□įinally, our family also took a trip to visit Harley Farms in Pescadero, CA, which specializes in goat cheeses. Īnd this was the end result! XGirl, whose work is on the right, thought it was particularly funny that she completely covered her sheep so even its face was not showing. The kids added the appropriate covering to each animal by sticking it to the clear contact paper. I then laid out a tray with feathers, cotton balls (wool), and yarn (hair). (The printables are from Happy and Blessed Home, but I’m not sure if they are available anymore since I received them by subscribing to the email list.) I then placed clear contact paper over the printables, with the sticky side facing out. To prepare, I used to painter’s tape to hang black line pictures of a horse, sheep, and chicken on our wall. I planned a sticky wall activity to get the kids thinking about the fact that different farm animals have different types of coverings, such as hair, wool, and feathers. We used it to learn about the various food and non-food products that come from chickens, cows, sheep, ducks, and pigs. I found a great printable focused on farm animals and their by-products at Joyfully Weary. They laughed so hard when the water squirt me! We didn’t have the opportunity to milk an actual cow, but we did something almost as good – we made our own cow udder from a rubber glove! I poked small holes in the finger tips with a pin, filled it with water, and then let the kids “milk” it. We also matched animals from our Safari Ltd Down on the Farm Toob, Safari Ltd Farm Animals Toob, and Safari Ltd Farm Babies Toob to the pictures. (I’ve created a Farm Animal Families printable you can grab in my shop.)įirst we matched the picture-with-label cards to the picture-only cards. We learned the names for the father, mother, and baby animals in each animal family. I printed some farm animal memory cards from my Farm animal families Note: For more kid-friendly farm activities and printables, see my Life on the Farm Unit Study page. Toward that end, we did several activities to help us achieve these objectives for our learning about farm animals. The kids will know what kinds of products we get from farm animals.The kids will know the sounds made by common farm animals.The kids will know the mother, father, and baby names for common farm animal families (e.g, hen, rooster, and chick are all part of the chicken family).The kids will be able to recognize and identify common farm animals.For our farm unit, here are just a few of the objectives I hoped to achieve while learning about farm animals: When I start a new unit with the kids, I usually plan out a few learning objectives to keep me on track with our activities. I recently completed a Life on the Farm unit with my two kids, 4-year-old QBoy and 3-year-old XGirl. See my disclosures for more information.įarm animals are a great topic of study for preschoolers. This post may contain affiliate ads at no cost to you.
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