The Farm

We decided to make a little farm to go along with our farm theme this week.

I took several containers of playdough and spread them out on a tray.  The one green doesn’t quite match the others… so let’s just pretend the grass on the farm isn’t quite perfect.  And Hailey decided the farm needed a little pond- so we added some blue.

We made a fence using little popsicle sticks and stuck them together using playdough.  Then we added some farm animals.

Hailey played with this for a looooong time!

Cute, Messy, Muddy Pig

Our theme for this week is farm animals and today we made a cute little pig.

I had a cute pig printable in one of my Mailbox magazines that I used, but you can use any pig printable you can find and just copy it onto pink paper.  Hailey glued the pig to a piece of construction paper.

Then she mixed equal parts of shaving cream and glue.

Then we added some brown paint to make it look like mud.  (It actually looked kind of like chocolate moose and looked pretty tasty although it smelled like shaving cream so I wasn’t tempted to eat it.)

Hailey added the mud to the pig.

The finished pig- the paint dried puffy.

Fluffy Little Chick

This week our theme is going to be Farm Animals.  Today we made a cute little chick.

First I put some yellow paint in a bag and added some cotton balls.  Hailey shook the bag to spread the paint around.

Then she squished and squeezed to make sure the paint was spread.

Hailey taped orange pipe cleaners on the back of a yellow oval.

Then she put glue all over the front of the oval.

Hailey put her yellow cotton on the oval.

Then she added some eyes

and a beak.

The finished fluffy little chick.

The Horse That Doesn’t Look Like a Horse

So this horse looked a lot cuter inside my head then it did when we actually made it.  But it was still fun.

First Hailey painted four craft sticks brown.

We used 2 of those little cardboard planters.

I cut about 1/3 off of one of the planters.  Hailey added eyes and a mane.  We didn’t have any brown feathers for the mane so Hailey decided she wanted a rainbow mane of her horse.

Hailey added a brown pipe cleaner to the larger cardboard planter for a tail.

Then we glued the smaller one on top of the bigger one.

We also added ears and once the craft sticks were dry, we added those as legs.  So it ended up not looking much like a horse… maybe more like a cat of dog.  But Hailey had fun.

Hailey reading one of her horse books to a couple of her dolls.

Tags: horses, preschool horse activity