Down on the Farm

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Wooly Lambs
Cut 6 inches ovals out of poster board for body, then a 2 inch oval for the head. Glue
head on to the body. Glue cotton balls on both sides of the lamb. Add googly eyes. Clip spring type clothes pegs on for legs. The lamb will stand!

Animal Pickup Trucks
construction paper
scissors, glue
magazine pictures of farm animals & people
milk jug caps

Trace and cut out the shape of a truck from construction paper. Assist children with cutting out a window on the cab section. Have the children cut out pictures of farm animals and glue onto the back of the truck. A person can be glued behind the window opening. Milk jug caps can be glued on for "wheels".

Paper bag animal puppets
Use construction paper and other materials to create paper bag animals.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Animal stamping
Paint with animal shaped sponges.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Pig Finger Puppets
Cut a finger shape from pink felt x 2. Make sure it is wide enough that a finger will fit into it when glued together. Glue together and then add ears, eyes, snout, and a curly tail.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Hobby Horses
Stuff a sock with newspaper. Attach to a wrapping paper tube using 2 elastics. Glue on facial features, ears, and wool for mane.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Mud Pictures
Fingerpaint with mud.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Corn on the Cob Painting
Add holders to raw corn on the cob. Have children roll the cob in paint and then roll onto paper.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Bottle Pigs
Tape 4 egg carton cups to a pop or water bottle placed on it’s side. The bottle has a natural ‘snout’. Paper maché and let dry. Have children paint their pig. Add googly eyes and a pipecleaner curly tail. Cut a slot in the top if you want to use the pigs as a piggy bank.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Styrofoam Packing Sheep
Cut out a sheep shape from card paper. Have children glue the white styrofoam packing onto the sheep.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Milk Carton Barn
Have children paint a milk carton red (or glue construction paper to all sides). When dry, cut double doors. The children can use their barns with dollar store plastic farm animals.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Feather Painting
Discuss the different birds that live on the farm and then paint with feathers.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Bean/Seed Collage
Have the children create a mosaic picture using dried lentils, seeds, and beans.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Farm Flap Books
Draw a large barn shape and cut out. Older children can write story on paper cut just a little bigger that the barn door. Younger children can glue animal pictures or tell you their story for you to write. Glue the story down behind the edges of the barn door.

Turn Cardboard Box into a Barn
Cut door. Have children paint sides red and roof black. Make a silo by wrapping paper around a plastic bottle. Add a cone shaped top. Provide plastic animals.

Hide and Seek
Put out a group of different farm animals. Children hide eyes while adult removes one animal. Then children look and decide which animal is missing. Hints can be given. Continue taking animals away....until no more left!

Games

Let's Go Fishing!
Paste pictures of various animals on cardboard. Put a paper clip on each. Children "fish" with a magnet on a string for a picture. They name animal caught, imitate the sound it makes, and tell if it belongs on the farm, in the zoo, or at home.

Animal Charades
Each child in turn imitates a farm animal (i.e.. trotting horse, a waddling duck, a walking cow) and the rest of the children try to guess the animal.

What Am I?
Clothespin a picture of an animal onto back of each child's shirt. Child must guess animal by asking questions of other children. "Am I big?" "Do I give milk?"

Rooster
Everyone pretends to sleep. one child is the rooster who crows to wake everyone up
Submitted by Joni (ab_daycare)

Duck, Duck, Grey Duck
Submitted by Patti(pattiG6)

Farmer in the Dell
Submitted by Patti(pattiG6)

Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Submitted by Patti(pattiG6)

Chicken Dance
Submitted by Patti(pattiG6)

Sensory Activity

Bring in a sack of raw wool for children to feel. Make little sheep pictures by gluing clumps of the raw wool onto construction paper. Draw on little faces and feet.

Barnyard Fun
Fill your water/sand table or a large rubbermaid container with wood shavings (the ones you use for hamster/rabbit/etc cages). Add play barn (if the container is large enough if not, add a box or two for barns) and plastic farm animals.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Science Activities

Milk a Cow
Cut a cow shape from heavy cardboard. Attach a latex glove to the cow for the udder. Poke small holes into the 'udder' using a pin. Fill the glove partially with milk. Place a bucket underneath the cow and let the children take turns 'milking' the cow.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Gardening
Plant vegetables and care for them all summer. Reap your rewards at the end of the summer and early fall.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Alfalfa Sprouts
Place alfalfa seeds in a jar. Cover the jar with clean nylon or cheesecloth attached with an elastic. Every day, rinse the seeds with water to keep moist. Once the alfalfa grows, use in a salad.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Farm Sounds
(Sung to the tune of: "The Wheels on the Bus"

The cows in the barn go moo, moo,moo,
Moo, moo, moo, moo, moo, moo.
All around the farm.

