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Muddy Pigs added
8-28-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Pink
paper, shaving cream, brown paint
Directions:
Copies a pig on to large pink construction, Then cut them out. Give
each kid a small cup of shaving cream, added a few drops of brown
paint and they mixed it up. Then painted their pink pig with 'mud'.
Popcorn Sheep
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Popcorn and glue
Directions:
Draw a picture of a sheep. Pop popcorn in front of the
children and have them glue it onto the sheep.
Bird Seed Collage
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need: Corn,
bird seed, wheat, hay, flax seed, oats, barley, grains, glue, paper
towel
Directions:
Get the children to put glue on the outside of paper towel
roll all the way around and then they can roll it, into bird seed.
The teacher then can punch holes on
both sides then use string or yarn to make a hanger. Add corn, wheat,
hay, flax seed, oats, barley, grains that farm animals eat to the art
center. The children can make collages with them.
Corn Cob Painting
added 11-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Paint, paper plates, manila paper, and a corncob
Directions:
Put paint on paper plates. The children dip corn cob in the paint and
paint designs on the manila paper. Encourage children to use the side
of the cob and roll designs. Let the children dip the top of the cob in the
paint and discover what designs they can make using only the top.
Thumbprint Animals
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Construction paper, pink paint, red paint, black paint, and markers
Directions:
Have children put pink thumbprints on a piece of construction paper
and make the prints into pigs. Use black paint for cows, red for
roosters etc. Use a marker to add legs, beaks etc.
Sponge Paint Farm Animals
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need: Sponges,
clothespins, black paint, paper, animal stencils
Directions:
Ahead of time, cut sponges into chunks. Clip each chunk into a
spring- type clothespin. Pour Black paint into shallow dishes. Paint
cow spots on large sheets of paper. Let each child trace an animal
with the stencil onto the tagboard and cut out animal shape. Then
children clip on clothespins on the shape to make four legs. The
animals will stand up.
Pop Up Corn
added 11-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Each child will need a craft stick, a 6-ounce or larger paper cup, a
Styrofoam meat tray with a textured surface, paint, glue, and green
construction paper.
Directions:
Use construction paper and cut ears of corn out of the Styrofoam for
each child. Ask the children to paint their ears of corn yellow and
their craft stick green. Next, glue the ears of corn and leaves to
the craft stick as illustrated. When these have dried thoroughly, cut
a small slit in the bottom of the paper cup for the craft stick
to fit into snugly. The children may then surprise friends by having
them look into the cups only to see an ear of corn pop right up from
it. Another option would be to make flowers rather than ears of corn.
Seedy Collage
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Large piece of green construction paper, glue, and several types of
inexpensive dried seeds and beans, such as popcorn, lima beans, pinto
beans, and navy beans.
Directions:
Ask the children to squeeze out a long stripe of glue along the length
of their paper. Have them spread the glue slightly, keeping the long
thin shape, and sprinkle one type of seed along the glue stripe. They
should make two or three more stripes of glue, adding different types
of seeds to each. The finished collage should remind one of the rows of
seeds planted in a garden.
Milk Carton Barn
added 11-9-98
Original Author Unknown
Need:
a ½- or I-pint cardboard milk carton, red paint, a paintbrush, and
black paint or marker.
Directions:
The teacher will need a box cutter or craft knife. Have the child
paint the entire milk carton with red paint. After it has dried, use
the box cutter to cut a door and window in the carton. When the
window and door are cut, the child may complete the barn by painting
the roof black and outlining the door and window in black. When completely
dry, the child may use the barn as a home for small plastic farm
animals.
Barnyard Mural added
11-9-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
A long sheet of butcher paper, paint, a paintbrush for each child,
markers or crayons, glue, and rice.
Directions: Draw a barn and the surrounding
barnyard on the butcher paper. Paint the children's palms the color of
their choice, and ask them to press it onto the mural in the
appropriate area. Quickly wash the paint off the children's hands. When
dry, ask the children to draw a face and feet onto each handprint, transforming
it into a rooster or a turkey.
Muddy Pigs
added 4-2-99Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Pink paper, brown paint
Directions:
Cut large pig shapes out of pink paper. Give each child a pig shape
with a small amount of brown fingerpaint in the center of it. Let the
children cover their pig with the brown fingerpaint "mud."
Straw Painting
added 4-2-99
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Straw, Paint
Directions:
Have the children use pieces of straw for paintbrushes. Have
them use different colors and see how they can paint with it and make
it look different. When the paintings are finished, have them add the
pieces of straw to their work for a different look.
