create a large triangular board out of bag paper.  Paint the board, and let it dry.  Use markers to draw spaces at least 2 inches long.  Make the same number of spaces on each side of the triangle.  From paper, create a short path with 3 spaces leading out from each side of the triangle.  Leave space to glue the nests on the ends.  
2. Spinner: Cut-out a circle from cardboard. Divide it in 4 equal parts with a pencil.  Paint each part a different color, and let it dry.  Add numbers 1 to 4.  Glue it in the middle of the game board, and let it dry.  Cut an arrow out of cardboard and paint it.  Poke a hole in the arrow, the spinner, and the game board.  Fasten the arrow loosely to the board with a metal fastener.
3. Nests:  Cut a few inches from the top of a lunch bag, then fringe the sides and curl the ends around a pencil.  Glue the nests onto the ends of the paths leading out from the board.  At the bottom of each nest, glue in a red, brown or yellow construction paper to cover bottom of nest.
4. Chicks:  Dip cotton balls in paint and let them dry.  Make four red chicks, four brown chicks, and four yellow chicks.  Glue on paper beaks and feet, and use a marker to add eyes.  Place the matching chicks in the nests.
5. Hen Baskets: Cut a hen shape from the side of a paper bag and paint it.  Paint one red hen, one brown hen, and one yellow hen.  Glue each hen in a plastic berry basket.  Poke a hole in each corner of the board, and tie on the hen baskets.  Tie the red hen directly  across from the nest with the red chicks, and the other hens across from the matching chicks.
6. How to Play:   Three players are needed.  The point of the game is to move your chicks from the nest to the matching hen.  Each player takes a turn with the spinner.  You are allowed to move one chick per spin, and you can move to the left or right around the board.  You can have all of your chicks on the board at once, if you wish.  If you land on a space with a chick already on it, send the chick that was there, back to the nest to start over.  Whoever is the first player to move all of his or her chicks safely to the hen basket wins.

• Animal Charades

1. Have someone act out an animal and everyone has to guess what animal they are.  
2. The person who guesses right, gets to act out the next animal.
3. If no one can guess what the animal is, the person must tell them the animal and they get to go again.

• Color Eggs: Just like coloring Easter Eggs.
• Egg Race: Spoon and Plastic Eggs, 4 Baskets

1. Each team gets a spoon and a basket filled with plastic eggs at the start line and an empty basket at the finish line.  
2. The first team to get all their eggs in their basket wins.
3. If someone drops their egg, they can just pick it and continue where they are or have to start over again with that egg or another team members goes with another egg.

• Egg Throwing: Eggs

1. Have two rows of people.  Each person has a team mate.  They face each other. 
2. Start up close just passing the egg, if the egg doesn't drop each person takes a step back or just the one who caught the egg.  Then continue passing the egg.
3. The last team with an unbroken egg wins.

• Farm Animal Spelling Word Game: Pictures of Farm Animals, Card Stock, Glue, Markers

1. Glue pictures of farm animals onto pieces of card stock. Let Dry.
2. Write the name of each animal under the picture.
3. Have a separate pile of each letter in the farm animals, written on card stock.
4. Your child must then match each letter to the right animal until they spell it out.
5. Fun New Game: You could almost make two to four piles of each farm animal.  Then four piles of letters for each farm animal and try to play Go Fish.  Each player gets their animal cards,all turned down by them.  Then mix all four piles of letters together. Then each player get 7 letter cards.  The rest go into a draw pile.  Each player must then get a card from their animal pile and place it into the hand.  Make sure nobody sees. You must then try to get all the letters of that animal in your hand before you can lay it down.  You do this by taking a letter card from the draw pile and discarding a card or by asking one of the players if they have a letter you need.  If they do they must give you that letter and you then discard a card in the discard pile.  If they do not, you must then draw a card from the card pile and discard one.  You may only have 7 cards at a time in your hand. When you get all the letters in your hand then you place the animal card down and all the letters for that animal.  You then must draw a new animal card and make sure you have 7 cards again.  Then it's the next players turn.  The first to get all their animals words spelled out wins.   If there are not enough cards to have 7 cards then you just keep asking each other for cards and throwing away cards. 

• Broomstick Horse Races: Broom or Long Dowels, Lunch Bag, Markers, Newspaper, Yarn

1. Draw a horse face on a lunch bag.  
2. Fill bag with crumbled up newspaper.  
3. Place the bag onto the end of the broom or dowel and tie on with a yarn.
4. Each player gets a horse.  
5. The team or player to get to the finish line first wins.

• Visit a Farm (Milk a Cow, Horseback Riding, Feed the Animals, Pick Eggs, Ride on a Tractor, etc.)
• Visit a Music like Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL., which has a farm section
• Start planting seeds now and get ready for spring!

1. Can use plastic water jugs, butter dishes, empty pudding or yogurt cups, egg cartons, soda bottles for starter seeds.
2. Check your area what grows best for flowers and vegetables.

• Uno Moo Preschool Game
• Printables: Click Here

Songs

• Three Little Ducks
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Baa, Baa Black Sheep
• The Farmer in the Dell
• Little Duckie Duddle
• Six Little Ducks
• Three Little Kittens

• Animals on the Farm: (Tune:The Wheels on the Bus):

1. The (cow) on the farm says (moo, moo, moo) (moo, moo, moo), (moo, moo, moo). The (cow) on the farm says (moo, moo, moo), All through the day!
2. Other farm animals: Dog, Pig, Rooster, Sheep, Cat, Horse, Chicken, Duck

Movies or TV Shows:

• Home on the Range
• Charlotte's Web 
• Charlotte's Web 2
• Barnyard
• Word World 
• Baby Einstein - Baby MacDonald - A Day on the Farm 

Books:

• Barn Dance! by Bill Martin, Jr.
• Early Morning in the Barn by Nancy Tafuri
• I Went Walking by Sue Williams
• Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
• The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
• Good Morning, Chick by Mirra Ginsburg
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Tracey C. Pearson
• Who Took Farmer's Hat? by Joan L. Nodset
• Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic
• Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton

Snacks and Food:

Anything found on a farm

• Eggs
• Any Vegetable
• Chicken (Any Kind)
• Bacon
• Ham
• Beef
• Animal Crackers
• Animal Gummies
• Chicken Soup
• Oatmeal

Farm Animals: Week 18: January 17-23