Farm Crafts
Paper Bag Stick Horses - Cut 2 horse head shapes out of large brown paper bags. (The head shape should be fairly large.) You should be able to get both "heads" from one large bag. If child is younger, simply hot glue or staple the two sides together, leaving a 4-5 inch gap to put in stick and stuffing at the bottom of the head. (Older children could punch holes all around and lace a string through to sew them together.) Color or decorate the head as desired. Don't forget the eyes. Stuff with newspaper. Put a large cardboard roll (like the kind from wrapping paper) into the neck. Hot glue or staple in place. You could glue or staple yarn on for the mane if you want, but it's not necessary. You could also make a miniature stick horse by using a long craft stick or paper towel tube. I will make a template for this project eventually.
Horse Shoes - Cut a horse shoe shape out of heavy paper or cardstock. Wrap strips of aluminum foil around the horse shoe to make it look like it's made out of metal. If you make several, you can play a kid-safe game of horse shoes.
Clothespin Leg Horse - Cut out a legless horse shape from cardboard or heavy cardstock. The shape should be about 4-5 inches long. Glue on yarn for the mane and tail. Draw on the eyes with a black marker. Pinch on a clothespin for the front legs and one for the back legs. These horses will actually stand up on their own.
Hand Chicken - Cut out a large oval out of yellow construction paper. Trace child's hands onto yellow construction paper and cut out to form the chicken's wings. Glue the wings onto the sides of the chicken's body. Cut two small circles from black paper to make chicken's eyes (or draw them in with a marker). Cut out a small triangle from orange paper to make the chicken's beak and glue in place. Cut out chicken feet from orange paper and glue in place.
Cat Puppet - You'll need this template, crayons, scissors, and 5 brads. Print out and color the picture. Cut it out. Attach the arms, legs, and tail at the X with brads.
Tissue Paper Pig - Cut out simple Pig silhouette shape from card. Give children glue and box of pink pieces of tissue paper/paper to stick onto pig. Good way to teach children colours. ~ Submitted Anonymously
Sheep - Cut out simple sheep silhouette from cardboard and a length of white/black wool. Attach length of wool to sheep with sticky tape and children wind the wool around the cardboard shape to make the "wool" for the sheep. This is quite a good way of improving children's dexterity with winding wool - don't actually need that long a length of wool for children to enjoy this one. Also fits in nicely with any animal/spring themes. ~ Submitted by Julie
Peanut Sheep - After having a package delivered, my son begged me to play with the packing peanuts. I had to refuse because it makes too much mess and it could be hazardous for my 10 month old. So we came to a compromise. We made pictures with the packing peanuts instead. We ended up making several pictures with them, including a sheep that used the peanuts for the wool instead of cotton balls.
Toilet Paper Roll Cow - Print out the cow template from dltk-kids.com. Color all the cow's pieces and cut them out. Cover a toilet paper roll with the large rectangle from the template. Glue on the head, tail, legs, and bell. When you get done, the cow will look like it's sitting up on it's haunches. (My daughter was quick to point out that cows don't sit like this, but we enjoyed the craft anyway.) You can also use the color template here if you don't want to bother about coloring it.
Farm Mobile - This is a great template craft provided by Child's Play Family Daycare. Print out each of the mobile pages on heavy paper or cardstock. Cut out the images and glue them together back to back. Punch a hole where indicated. Use the barn as the top image and create your mobile in any configuration you want using yarn or string to tie the pieces together.
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