| Activity Ideas: 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 tempra , Pink construction paper scraps, Wiggly craft eyes (or make construction paper eyes) Directions: This is usually a two day project. Students paint their plates pink and let dry. On the second day, students glue on eyes, pink cupcake liners for noses and cut pink construction paper ears. A mouth can be drawn with a marker. Muddy Pigs Materials: Cut out pig pattern, paint pigs pink, Brown finger paint Directions: Use fist and brown finger paint to apply the "mud". 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. Drama Imagine That Have children imagine that they are their favorite barnyard animal. This is fun and comes complete with sound effects! 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. Games Corn Transfer Provide the children with tweezers, one bowl of corn kernels and one empty bowl. Ask the children to transfer the corn from one bowl to another with the tweezers. 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. Language: 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. Math: 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. |
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