Chicken Farm Activities

Farm Activities

• A field trip to a local farm will provide children with an interactive, hands-on experience with farm animals. Talk with local farmers to find out if they allow visitors or even all-day field trips. The children can see and possibly touch chickens. Another idea if you cannot locate a farm is a petting zoo. Many petting zoos will come to you or you can go to them. Children can touch and pet chickens at a petting zoo. Take a camera to snap pictures of each child petting a chicken.

Chicken Crafts

• Children can make a peek-a-boo barn with chickens. Print a picture of a red barn and have the children cut the doors so they will open and close. Have them tape the barn on a piece of card stock and open the doors. Print small pictures of chickens and tape them inside the barn doors. They can open the doors to see the chickens and close the doors back.

  For another craft, the children can make baby chickens. Ask the children to glue a small yellow craft pompom on top of a larger yellow pompom. Use orange craft foam to make the feet and beak, and glue on googly eyes.

Scavenger Hunt Activities

• Fill white Easter eggs with yellow craft pompoms to represent egg yolks. Hide the eggs all over the room or outside to create an "egg-cellent hunt." Put different amounts of pompoms in each egg. After the children find all the eggs, have them count the yolks. The child who has the most egg yolks wins the game. Alternatively, play this game in teams. The team who finds the most yolks wins the game. For added fun, place some "instant winner" stickers inside a couple of the eggs and award a small prize to each child who finds one.

Other Activities

• Another chicken activity is a chicken contest to see who can act and sound like a chicken. Award prizes for the best, funniest and scariest chickens. Put a twist on classic games by having the children play a game of "hot chicken" with a rubber chicken instead of a "hot potato," or "pin the beak on the chicken" instead of "pin the tail on the donkey." Make a memory game by printing pictures of chickens (two of each). Place the pictures face down on a table and have the children play a game of memory. The child who finds the most matches wins the game.