Old McDonald Farm Animal Puppets

Make Old McDonald farm animal puppets with your kids and sing and play along with the rhyme “Old McDonald had a farm”!

It’s Rhyme Time! Last week we had fun making teapot magnets to go with the rhyme ‘I’m a Little Teapot”.  This week we have the rhyme ‘Old McDonald’, and who doesn’t love that rhyme? We made cute farm animal puppets from wooden picnic spoons:

What you need:

• Wooden spoons (It can be the picnic ones or regular wooden spoons, or even popsicle sticks with a circle attached)
• markers
• googly eyes
• other decorative items

How to make puppets:

Draw the faces of the farm animals with the markers first. If necessary look at a few pictures of farm animals first as examples, but the kids could use their own creativity to make any farm animals. We had a duck, dog, pig, cow, horse and funny-looking sheep! Add the googly eyes.

  
Lastly, add decorative items such as cotton wool for the sheep, feathers for the duck etc.

  
Make a puppet show singing the rhyme and use your farm animal puppets to play out the rhyme. We used the window of our playhouse and had fun “playing” the song!

Such a fun farm animals craft that goes well with the rhyme “Old McDonald had a farm”!

  
Here are some more fun activities that will go along the rhyme a treat:

Farm Peg Animals by Danya Banya

Toilet Paper Roll Farm Animals by Multicraftingmummy 

Old McDonald Story Stones by Messy Little Monster

Old McDonald Sensory Play by Adventures of Adam