All the DAZE Productions: Spring DAZE

Activity Ideas:
Idea Web: Introduce and explore the following topics to expand and inspire new activity ideas: barn, silo,
animals (pigs, ducks, dog, rabbit, cow, horse, donkey, turkey, goat, chickens and their babies)

Grain Collage
Use corn, wheat, hay, oats, barley, and other grains that farm animals eat to sort and/or make a collage.

Pig Of Many Pinks
Materials: Glue , Construction Paper , Tissue Paper (in various shades of pink)
Directions: Give each child a pig cut out. Let them glue the different colors of tissue paper on the pig.
This creates a unique looking cute pig that has a great texture!

Paper Plate Pig Faces
Materials: Large Paper plates Pink cupcake liners, Pink paint , Pink construction paper scraps, Wiggly
craft eyes (or make construction paper eyes)
Directions: This is usually a two day project. Paint the plates pink and let dry. On the second day, glue
on eyes, pink cupcake liners for nose and cut pink construction paper ears. A mouth can be drawn with a
marker.

Animal Rubbings
Materials: Animals Rubbing Templates , Thick crayons without paper on the sides
Directions: Children love this activity. It is also a great activity to stimulate language skills through casual
conversation as children discuss the animals they are drawing.

Black Sheep
Cut out sheep designs out of white construction paper. Let your child glue black yarn onto the paper, or
let them use a black crayon to color the sheep.

Imagine That
Have children imagine that they are their favorite barnyard animal. This is fun and comes complete with
sound effects!

Milk it
Use a rubber glove and fill it with milk, prick the ends with a tiny pin. Tie the Wrist part closed and attach
to a board, lay the board between 2 chairs so that the "udder" is hanging where the children can milk it
into a bucket.

Egg Toss
Number the sections of an egg carton with a marking pen. Choose the numbers 1 through 12, or any
other numbers you wish to teach. If teaching very young children, use only a few numbers and repeat
them two or three times. Pretend a Ping Pong ball is an egg. Ask the child to toss the egg into any
section of the egg carton, and have the child call out the number of the section in which the egg lands.

QUACK
Everyone stands feet slightly apart, hands on knees or ankles, looking back through their legs. Then
they start moving backwards. Any contact with another player, they say a loud "Quack!" This will loosen
a group up.

RUN, RUN CHICKEN GO HOME
Like wall to wall, the children run from one safe zone to the next, but in the middle is the catcher, who
calls, "Run run chicken go home" to signal the others to run across the mid space. Anyone tagged
becomes part of the catchers for the next run, proceeding until all are caught and the game begins anew.

Noisy Nails
I'll use my hammer and five nails (Hold up Five fingers.)
That’’s too noisy, my neighbor yells (Yell)
I’ll hammer them now before it’s night! 1,2,3,4,5 (Pretend to hammer.)
And to my neighbor I’ll be polite! (Bow)

The Three Little Pigs
Tell the story of the three little pigs and bring in straw, sticks and some bricks so the children can see the
differences of all three materials.

Farm Animal / Zoo Animal Sorting
Make two picture signs. One to represent a farm and one to represent a zoo. With a collection of farm
and zoo toy animals, have the children name and sort the animal by the place they can be found.

Farm DAZE