Funny Farmers

Okay so I took 3 quick pictures...

Then I printed them out on fast print, cut the heads out and pre-glued them to the construction paper.

Then I pre-cut outfits and let them glue their own outfit to the farmer...including pitch fork and arms and hands and feet...

Here they are...

Then I ran all of the sheets through the laminator and here is the book...

All of these pages have touchy feeley things on them.  They turned out pretty cute. I hope you all liked Farm Theme, as much as we did!

Scratched Cows

We talked about our Farm Trip.

And what the farmer told us about what cows do for us.  We had a glass of milk and proceeded with our project! :)

I used this as our outline for the cow.  Cut it out.

Gave the kids forks so we could give the cows a scratched texture, because the farmer said that their skin was like feeling scratchy fabric. So paint it brown and then scratch it up with forks.

Here it is - I over edited it so you could see it.

We then added hay and a word strip so we wouldn't forget what the farmer told us about cows.

If you are guessing that we are making a book about the Farm...YOU ARE RIGHT!

6 Little Ducks

Six Little Ducks

Six little ducks that I once knew

Fat ones, skinny ones, fair ones, too

But the one little duck with the feather on his back

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Down to the river they would go

Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, to and fro

But the one little duck with the feather on his back

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Back from the river they would come

Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, ho, hum, hum

But the one little duck with the feather on his back

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack

He led the others with a quack, quack, quack.

So another song, but fun to make!

Start by sponge painting yellow over the entire piece of construction paper.

K was a pro! :)

Let them dry and then cut a duck shape out. Glue it to some water, then let the kids add beaks and of course FEATHERS!

Cute!

Old MacDonald

So I found these in a book, and copied them and colored them.  I have written to the Author and Illustrator and they said I can't scan them in for you but if you email me I can send them to you that way.

I then covered them in packing tape and hot glued sticks to the back.

Then we sang the song.

It was fun.

Then they played themselves.

This is how I store them.

I bought these for 33 cents at Target on clearance and then put them in a notebook for the kids to flip through and decide what they want to play with.

If you want a copy email me at valeriewitte@yahoo.com I will send them right away.

Chickens and Chick-Hens

Sorry about the absence, my best friends father died and we have been hosts to their family for the entire week!

Not to mention my baby turned one! CRAZY! I have a 3 year old, a 2 year old and now a 1 year old.  I am surrounded by Toddlers and I wouldn't want it any other way! :)

I will be posting every day because we need to catch up!

Don't forget the Pigs from Pink Week, they are part of the farm week.

So now on to the Chickens.

Here is the link to the Print Out I printed out 8 as 3x5 prints so they were smaller.

Here is the link to The Little Red Hen

We read The Little Red Hen and then colored the hens/chick-hens. LOL

We identified parts of a chicken, and then cut out some hay.

Then glued our tie-dye chickens...

I lost the final picture it is on the other computer or my husbands laptop, because it certainly isn't on this laptop.  I will find it but this is the preliminary look.  It says something like "These two chickens say bock bock, they lay their eggs in the hay." We added eggs to the picture as well.  Picture it in your minds. :)

Day on the Farm

For REAL!

We went to a local Dairy supplier...we get out milk delivered round these parts!

They had an open petting farm for kids to see and feed animals with.

In Colorado you can go to White Fence Farms, or Karl's Dairy like we did. Longmont Dairy doesn't do tours anymore otherwise we would have gone there since that is who delivers our milk.

the best thing about this little trip is that it was FREE! Contact your local Dairys or 

Farms and see if you can tour today!

Scrapped Farms

This is a really fun activity if you just want to get out aggression! LOL

First tear up a bunch of red paper.

L loved this. B was trying to keep it neat...I wonder where she gets it.

More tearing.

With the glue make a barn shape and then add the torn paper.

See?

I laminated it and then we added some grass and of course the wood slats.

Cute right?

We talked about farms and barns and what they do and who lives in them.

It was really neat to hear what they were coming up with. L was set on telling me that puppies live on a farm.  I think she is right!

Handprint Roosters

This week and next is Farm Week.

We started with reading about farms and what they do.

The first thing my son realized was that the farm day cannot begin without the rooster waking up the farmers and animals, so that is what we made first!

This is J she is 1 and was visiting us for the day.  She was so cute and didn't care that I was painting her hand.

until I got to her fingers and she thought it was totally weird - 

but she was surprisingly cool about the whole thing.

Then we stamped it and I repeated it with the next 4 kids.

We made rooster sounds and then played a running game.

Cut them out and then glued a fence and a sun on the page.

J need a little help and actually preferred to watch on this one. Here is the end result.

It was great because each kids rooster looked so different!

Happy cock-a-doodle dooing!