The ideas on this page were contributed by Sue Davies, Resource Connection for Kids
Life on the Farm Cooking Activities
Pigs in a blanket- Need: hot dogs, crescent rolls/biscuits. Let each child quarter or half a hot dog (depending on chosen bread) with a plastic knife. Encourage child to roll the hot dog into a roll or biscuit and place onto their cooking sheet. Bake according to canned bread directions.
Haystack Cookies- Need: graham crackers, individual chocolate squares, marshmallows, chow mein noodles. Let each child place a chocolate square, marshmallow, and chow mein noodles onto a graham cracker. Microwave for 16 seconds. Yum!!
Pear Mouse- Need: Pear half, raisins, cherries, red string licorice. Let each child place a pear onto a small plate. Put on raisins for eyes, cherry for nose, and licorice for tail.
Pink pig sickles- Need: 2 cups plain yogurt, 12 oz. unsweetened frozen cranberry-apple juice concentrate, 2 tsp. vanilla. Let child place all items in a blender, encourage child to press blender button, or switch if necessary, and blend. Using a pouring cup, pour mixture into cups and add popsickle sticks for handles. Freeze until set!
Cow Cookies- Need: Prepared cookie dough and chocolate chips. Buy the prepared cookie dough, then let children add required ingredients (eggs, milk, etc;) Then let each child roll their dough into a ball, pound to flatten, and press in cow spots. Cook according to package directions.
Chicken muffins- Use a muffin mix and prepare according to directions; pour into round muffin tins. When cool, allow each child to place raisin eyes on for the chicken, fruit tape comb, and candy corn beak.
Little Red Hen's Bread- Find an easy to make bread that you feel comfortable with. Recreate this story by asking who will help me make this bread? Who will help me mix these ingredients? Who will help me bake it? Etc;
Popcorn Sheep Need: Popcorn and glue Directions: Draw a picture of a sheep. Pop popcorn in front of the children and have them glue it onto the sheep.
Muddy Pigs Need: Pink paper, shaving cream, brown paint Directions: Copies a pig on to large pink construction, Then cut them out. Give each kid a small cup of shaving cream, added a few drops of brown paint and they mixed it up. Then painted their pink pig with 'mud'. OR use chocolate pudding instead of the shaving cream and they eat the leftovers.
Corn Cob Painting Need: Paint, paper plates, manila paper, and a corncob Directions: Put paint on paper plates. The children dip corncob in the paint and paint designs on the manila paper. Encourage children to use the side of the cob and roll designs. Let the children dip the top of the cob in the paint and discover what designs they can make using only the top.
Thumbprint Animals Need: Construction paper, pink paint, red paint, black paint, and markers Directions: Have children put pink thumbprints on a piece of construction paper and make the prints into pigs. Use black paint for cows, red for roosters etc. Use a marker to add legs, beaks etc.
Farm Collage Need: Magazines, construction paper, markers and crayons Directions: Depending on the ages of the children, have them cut out pictures from magazines or have them already cut out for them. Find pictures that would go with farms like barns, animals, etc. Have the children glue the pictures they choose on a piece of construction paper to make a barn scene. Have them use markers or crayons to add things they would like that there was not a picture for.
Piggy Puppets Need: One Paper Plate, Pink Construction Paper, Paint, crayons, markers, glue. Directions: Have children paint or color their paper plates pink. Cut 3 in. circle, Then cut in half. This will be the ears. Also cut a two in. circle. This will be the nose. When the plate is dry (if you painted.) glue on the ears and the nose. Then add the remaining facial features.
Pig Nose What You Need: Yarn Egg Carton Black Marker Paint What You Do: Cut the egg carton bottoms (the part the eggs sit in) into its twelve sections. Let the children paint it and put the nostrils on it. Next attach string to both sides (staple or punch holes and tie) and your children have cute pig noses.
Older kids may like the New England farm village that they can print out and put together at the Ben and Jerry website (click on New England Village and then scroll down to the farm). This site also has a “virtual” cow you can make.