Additional verses:
The pigs in the pen go oink, oink, oink;
The hens in the coop go cluck, cluck, cluck;
The rooster on the fence goes cock-a-doodle-do;
The ducks on the pond go quack, quack, quack;
The lambs on the hill go baa, baa, baa;
The bunnies in the hutch go (silently wiggle nose with finger).

Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen
Hickety, Pickety, my black hen.
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay.
Sometimes nine, and sometimes ten,
Hickety, Pickety, my black hen.

To Market, To Market
Clap your hands in rhythm

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog.
Home again, home again, jiggity jog.
To market, to market to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue
Come Blow your horn!
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy
who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack,
Fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
No, not I
For if I do,
He's sure to cry.

Baa Baa Black Sheep
Repeat for the little girl who lives down the lane
Sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full.
One for my master,
One for my dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full.

Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn't know where to find them.
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them.

Little Bo-peep fell fast asleep,
And dreamed she heard them bleating,
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they'd left their tails behind them.

It happened on day, as Bo-peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by;
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung to a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling;
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
To tack again each to its lamb kin.

Two Mother Pigs
Two mother pigs lived in a pen, (two thumbs up)
Each had four babies and that made ten. (Wiggle four fingers on each hand)
These four babies were black and white. (Wiggle four fingers on one hand)
These four babies were black as night. (Wiggle four fingers on the other hand)
All eight babies loved to play. (Wiggle eight fingers)
And the rolled and they rolled in the mud all day. (Roll hands)
At night, with their mother,
They curled up in a heap, (Make fists, palms up)
And squealed and squealed
'Til they went to sleep. (Tuck thumbs under fingers)

The Farm Yard
In the farm yard at the end of the day,
All the animals politely say,
thank you for my food today."
The cow says, "Moo." (Point to thumb)
The pigeon says, "Coo." (Point to index finger)
The sheep says, "Baaa." (Point to middle finger)
The lamb says, "Maaa." (Point to fourth finger)
The hen, "Cluck, cluck, cluck." (Point to little finger)

Point to fingers on opposite hand for remaining animals:
"Quack," says the duck.
The dog says, "Bow wow."
The cat says, "Meow."
The horse says, "Neigh."
The pig grunts, "Oink."
Then the bard is locked up tight,
And the farmer says, "Goodnight." (hands together against cheek.)

Ten Fluffy Chicks
Five eggs and five eggs
Hold up five fingers and five fingers.
That makes ten.
Wiggle ten fingers.
Sitting on top is the Mother Hen
Lock fingers together, knuckles up.
Crackle, crackle, crackle, what do I see?
Clap hands.
Ten fluffy chickens as yellow as can be.
Hold up ten fingers.

Five Little Chicks
This one works very nicely on the felt board.
Said the first little chick with a queer little squirm,
"I wish I could find a fat little worn."

Said the next little chick with an odd little shrug,
"I wish I could find a fat little slug."

Said the third little chick with a sharp little squeal,
"I wish I could find some nice yellow meal."

Said the fourth little chick with a sigh of grief,
"I wish I could find a little green leaf."

Said the fifth little chick with a faint little moan,
"I wish I could find a wee gravel stone."

"Now, see here," said the mother from the green garden patch,
"If you want any breakfast, just come here and scratch!"

Five Little Pigs
Play this game on five fingers.
Five little pigs went out to play.
The first little pig said,
"Let's go to the woods today."
The second little pig said,
"What will we do there?"
The third little pig said,
"We'll look for our mother."
The fourth little pig said,
"What will we do when we find her?"
"We'll hug her and kiss her and kiss her!"
Said the fifth little pig.

Ten Galloping Horses
Ten galloping horses came through town,
Hold up ten fingers and pretend to gallop
Five were white and five were brown.
Hold up five and five.
They galloped up and galloped down.
Gallop them up and down.
Ten galloping horses came through town.

