This is a simple but educational art activity. The child selects their favorite farm animal. This could be a horse, cow, pig, chicken, sheep or anything else they can think of. Ask the child to paint their chosen animal with poster paints. Encourage the student to consider texture and fine detail when painting their animal. Finally, ask the child to annotate their painting with facts about their selected animal or farm life in general.
On some green construction paper, have the child draw a sheep with a black pen. Additionally ask them to draw further details such as flowers, the sun and some clouds. Ask the child to color these details in with coloring pens. Finally, spread glue over the main body of the sheep and help the child to stick on several cotton balls, as to make a 3D fluffy piece of art.
Give the child a paper plate. Ask the child to paint either side of the plate pink. Allow to dry. Next, get some dark pink construction paper and ask the child to cut out two triangles. With glue, stick these triangles to the top of the plate to act as ears. Using the same piece of dark pink construction paper, tell the child to cut out a circle. Stick this circle in the center of the plate and draw on two dots with black pen to make a snout. Finally, stick two goggly eyes above the snout to complete this fun paper plate pig.
Using yellow construction paper, ask the child to cut out a circle and two thin rectangles. These will act as the farmer's face and arms. Using blue construction paper, ask the child to cut out two further thin rectangles, and one larger rectangle. These will act as the farmer's legs and body---the blue representing dungarees, common farmer-wear. Ask the child to glue these body parts together in the correct manner onto a sheet of green construction paper. Next, the child should draw further details on the farmer, such as facial features, with coloring pens. Also encourage the child to draw animals and tractors surrounding the farmer until they have completed a farm-like scene.
Trace around the child's footprint on brown construction paper, making sure to not focus too much on toe grooves so the horse's head is not lumpy. Ask the child to cut this template out. Additionally, cut a long, thin rectangle from the same brown construction paper. This will be the horse's neck. Snip along one edge of the rectangle with scissors, as to make a mane. Then, ask the child to stick these two shapes onto a sheet of blue construction paper, attaching the neck at an angle to the head and making sure the footprint template conceals the joint. Next, the child should cut two small triangles from pink construction paper, and glue to the top of the horse's head as to act as ears. Ask the child to stick two goggly eyes onto the horse, and to draw on a nose and mouth. Finally, attach a sheet of green construction paper---the edge of which has been snipped like the mane---to the base of the blue construction paper to imitate grass.
This is a simple activity, which allows preschool children to build up a farm of animals on paper using their thumbprints. On a sheet of green construction paper, allow the child to press multiple painted thumbprints onto the page. Encourage them to use different colors on their thumbs to represent different animals, for example, pink thumbprints would represent pigs, white thumbprints would represent cows, red thumbprints would represent roosters, while brown thumbprints would represent horses. With coloring pens, ask the child to add detail such as tails, legs, eyes, beaks, etc, to the animals, as well as drawing further farm details onto their paper, such as a farmer, tractor or barn.