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Handmade Activities for a Farm Unit

Many children find farms and farm animals intriguing. When planning a farm unit lesson for your class, incorporate a variety of handmade farm activities for the children. Hands-on, handmade activities give the children a chance to show off their artistic skills and creativity, while learning about farms and the animals found on a farm. From games to crafts, prepare for farm activities with a few ideas and some supplies from your local craft store.
  1. Easy Activities

    • The children can start with some easy activities by coloring pictures of farm animals, such as pigs, cows, horses and chickens. Instead of printing farm animal pictures from online or using farm animal coloring books, they can use markers and crayons to freehand the animal pictures. If you do not mind a little mess, allow the children to paint the farm animal pictures. You can print pictures of farm animals for the children to use as a guide for their handmade drawings. After the children finish, have each child stand up in front of the class to tell what his animal is. For added fun, have the children make the noise their animal makes and then have then entire class repeat the animal noise.

    Memory Activities

    • Allow the children a chance to make their own animal memory match game. Give each child two index cards and assign him with a farm animal. The children will use markers or crayons to draw that animal on both index cards. After the children finish, flip all the cards face down on a table and mix them up. One child flips over two cards. If the cards match, he keeps the pair and draws again. The player with the most pairs at the end of the game wins. Ask the children to make the noise of the farm animal pair they find with each play.

    Clay Activities

    • Make handmade farm animals using clay, with farm animal pictures as a guide. Give the children several colors of clay to make their own clay farm animals. Turn the activity into a contest by awarding prizes for the best, funniest and most realistic-looking farm animals. Preserve the farm animals by using self-hardening clay. After the children finish, allow the animal to harden overnight and the children can take home their handmade clay animals.

    Song Activities

    • Teach your class a few songs about farm animals, such as the classic "Old MacDonald had a Farm." Sing "Take Me Out to the Barnyard," to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." The children will sing "Take me out to the barnyard, take me out there right now. Show me the cows, pigs and horses, too. I hear an oink and a neigh and a moo. There are chickens laying their eggs, if they don't lay it is a shame. Oh it's one, two, three eggs today, And I am glad I came."


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