This Little Cow
This little cow eats grass,
This little cow eats hay,
This little cow looks over the hedge,
This little cow runs away,
And this BIG cow does nothing at all
But lie in the fields all day!!!
Lay thumb on palm
We'll chase her and chase her!
Draw circles around that lazy thumb

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 that I came.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

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.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

I Had a Rooster

I had a rooster and my rooster pleased me
I fed my rooster from the green berry tree
And my rooster went cock-a-doodle-doo dee-doodle-dee-doodle-dee-doodley-doo

I had a hen and my hen pleased me
I fed my hen from the green berry tree
And my little hen went cluck, cluck, cluck
And my little rooser went cock-a-doole doo dee-doodle-dee-doodle-dee doodley-doo

I had a little pig and my pig pleased me... etc ... (continue with more farm animals)
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Down On Grandpa’s Farm

Oh, we’re on our way, we’re on our way
On our way to Grandpa’s Farm
Oh, we’re on our way, we’re on our way
On our way to Grandpa’s Farm

Down on Grandpa’s Farm there is a little pink pig
Down on Grandpa’s Farm there is a little pink pig
The pig, he makes a sound like this oink, oink
The pig, he makes a sound like this oink, oink

Oh, we’re on our way, we’re on our way
On our way to Grandpa’s Farm
Oh, we’re on our way, we’re on our way On our way to Grandpa’s Farm

Down on Grandpa’s Farm there is a big brown horse
Down on Grandpa’s Farm there is a big brown horse
The horse, he makes a sound like this neigh, neigh
The horse, he makes a sound like this neigh, neigh

Oh, we’re on our way, we’re on our way
On our way to Grandpa’s Farm
Oh, we’re on our way, we’re on our way
On our way to Grandpa’s Farm

Continue with other farm animals
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Over In The Barnyard
Sung to: "Down by the Station"

Over in the barnyard
Early in the morning
See the little yellow chicks
Standing in a row.
See the busy farmer
Giving them their breakfast.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
Off they go.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Five Little Pigs (Poem)

Five little pigs rolled in the mud
Squish, squash, squish, it sure felt good.
The farmer took a pig out, and cleaned him up nice

Four little pigs rolled in the mud
Squish, squash, squish, it sure felt good.
The farmer took a pig out, and cleaned him up nice

Three little pigs rolled in the mud
Squish, squash, squish, it sure felt good.
The farmer took a pig out, and cleaned him up nice

Two little pigs rolled in the mud
Squish, squash, squish, it sure felt good.
The farmer took a pig out, and cleaned him up nice

One little pigs rolled in the mud
Squish, squash, squish, it sure felt good.
The farmer took a pig out, and cleaned him up nice

No little pigs rolled in the mud,
They all looked nice and clean
The farmer turned his back and what do you know!
All those little pigs jumped back in the mud
Submitted by Joni (ab_daycare)

A Horse (Poem)

A horse can trot. A horse can run.
A horseback ride is lots of fun!
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Goats (Poem)

Nanny goat, billy goat. What do you say?
"Maa, maa", Silly goats, Run away!
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

The Cow (Poem)

The cow is big. The cow says "moo".
The cow makes milk for me and you.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Pigs (Poem)

Pigs can oink, pigs can snort.
Pigs are fat and kind of short.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Sheep Poem

Sheep are quiet. Sheep are cute.
Sheep give wool to make a suit.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Geese (Poem)

Geese can honk. Geese can squawk.
Geese can fly or take a walk!
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Rooster (Poem)

Old Rooster woke up just so he could say,
"How do you cock-a-doodle do today?"
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

The Farm (Poem)

The farm has a cow and a horse and a pig.
And a sheep and a goat and a barn so big!
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

The Little Red Hen
Too Many Chickens by Paulette Bourgeois
The New Baby Calf by Barbara Reid
Brewster Rooster by Berny Lucas
The Jolly Barnyard by Annie North Bedford
Sitting on the Farm by Bob King
Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox
Two Cool Cows by Toby Speed

Pigs in the Mud
Make individual servings of chocolate pudding, that is the mud. Add pink mini marshmallows for the piggies!
Submitted by Joni (ab_daycare)

Make Butter
Put cream in a baby food jar and have children shake it until it turns into butter. Taste on crackers for snack. Pass the time while shaking the butter by saying this little chant…

Shake it up
Shake it down
Shake it, shake it all around.

Shake it high
Shake it low
Shake it, shake it to and fro.

Shake it over
Shake it under
Pretty soon, you'll have butter!
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

Make Bread
After reading The Little Red Hen, make homemade bread with the kids.

1 package active dry yeast
1/4 cup very warm water (110 - 115 degrees)
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons shortening
2 teaspoons salt
6 cups flour
Soften yeast in water. Heat milk, sugar, shortening, and salt until sugar dissolves. Cool to lukewarm. Stir in 2 cups of flour. Add the softened yeast and stir until smooth. Stir in the rest of the flour. Turn out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth (about 10 minutes). Shape into a ball and place in a greased bowl. Turn once to grease surface. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in size (about 1 hour). Punch down. If making bread, divide into 2 balls and let sit for 15 minutes covered in bowl. Place in 2 loaf pans shaping dough into a loaf. Let rise. Bake in 375 degree oven about 45 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans and cool on wire rack.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)

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