Farm Collage
added 4-2-99
Original Author Unknown
Need: Magazines,
construction paper, markers and crayons
Directions:
Depending on the ages of the children, have them cut out pictures
from magazines or have them already cut out for them. Find pictures
that would go with farms like barns, animals, etc. Have the children
glue the pictures they choose on a piece of construction paper to
make a barn scene. Have them use markers or crayons to add things
they would like that there was not a picture for.
Piggy Puppets
added 5-5-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
One Paper Plate, Pink Construction Paper, Paint, crayons, markers,
glue.
Directions:
Have children paint or color their paper plates pink. Cut 3 in.
circle, Then cut in half. This will be the ears. Also cut a two in.
circle. This will be the nose. When the plate is dry (if you
painted.) glue on the ears and the nose. Then add the remaining
facial features.
Pig Snout
added
5-29-99
Original Author Unknown
Need: Toilet
paper roll. pink paint, pink paper, yarn or elastic, and
glue
Directions: Make pig snouts from toilet paper
rolls cut in half and paint pink or glue pink construction paper
around it. Punch holes in sides and tie on yarn or elastic.
Animal Tracks
added 5-29-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need: plastic
animals, paint and paper
Directions:
Get some plastic animals and dip their feet into paint then place them
onto colored paper or wax paper.
Buttermilk Chalk Picture
added 5-29-99
Original Author Unknown
Need:
Cardboard, brush, butter milk, and chalk
Directions:
Brush a piece of cardboard with 2 to 3 tablespoons of buttermilk or
dip chalk in buttermilk. Create designs using colored chalk.
The Quacking Duck
added 5-29-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need: 1
plastic cup, preferably yellow, 1 yard of thick cotton cording, 1 piece of
sponge 1” x 2”, black permanent marker, small piece of yellow felt
Directions:
1. Make two holes, one inch apart, at the bottom of a plastic cup.
2. String thread through each hole and knot ends together, leaving a
3-inch tail on the ends.
3. Using the remaining tail, tie a sponge to the string.
4. Lightly dampen sponge and wrap around top of strings.
5. Pull sponge firmly down string to make a quacking noise.
Farm Weaving Idea
added 3-06-01 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Chicken
Wire, tape, natural raffia, gingham ribbon, old blue jeans etc..
Directions: Cut
squares of small-holed chicken wire. Put masking tape around the
sharp edges. Set out assorted lengths of natural raffia, gingham ribbons
and narrow
strips ripped from old blue jeans. The children weave them in and
out of the holes.
Hand Horses
added 3-06-01 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Brown
paint, paper, brown marker
Directions: Take
brown paint and paint a child's hand. Then press the hand down on
paper and with fingers pointing down. The fingers are the legs and the
thumb is the head. Draw the mane and hoofs and eyes and tail and you have
handprint horses.
Lamb
added 2-10-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Paper, glue, cotton, scissors
Directions: Cut a lamb shaped piece out of
black construction paper.
Glue onto white paper.
Have the kids draw in grass, sun , sky, barn , whatever they want.
Then glue cotton balls on the lamb to make him wooly.
Paper
Plate Pig
added 2-10-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Paper plate, pink crayon, pink paper, glue, markers
Directions:
Have children color a paper plate pink. Cut out two ears out of pink
construction paper (triangles) and glue them onto the top of a paper plate.
They can draw on eyes and nose.
Sheep
added 2-10-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Black paper, white paper, white crayon,
hole reinforcements, scissors
Directions: Trace each child’s hand onto
black paper using a white crayon. (Fingers spread very little, thumb
spread out as far as possible) Cut out the hands. Glue the cut out hand
onto white paper. (Finger facing down. Fingers are the feet and the thumb
is the head and neck.) Now cover the body of the sheep with the sticky
hole reinforcements to give it a curly woolly look. Draw on an eye with
the white crayon. Then draw grass, etc… on the background.
Cow
Prints
added 3-24-03 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Black paper, white paper, white crayon,
hole reinforcements, scissors
Directions:
Ahead
of time, cut sponges into chunks. Clip each chunk into a spring-type
clothespin. Pour Black paint into shallow dishes. Paint cow spots on large
sheets of paper. Later after the paint dries you can cut the paper into
the shape of a cow if so desired.
Pig
Faces
added 5-5-03 Submitted
by:
Laura
Knittel
Need: pink paint, egg carton, elastic
string, pink puff balls, scissors
Directions:
Take
an egg carton and cut the sections out. Let the kids paint them pink. When
they dried the adult can poke little holes in the sides and then put
elastic string through the holes making sure it fit the child's head. Give
each child 2 pink puff balls and have them glue them on so that it looked
like a pigs nose. Also make pig ears to go along.
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