Farm Crafts
Red Barn - This craft would be too difficult to do in a classroom setting unless you created one for the entire class to illustrate a book, story, or theme -- but it was great fun to do at home with the kids. You simply print it, cut it out, and glue it together according to the directions to get a three dimensional red barn. In addition, you can also add a cow with this template.
Action Toy Cow - This cow craft might be a little complicated for younger children to do without some help. It's a paper cow that you cut out and glue together. Once assembled, you gently push and pull the cow's tail to make it's head bob. I did this one with my five year old and she loved it. This template is provided by Ben & Jerry's.
Soda Bottle Piggy Bank - We just did a Farm unit at our center and a really cute profect that we did was to make a piggy bank. We used empty plastic water bottles and 20 oz. soda bottles. We used beads and glued them on for the legs and a piece of pink pipe-cleaner curled and glued it on for the tail. We glued on large wiggle eyes and cut a slit for the coins on the top edge. Use a permanant black marker to draw the nostrils on the bottle cap. Quarters will not come out through the spout.You might give this as an item of interest. ~ Submitted Anonymously
Farm Recipes
Old MacDonald's Farm Crackers - Tint frosting green to make grass and spread it onto a graham cracker. Use the frosting to glue together smaller pieces of graham cracker to make a fence around the first cracker. Put animal crackers inside the fence and you have a tasty farm.
Haystacks - Melt some butterscotch and/or chocolate chips in the microwave. Add chow mein noodles and mix until noodles are well coated. Scoop a spoonful out and put on wax paper and form into a little haystack. Let cool completely.
Pigs in a Blanket - Wrap a crecent roll around a hotdog and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes. The breakfast version is to wrap a pancake around a link sausage and serve.
Chicken Feed - Mix together cereal, sunflower seeds(the shelled kind), popcorn, raisins, M & M's, or what ever else your child likes and have it for a snack. You could also use ready-made trail mix.
Pig Slop< - Mix chocolate pudding with a variety of other things like fruit, nuts, candy, etc. Talk to your child about what pig slop is and how pigs eat anything, and then serve them some pig slop for dessert.
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