Farm Animal Lesson Plan and Theme Unit
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 Printable color posters
Print out full letter size cartoon farm animal picture flashcards to hang on the wall. 16 animal printouts include a red barn house, a tractor, and a big green tree on the farm yard.
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 Farm animal writing paper
Free printable full letter size farm animals theme stationery and border paper with primary line or wide regular line for young children.
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Farm animals in Chinese 
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Learn and label in Chinese.
- Match animals to their names in Chinese.
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 Farm animal words
Learn vocabulary word lists. correct the spelling of the farm animals words
- Fill in the missing letters
- exercise 2
- scramble games
- ABC Order Worksheet
Write farm words in Alphabetical order.
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 Reading worksheets
What starts with the sound of H?
Recognize the beginning sound of the farm animal names
What does not belong?
Group things together. Animal categories worksheet for kids.
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 Kids writing worksheets
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Write sentenses about each picture
- Write a short story about the farmyard scene
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 Free math worksheets
Fun farm animal theme word problems,picture addition and subtraction, size and weight measurement,patterns, and comparing worksheets for students at kindergarten to 1st grade math level.
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 Count farm animals counting worksheet and 10
- up to 5
- up to 5 2
- Count up to 10
- up to 10
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 Color by number activity
- Color number 3
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Color number 4
- Connect the dots and color the page
A jumping high cow boy
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 Paper craft projects
Make cup farm animals or cut bunny shape out of paper. Easy arts and crafts activities.
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 Learn to draw farm animals
Step by step learn how to draw rabbit, dragonfly, butterfly, chickens.
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- Cut and paste farm animals
Cut the farm animals pictures and glue them in front of the house. Help kids to build up motor skills.
- Cut and glue to learn positional words
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- Create a mini word book
Print out 6 writing pages, folder into 2, and then bind them together to make your own farm animal booklet.
- Farm animal shape book templates
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Farm Animals words list
bull,calf,cat,chicken,colt,cow, donkey, duck,goat,goose,hen,horse,lamb,pig,rooster,sheep,turkey. Print out the flash cards and cut into individual card. Ask your preschoolers to name some farm animals they know and teach them how to read and write farm animal names.
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Baby Animal Match Up
- 2 pages activity sheets to Match the baby animal to the mommy
Teach preschoolers about farm animal mother and farm animal babies words. Some examples preschool teachers can use are: goat (kid, billy), horse (foal), cow (calf), dog (kit),sheep (lamb), cat (kitten), rabbit (bunny).
Teachers can print out 16 picture cards and a table to show farm animal names, groups, and their babies. 
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Farm Animal Sort
Print out animal pictures. Ask preschoolers to sort animals by size, or by speed they move, or by their favorite animals. Ask preschoolers which farm animal is their favorite one, and ask why.
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Farm animals games
Preschool teachers can print these farm animals pictures and ask your preschooers to look at these farm animals silhouette, or the farm animals head images to guess who they are. Fun games to help your preschoolers learn farm animals.
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Farm animals opposite words games
Preschool teachers can print this picture activities sheet and ask your preschooers to look at pictures and learn opposite words means like small and big, fast and slow, etc.
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Fun facts about farm animals
Teach preschoolers about true color of farm animals, food farm animals eat, farm animals location of origin and purpose. Print this sheet out
Cat
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Near East
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Hunting, companionship
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Chicken
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India and Southeast Asia
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Meat, eggs
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Dog
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East Asia
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Hunting, transportation, companionship
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Donkey
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Egypt
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Transportation
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Duck
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China
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Meat, eggs
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Goose
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Egypt
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Feather, meat, eggs
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Honey bee
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Multiple places
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honey
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Horse
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Hungary Mongolia
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transportation, meat, milk
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Pig
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Near East, China
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meat
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Sheep
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Southwest Asia
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Wool, meat, milk
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Turkey
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Mexico, United States
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Feather, meat, eggs
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Field Trip
Go to a local farm animals site or a petting animals zoo. Ask preschooers to look at the animals, ask them to pat the animals softly, touch farm animals feather, look at how farm animals walk, and how they eat.
- Songs, Poems, and Books
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Baa Baa black sheep. Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir
Three bags full;
One for the master,
One for the dame. And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane
- Old McDonald
Old McDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had a pig
E-I-E-I-O
With an oink oink here
And an oink oink there. Here an oink, there an oink
Everywhere an oink oink
Old McDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O
- Mary had a Little Lamb
Little lamb, Little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
Mary went Mary went
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day,
School one day, School one day,
It followed her to school one day,
Which was against the rule.
It made the children laugh and play
laugh and play laugh and play
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.
- This Little Pig Went to Market
This Little Pig went to market
This little pig stayed home
This little pig had roast beef
This little pig had none.
And this little pig went wah wah wah all the way home
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- Bingo
There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-o!
There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap)-I-N-G-O!
(Clap)-I-N-G-O!
(Clap)-I-N-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-o!
There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap, clap)-N-G-O!
(Clap, clap)-N-G-O!
(Clap, clap)-N-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-o!
There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap, clap, clap)-G-O!
(Clap, clap, clap)-G-O!
(Clap, clap, clap)-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-o!
There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap, clap, clap, clap)-O!
(Clap, clap, clap, clap)-O!
(Clap, clap, clap, clap)-O!
And Bingo was his name-o!
There was a farmer had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)
(Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)
(Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)
And Bingo was his name-o!
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This lesson plan will help young children learn what animals live on a farm and some fun facts about the farm animals. Also there are plenty high quality worksheets for students to learn read and write popular farm animal names like sheep,pig,horse, chicken, goat, duck, turkey, dog, cat, rooster, etc, practice math operations, and English language arts activities.
Also ideas for teachers to lead simple craft projects: for example, for kids to use some used paper cups, preschool teachers can draw on the cups, and ask preschoolers to stick feather or paper to make cute farm animals, like pig, cat, and rabbit.Or use a piece of white paper or any color paper you like, folded the paper,draw a rabbit shape on paper, cut the bunny shape out, and you will get 2 cute bunnies.
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