All the DAZE Productions: Farm DAZE

Old MacDonald had a Farm

Art
Baby Chicks
Materials: Yellow and orange construction paper, scissors, glue, crayons or markers.
Directions: Teachers, on yellow paper, pre draw an oval shape and leave room on the paper for the
child's hands to be traced.
On the orange paper, pre draw legs with web feet attached, and a triangle beak.
-have the children trace their two hands on the yellow paper
-cut out hands, pre drawn feet, beak, and oval
-glue the hands on the sides of oval for the feathers
-glue the feet at the bottom and the beak towards the top
-use crayons or markers for the face and to color as each child would like.
Comments: For some of the children that have trouble cutting their hands out around the fingers, you
could have them close their fingers when tracing. This makes it easier for young children to be
successful when cutting.
The children liked this activity and enjoyed it even more when we had them cut an oval out of white
paper the next day and hung them up like they just hatched!!

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
What You Need: Glue , Construction Paper , Tissue Paper (in various shades of pink)
What You Do: 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 fingerpaint 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.

Pig Roll
Have the children pretend to roll in the mud. Spread out a large blanket to represent a pigpen.
Encourage kids to lie down and roll across.

Rooster Crows
Play the rooster crows. Remind the kids that the rooster wakes up all the farm animals each morning.
Encourage everyone to pretend to be a sleeping farm animal. When you crow, everyone should get up
and move like the animal they are role playing. When you crow again, everyone should go back to sleep.

Farm Guessing
A verbal guessing game: Using small plastic farm animals, one child holds an animal under the table
and gives descriptive clues about that animal while other children try to guess which animal he is
holding.

Bandanna Bag Toss
Make bean bags out of bandanna material - fill with popcorn instead of beans, not overly full. The
children can stand behind a line of the floor and toss the bags into a rope circle on the floor

Language:
Johnny's Hammers
Verse One: (Make hammering motion with one fists)
Johnny had one hammer, one hammer, one hammer
Johnny had one hammer then he had Two
Verse Two: (Make hammering motion with both fists)
Johnny had two hammers, two hammers, two hammers,
Johnny had two hammers then he had Three.
Verse Three:(Make motion with both fists and one leg.)
Johnny had three hammers, three hammers, three hammers,
Johnny had three hammers then he had Four
Verse Four: (Make motion with both fists and both legs)
Johnny had four hammers, four hammers, four hammers,
Johnny had four hammers then he had Five
Verse Five:(Make motion with both fists and both legs and head.)
Johnny had five hammers, five hammers, five hammers
Johnny had five hammers, then he went to sleep (lay hands like sleeping)

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)

Build a House
Build a house up, build it high,
Point the chimney to the sky,
See the roof,
See the floor,
See a little yellow door.

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.

Music:
Farm Sounds
Sung to: "Wheels on the bus"
The cow in barn goes moo, moo, moo,
Moo, moo, moo. Moo, moo, moo,
repeat
All around the farm.
The pig in the pen goes oink, oink, oink,...........
The hens in the coop go cluck..........
The lambs on the hill go baa,........
The ducks on the pond go quack......

I like Baby Animals
Sung to: "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
Sung to: "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.

To The Farm
Sung to: " 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
Sung to: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
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.

If I Were a Farmer
Sung to: "Did you ever see a lassie?"
Oh, if I were a farmer, a farmer, a farmer
Oh, if I were a farmer, what would I do?
I would milk the cows each morning
Each morning, each morning
I would milk the cows each morning, that's what I'd do.
Continue using:
I would feed the baby chickens
I would gather eggs for breakfast

Traditional Songs to Sing
Farmer in the Dell
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Five Little Ducks
Mary had a Little Lamb
Old MacDonald
BINGO

Recipes:
Eat haystacks
Use cereal such as shredded wheat or anything that looks like hay.

Pigs In A Blanket
Need: Hot dogs, Refrigerator Roll - Crescent Rolls
Directions: Each child gets a quartered piece of hot dog. (Quartering the hot dog will help prevent
choking.) Children also receive a triangle shaped crescent dough. Children roll their hot dog in the
dough and bake in the toaster oven until done. Leave ample time to cool.

Cow Milk Shakes
Need: Milk, Ice Cream, Chocolate or Strawberry Syrup
Directions: This project provides an opportunity for children with physical disabilities to take a major role
in the cooking process. Using a single switch power adapter, physically challenged children can be in
charge of the blending. It develops great self esteem as well as a super snack!

Scrambled Eggs
Ingredients
Eggs
Whole Wheat Toast
Children will learn to prepare a simple breakfast. The microwave is a safe alternative to using a stove tip
to make the scrambled eggs. It also gives children practical use for learning their numbers when they
input them into the microwave to cook their meal. We cooked the eggs for one minute in the microwave.
We paired this cooking activity with the story, "The Little Red Hen".

Making Butter
Small Container with Lid
Heavy Cream
Salt (if desired)
Pour a small amount of cream into a container. Shake container for a bout 5 min. (You will probably
need to take turns.) The cream should be thickening into butter. Add salt if needed. Spread on
crackers, or bread.

Pear Mouse
Need: Canned pear halves, Raisins, Sliced Almonds, Maraschino Cherries, Red string licorice
Directions: The children put these mice together using the ingredients above, then
gobble them up!

Chicken Coop Nest
Need: Chow Mien Noodles, Hard Shell Topping, Marshmallows (eggs)
Directions: Children spread their chow mien noodles at the bottom of a paper bowl.
Squeeze the hard shell over your noodles and put into refrigerator until stiff. Add marshmallow (eggs)
and enjoy!

- Drink or eat meat, etc. from various farm animals (e.g. ham, pork, chicken, eggs, milk, etc.)

Sensory:
Soil
Have the children examine several types of soil. These could be Sand, clay, potting soil, topsoil, etc.
Have the children use a magnifying glass to look closely at the soil. Let them touch it to see how it feels.

Things to touch
Using the sense of touch to feel things from a farm: You can make a feely box with items from farms: ear
of corn, hay, sheep wool, turkey/chicken feather, etc.

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

Mud
Ahead of time, mix water and dirt to form some thick mud. Divide the mud among several zipper-top
freezer bags and close the top of each bag. Have the children practice printing numbers in the mud.
Show them how to smooth the mud out so they can make a new number.

Muddy Butter Play Dough
1 C. Peanut butter
1 C. Powdered Milk
1 C. Honey
1 C. Oatmeal

Mix together. Play with and/or eat.