5 Cow and Sheep Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three cow and sheep crafts that always work

Cotton ball sheepCotton balls and glue, a three alonePaper plate cowBlack spots on a white plateHandprint cowOne white handprint, thumbprint spots

5 cow and sheep crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Farm animal paper plate mask

The child decorates a paper plate with eye holes as a cow, sheep or pig and wears it for pretend play.

You need: 1 white paper plate, pink paint, pink construction paper, darker pink paper, black marker, 1 craft stick, glue

How to make it

1. You cut 2 round eye holes in the upper half of the plate.
2. Your child paints the plate pink. Let it dry.
3. Cut 2 pink triangle ears and glue them to the top rim, one on each side.
4. Cut a darker pink oval and glue it below the eye holes as the snout. Draw 2 nostril dots on it.
5. Glue the craft stick to the back at the bottom as a handle.

2. Cotton ball sheep

The child glues cotton balls all over a paper plate or card body and adds a black face and legs.

You need: 1 small white paper plate, cotton balls, black paper, 2 googly eyes, glue

How to make it

1. Your child glues cotton balls all over the plate as wool.
2. You cut a black oval for the head and 2 black rectangles for legs.
3. Glue the 2 rectangles under the bottom edge of the plate, one toward the left and one toward the right.
4. Glue the oval on one side of the plate as the head.
5. Glue the 2 googly eyes on the head.

3. Paper plate cow

The child glues or paints black spots on a white paper plate and adds ears, a pink nose and eyes.

You need: 1 small white paper plate, black construction paper, 1 pink paper oval, 2 googly eyes, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. Your child tears pieces of black paper.
2. Glue the torn pieces on the plate as spots.
3. You cut 2 black ears. Your child glues them behind the rim at the top, one on each side.
4. Glue the pink oval at the bottom of the plate, then 2 googly eyes above it.
5. You draw 2 nostril dots on the pink nose with the marker.

4. Handprint cow

The child prints a white handprint upside down on coloured paper, then adds black fingerprint spots and a face.

You need: white paint, black paint, 1 sheet of light green paper, black marker, paper plate for the paint

How to make it

1. Paint your child's palm and fingers white.
2. Press the hand on the green paper.
3. Let it dry. Wash hands, then your child dabs black fingerprint spots on the palm.
4. When dry, draw a dot eye on the thumb tip and a short tail line on the other side of the palm with the marker.

5. Toilet paper roll farm animals

The child paints cardboard tubes and adds paper heads and legs to make a cow, goat or pig that stands up.

You need: 2 toilet paper rolls, pink, white and black paint, pink and white paper, 4 googly eyes, 1 short pink pipe cleaner, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints one roll pink and one white with a few black spots. Let them dry.
2. Pig: you cut a pink circle head, 2 triangle ears and a snout. Your child glues them on, then 2 eyes.
3. Cow: cut a white circle head, 2 oval ears and a pink snout. Glue them on, then 2 eyes.
4. Curl the pipe cleaner and glue it to the pig as a tail.

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Cow and sheep crafts for 3 year olds

One of these a young three can do almost alone: Cotton ball sheep. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest.

Farm week crafts: cotton balls, black spots and a mask

Squeeze the glue inside the sheep outline and hand over the cotton balls. That is the whole craft for a three year old, and it takes ten minutes.

Black spots on white: a thumb dipped in black paint, pressed on the plate or the handprint. Wipe the thumb on a damp cloth between spots.

The tube farm animals need heads and legs cut from paper. Cut them yourself for a three year old. A five year old can cut from a drawn outline and glue them on.

An adult cuts the eye holes for the mask. Afterward the mask, the tube animals and a farm song make the afternoon.

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