Pre-school activity: Farm Animals with Goat Printable

Farm Animals: A classic Preschool lesson topic!

For this lesson we read

Fluffy Chick Leap Frog Lift-a-Flap (love that book!)

At circle time, I pulled out a big bucket of toy animals and we organized them into two piles:

Farm animals (cows, sheep, goats) and not farm animals (jungle frogs, parrots, elephants, etc)

To cover art and math, we assembled this goat project:

To do this goat project yourself, you can use

the following printables (click on the images to enlarge and print)

(recognize this goat face from anywhere?)

-I originally made the body and legs from scratch:

We cut out the goat's heads and colored them.

To cover a math activity, I threw all the legs into a big pile and asked the kids to pull out one of each number. Then I had the kids put the legs in numerical order and paste them to their goats!

We also practiced writing our names on the goat bodies.

After our goat activity, I took the kids on an imaginary tour around a farm outside. I had strategically placed a few fresh oranges in the backyard and as we pet the pretend goats and sheep, we also "picked" fresh oranges and brought them back inside for a snack ;)

Lesson Targets

Art: Coloring and Gluing

Math: Shapes and Numbering

Organizational Skills: Categorizing farm animals

Fine Motor skills: Cutting and gluing

Outdoor/Gross-motor skills: Walking around outside, visiting an imaginary farm.

Language Development: Reading Fluffy Chick and practicing writing our names

Science: Learning how to make fresh orange juice by pressing oranges on a juicer