Farm & Farm Animals Themes

Pratt's Educational Resources

Farm    Bovine: Cow, etc.    Chicken, Hen, Rooster    Dog & Puppy    Duck    Goat    Horse    Lamb & Sheep    Pig   Spring
Find more books at the above theme pages.


Farm

  
Duck Puppet for Sale @ Amazon
Farm Puppets for Sale @ Amazon.com

Farm Books
Search for Farm Books at Amazon.com
Search for Little Red Hen/Old Macdonald Had a Farm Books at Amazon.com

         
          

Picnic Farm by Christine Morton (preschool)

The Farm Book by Golden Books (I found this at Target.)
There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly by Pam Adams 

Farm Theme Bag
You can place any of the games, puppets, books, crafts, printables, Pig Theme, etc. in a large bag inside of other bags (for each animal or story bag).

Big Red Barn Story Bag
1.    Big Red Barn or Spanish: El Gran Granero Rojo by Margaret Wise Brown
Other barn books.
2.    Sing Old MacDonald Had A Farm.  Use the animal patterns in the Babe Story Bag, The Little Red Hen Story Bag, Old MacDonald Had A Farm: Coloring pages , or any other coloring page located on this Farm Theme page. (You can make this into a flannel board song.  If you do, use my flannel board pieces and board page to make the pieces for this song.)
3.    Make a lacing activity located at: barn pattern  - Ag in the Classroom or go to: Barn Shape- Book Patterns @ eduplace.com, abcteach: Barn Shape Book, etc.  Color, laminate, and punch holes through it.  Lace yarn through the holes.

4.    Barn Craft: Use a barn pattern and have the child color, finger paint, etc. on it.
5.    Have the supplies to do the activities listed on my Old MacDonald Had A Farm page.
6.    Barn Dot-to-Dot @ Alextoys (1-10), Barn Dot-to-Dot 10-100
7.    Games
8.    Curriculum Lab Materials: Red Barn, Red Barn
9.    Peek-A-Boo Barn Picture
10.  File Folder Games: Farm Animals - Enchanted Learning
11.  Make any of the below games and place in the bag.
12.  Make other lacing cards and place in the bag.

Games
Farm Animal Games
Copy the different farm animals flashcards using coloring pages from links on this page.  (You will need to reduce them so they will fit on index cards.)

Farm Animal Concentration
Make duplicates copies of each animal.

Turn all the cards over so you don't see the pictures.  Try match the farm animal with the matching animal within two tries.  Turn the cards over if the animal was not found. Repeat until all the animals have a match.

For younger children, they can just turn all the cards over until they find a match.

Farm Animal Word Match
Make a single copy of the animal and glue it onto an index card.  Write the name of each farm animal on separate index cards.

Match the farm animal within the correct word and set it aside.

(The below games can be used as printables for children.)

Animals and Their Homes
Color and laminate these.  Place the right animal where it lives (in the zoo or on a farm).

Foods From Animals


Color and laminate these to make a matching game.

Farm Animal Family Matchup Game
Use any of these links below to make a matchup (or concentration) game.  Glue each mother and baby on separate cards.  Match the animals to the correct mother.
Different Kinds of Farm Animals
Mothers and Babies
Farm Animal Match Game
Worksheet 2A- Animal Babies

Other Related Links
abcteach: Farm Theme Unit
Coloring pages, shape books (barn), and more.
First-School's Animals - Farm has different printables and activities for this book.
Big Red Barn Story Sack: about.com

Music
My Pages
My Farm
Old MacDonald Had A Farm

Farm Music & Songs @ Preschool Education
Farmer's Name Song - Sheet Music

Farmer in the Dell

Snacks
Eat haystacks (cereal: puffins, shredded wheat or anything that looks like hay).
Drink or eat meat, etc. from various farm animals (e.g. ham, pork, chicken, eggs, milk, etc.)

