Barefoot Chick Yellow Paint Construction Paper Crayons Glue Cornmeal Paint (giggling allowed!) the bottom of the child's foot with yellow washable liquid paint. Have him press his foot onto a sheet of construction paper. When the child's foot is clean and the paint is dry, have him use crayons to add an eye, beak, and legs to his chick. Finally have him spread glue along the bottom of the paper, then sprinkle the glue with cornmeal. Bunnies in the Grass White Paper Crayons Glue Pom-poms or cotton balls Have child color a white sheet of paper all green (scribbling is just perfect) that have them glue on 10-15 1/2" pom-poms or pieces of cotton balls you now have "Baby Bunnies Hiding in the Grass!" Clothespin Animals Let each child trace an animal with the stencil onto the tagboard and cut out animal shape. Then children clip on clothespins on the shape to make four legs. The animals will stand up. Corn Cob Painting Corn cobs Tempera paint Manila paper Paper plates Put paint in paper plates. The children dip corn cob 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. Cottony lambs Black construction Paper Cotton Balls White Chalk Have the child trace their hands on the black paper. Cut these out, placing the "hands" upside down so that the four fingers are the legs and the thumb is the head. Have the kids glue cotton balls to the "body". Use chalk or construction paper or whatever to make the eyes. Cow Sponge Painting Ahead of time, cut sponges into chunks. Clip each chunk into a spring-type clothespin. Pour Black paint into shallow dishes. Paint cow spots on large sheets of paper. Farm Collage Add corn, wheat, hay, flax seed, oats, barley, grains that farm animals eat to the art center. The children can make collages with them. Hens Construction Paper Glue Feathers Ran off copies of chickens on construction paper. Cut them out, glue feathers on. Mother - Baby Farm To help the children learn the names of some of the baby animals we create a farm on the bulletin board outside. We pair up the children and one child draws a picture of the mother animal and the other draws a picture of the baby. They then print the name of each and glue it onto the board outside. Muddy Pigs 1 Pink Construction Paper Shaving Cream Brown Paint I ran off copies of a pig on to large pink construction paper, and I or the kids (if they could), cut them out. I 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". Muddy Pigs 2 I have done an art project where you talk about why pigs roll in the mud. Then have the kids cut out pigs, and then splatter paint with brown paint to symbolize the mud. It really does not get as messy as it sounds. Muddy Pigs 3 Glue a paper pig on a larger piece of construction paper and have the children fingerpaint with chocolate pudding (Pig in the mud). Packing Popcorn Lambs   White Paper Black Paint Glue Packing Popcorn Use black paint on the hands and stamp them on a white piece of paper, then decorate. The lambs look cute with packing "popcorn" or white paper reinforcements make great "wool". Also, leftover batting or stuffing can be used. Pig Magnets Mix up a batch of clay that will harden. Add red foodcoloring to give a pink color. Allow the children to make pigs and then press a strip magnet into the back. Pig snouts Use toilet paper rolls cut in half and paint pink or glue pink construction paper around it. Punch holes in sides and tie on yarn or elastic. Pig Stick Puppets Have children paint their small paper plates pink. When dry glue on facial features cut from construction paper. Piggy Plate Glue pink cotton balls to small paper plate. Add ears, eyes , and snout from construction paper or felt. Piggy Tails Encourage the children to make their own curled piggy tails by cutting a pink circle around and around toward the middle. When finished and held up, a spiral piggy tail will stretch out into the sprial shape. Let them tape the tail to their bottoms. Also provide pink paper for piggy snouts made from cut circles with nostrils drawn on then tape it to their noses. Now assist the children in gathering the props to act out the story. Popcorn Sheep Draw a picture of a sheep. Pop popcorn in front of the children and then they can glue it onto the sheep. The Quacking Duck 1 plastic cup, preferably yellow 1 yard of thick cotton cording 1 piece of sponge 1" x 2" black permanent marker small piece of yellow felt 1. Make two holes, one inch apart, at the bottom of a plastic cup. 2. String thread through each hole and knot ends together, leaving a 3-inch tail on the ends. 3. Using the remaining tail, tie a sponge to the string. 4. Lightly dampen sponge and wrap around top of strings. 5. Pull sponge firmly down string to make a quacking noise. Sponge farm Using animal sponges have the children sponge paint some animals on a sheet of painting paper. On the top have thechildren print their have and then "had a farm" after it. At the bottom have the children print "There are_____ animals." The children then count their animals and print the number on the space. Thumbprint Pigs Have children put pink thumbprints on a piece of construction paper and make the prints into pigs. Wooly Lambs Poster Board Cotton Balls Glue Clothes Pins Wiggle Eyes Cut 6" ovals out of poster board for body, then a 2" for head. Kids glue head on to body. Next, kids glue cotton balls on to the lamb. Glue wiggle eyes on and put clothes pins on for legs. They should be able to stand up.