| DLTK's Crafts for Kids has lots of farm animal crafts and coloring pages.
You can look through them to find cows, pigs, donkeys, horses, dogs, cats, sheep, etc. I'm not going to relist them all here.
In this section I've put together some simple templates to go with farm stories. You can use them in a number of ways:
Use the sheets as... COLORING PAGES
- simply print the black and white version of each page and allow the children to color them.
- There is more than one template piece per page (typically there are two pieces) with a dotted line oval around the piece.
- Cut around the dotted line before handing out the coloring pages
- either the children or an adult can do the cutting.
- It is up to you whether you want to cut the animals out in detail or just leave the white paper oval background. (I like to leave the
background for coloring pages or puppets and I like to cut the animals out in detail and then laminate them for felt board pieces).
- Color recognition: Focusing on color recognition and following directions while coloring the farm animals. Give them
a variety of crayons and instruct them to color:
- the cow brown,
- the horse black,
- the pig pink,
- the duck yellow,
- the goat grey,
- the barn red,
- the tractor green, etc.
Don't be shy about making a few unusual colored farm animals (blue
dog, purple mouse and orange cat) to round out your color recognition project.
- Animal sounds: As you color the pictures, talk about each animal. What sound does the animal make? What does
the animal eat? Why do farmers raise this animal? Has the child ever seen that animal?
- Printing: older children can print the color,
animal and animal sound at the bottom of their coloring pages (ex:
The BROWN COW says MOO). Or, for slightly younger children who are
starting to read but cannot yet write, have an adult write each
color/animal on a slip of paper. Allow the children to pick out the
proper slips and glue it to their coloring page -- you can color code the
slips of paper to make it easier for the children to match the words with
their animals (ex: print "The BROWN cow says moo" with brown pencil
crayon).
Use the sheets as... PUPPETS
- Either complete the black and white sheets as coloring
pages (see above)
OR
- print the color pages
- There is more than one template piece per page
(typically there are two pieces) with a dotted line oval around the piece.
- Cut around the dotted line before handing out the
coloring pages
- either the children or an adult can do the
cutting.
- It is up to you whether you want to cut the animals
out in detail or just leave the white paper oval background.
(I like to leave the background for coloring pages or puppets and I
like to cut the animals out in detail and then laminate them for
felt board pieces).
- Tape each template piece to a popsicle stick, drinking
straw or an unsharpened pencil.
- If working with a group of children, each one can be a
certain animal.
- When their part of the story comes up, they can
wiggle around the puppet and make the animal sound.
- You can have a farm animal parade... Line the
children up in the order they are mentioned in the story and let them
march around the room, waving their puppets.
- Both of these ideas work well when singing farm
themed songs like "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
- Animal sounds: As you color the pictures, talk
about each animal. What sound does the animal make? What
does the animal eat? Why do farmers raise this animal? Has
the child ever seen that animal?
- Color recognition: First, ask all the cows to
stand up and wave their puppets (or make their animal sound), then all the
pigs, etc. Then ask all the people with BROWN animals to stand up,
then all the PINK animals, etc. Some of your animals may share
a color (ex: you may have white sheep and white chickens).
Use the sheets as... FELT BOARD CHARACTERS
- Either complete the black and white sheets as coloring
pages (see above)
OR
- print the color pages
- There is more than one template piece per page
(typically there are two pieces) with a dotted line oval around the piece.
- Cut around the dotted line before handing out the
coloring pages
- either the children or an adult can do the
cutting.
- It is up to you whether you want to cut the animals
out in detail or just leave the white paper oval background.
(I like to leave the background for coloring pages or puppets and I
like to cut the animals out in detail and then laminate them for
felt board pieces).
- You can cover with clear contact paper or laminate if you want them to last longer.
- Cut out each page.
- Cut out a small piece of coarse sandpaper and tape or glue it on the back of each animal (if you laminated, it will need to be
a larger piece of sandpaper). The sandpaper will allow the characters to stick on your felt board.
- If working with a group, give each child an animal.
As you read the story, have the children bring up the appropriate
animals and put them on the board.
- Animal sounds: As you color the pictures, talk
about each animal. What sound does the animal make? What
does the animal eat? Why do farmers raise this animal? Has
the child ever seen that animal?
- Color recognition: First, ask all the cows to
stand up and put their animals on the felt board (or make their animal
sound), then all the pigs, etc. Redistribute the animals. Now
ask all the people with BROWN animals to put on their animals, then all
the PINK animals, etc. Some of your animals may share a color
(ex: you may have white sheep and white chickens).
Templates:
- NOTE:
I have tried to include images for any farm themed story or
children's song.
- Before doing work for the story you have chosen,
flip through the Templates and set aside any template pieces you
won't be needing.
- For example: you might not need the Farmer's
Wife, the Barn or the Tractor Templates if doing "Old MacDonald Had
a Farm" so just set those ones aside.
- close template window when done printing to return to this screen.
- change your page margins to zero (FILE, PAGE SETUP or
FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). See
print help for more info.
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