My Pages
Alphabet Links & Ideas - Letter A - Z
Animal Themes
There are more farm animal links on this page.
My Farm
Old MacDonald Had A Farm Different books on this page.
Charlotte's Web

Photos and Information
Animal Image Library - Photo Search New 6/28/05
Farm Animals @ Kids Farm

Virtual Tours
Farms Around the World
Grassfarmer.com - Virtual Tours

Farm Links
Ag In The Classroom Activities, teacher resources, and more.
Alphabet Soup Farm Animals Animal sounds, quiz, match game, coloring pages, spelling game, poems, teaching ideas, links, printable and online crossword puzzle
Animals from the Farm
At The Farm Bulletin Board Ideas, Cooking Ideas, Fine Motor / Arts, Gross Motor, Language Development (including a barn song), Sign Language, Literature, Music , Pre-Academic, and Sample Lesson Plans.
Barnyard Friend Pictures of farm animals and there is a lesson plan located at the bottom of the page under "Teacher Resources".
Casey's Coloring Book Old tractors, and newer farm and construction equipment.
CyberLibrary Topics and facts about animals.
Debbie's Unit Factory July Links Farm Lessons & Links
DLTK-Kids: Farm Animal Crafts for Kids Coloring pages, crafts, e-cards, mobile, Five Little Chickens Nursery Rhyme Felt Board, Puppets, or Coloring Pages, Lamb Origami Paper Craft, and links to songs, other coloring pages, and crafts.
Education Place Activity: Animal Babies on the Farm
Enchanted Learning - The Boy in the Barn Rhyme
Farm Animals at Enchanted Learning.com Rhymes, coloring pages, crafts, and information sheets to printout. The crafts are for the pig: paper bag puppet, a mask, and a piggy bank.
Farm & Farm Animals Grade 1-3
Farm Animal Lesson Plans
Farm Animals: Grade 1
Farm Animals/Farm Life Lesson plans, Activities (make animals) & More Things
Farm Lesson Plans/Thematic Units/Activities @ The Teacher's Guide
Farm Unit Classroom Resources - North Canton Schools
First-School's Animals - Farm Printables and activities.
Fun of the Farm Unit Activities to go with different books.
High Ash Farm Photos
K-1 Farm Animal Lesson Plans
Kiddyhousse: Farm Animals for Kids Farm sound, clipart, arts & crafts, songs, books, lesson plans including worksheets, and links.  The animal include: ducks, sheeps, cows, turkey, and chickens.
On the Farm at the Zoo?
PreschoolEducation.com: Farm Theme Arts & Crafts, Dramatic, Felt Board, Games, Library, Music & Songs, Science, and Snacks
If they change the previous link, go to PreschoolEducation.comand then go to "Theme Units".
They do have an idea at Preschool Education using an outline of a sheep and place popcorn on it.  For younger children, use cotton balls instead
so they won't choke on the popcorn.
Puck's Farm Teacher Guide
Sheepusa.org: Farm Unit
Terrific Toddlers: Farm Theme
The Farm Unit Activities & lessons are based on whole language.
The books include: The Little Red Hen, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Rosie's Walk,  & The Three Little Pigs.
There are also Center Activities, and Books & Poems.
Units Links to The Farm & Other Units

Online Stories
These are stories you can read with your children or students if they do not know how to read yet.
Clickety-clack, Clickety-clack!
This story is based on: Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin.
The Farm Animals
Stop That Chicken!
The Lucky Duck

Johnny Tractor and His Pals: John Deere Storybook

Printables
Puppets: You can use most coloring pages or patterns to make puppets.  You can use paper bags or craft sticks.  If they are too large for stick puppets, reduce the size of them.
Old MacDonald Had A Farm I have other animal coloring pages on this page.
ABC Teach: Farm Unit It has Life on a Farm, Farm Animal Report, coloring pages, barn shape books with and without lines, poem form, word searches, Word Unscramble, and other printable activities.
Ag in the Classroom: Teacher Resources New 5/16/06
Animal Babies Circle the animal to the right that could be that animal's baby: horse, cow, and duck.  It has a pig and a cat as the choices.  You can use it for pictures of animals.
Animal Coloring Pages Cow, Pig, Chick, Horse, Dog, Sheep, Pig with Piglets
Animal Finger Puppets from lds.org There is a chicken and pig you could use for a farm unit.
Animal Gender @ Kiddyhouse Fill in the gender of the animals.
Animal Products @ Kiddyhouse What products do each of the animals produces.
Animals Thematic Unit PreK-1 @ Teacher Created Materials Download a free sample page Farm Animals, "Color the animals that are alike."
Arthur's B&W Agriculture Clip Art Coloring pages.
Babe - Pig in The City Fun & Games Printouts
Davis Fun Farm Sounds, Children Coloring Books, Children's Word Puzzles
eduplace- Barn Shape Book with and without lines
Farm Babies @ DLTK Match the baby with the parent.
Farm Animal Coloring Pages @ DLTK's Cat, chick, chickens, cow, and crow.
Farm Matching @ Bry-Back Manor
Farm Mobile @ childcareandbeyond or Farm Mobile if you can't get into the other link
Farm Thematic Unit (PreK-1)@ Teacher Created Materials Download a free sample page for Language Arts Farm Colors (which includes How many _?).
Farm Themed Printables Books @ DLTK
Fisher-Price Coloring Fun, Spanish, French, and other countries Animal Farm coloring page
Kids Crafts: Pig Finger Puppet
High Ash Farm Drawings Sheep, cow, pig, cat, hen, duck, and goose
I Can Show Love for Animals, Primary 2, Lesson 44 Including pictures of animals.
Kayleigh's: Can you name all the animals on the farm?
Kiddyhouse Worksheets and Coloring Pages
Kinderart: Barns Coloring Pages
Life on the Farm Skill Booklet (pdf)
Moby's Mobiles: Barn A cow, chicken, and a pig or use them separately.
Preschool Coloring Pages @ Everything Preschool
Scratch "n" Sniff Farm Coloring Book
The Barnyard Buddies Color Me Pages Goat, rabbit, bull, sheep, mule, pig, rooster,
The Little Farmers Place: Coloring Pages Cow, girl with cow, barns, pigs being fed, chicks, the words "Fall Harvest" with wheat, corn on the cob (small image), family with pumpkins, father and son with pumkins, and a tractor.
Thekidzpage.com: Farm Animals Coloring Pages Different farm animals.
The Story of Growing Grain (The Little Red Hen) Activities and printables (The Little Red Hen with pictures and the story, word search with farm words, fill in the words and match, and crossword puzzle where you fill in the answer by naming the picture.)
The Teacher's Guide Farm Lesson Plans & Themes Page
Tractor Pattern for Farm Theme
 
Farm Animal Sounds
Alextoys - Animal Talk 
Listen to the sound each animal makes in different countries.
The Virtual Farm Yard
Click on a rooster, cow, pig, and a horse and hear the sounds they make.

Online Farm Activities
Chick/Chicken
Cow
Duck
Pig
Rooster

Misc.
Children Fun Farm Sounds @ Davis Farmland
Count Your Chickens
Learn to count different animals.
The Enormous Carrot Story @ kidzclub Based from: "The Little Red Hen"
Farm Animal Sounds@ TotCity
Farm Animal (Online) Word Search @ MightyBook
Farm Animals @ kidzclub Follows the same format as: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
Farm Phonics @ Kiddyhouse Phonics Activity
Beginning sounds - interactive
Farm Hidden Pictures Game @ NIEHS
Fun With Spot: Farm
Moby's Mobiles: Barn
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Build a Neighborhood Activity: Farm
What do you call my baby? @ Sunshine Online

Readers
Farm Animals Online Crossword Puzzle @ Alphabet-Soup

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