Old McDonald Farm Animal Puppets

It’s Rhyme Time! Last week we had fun making teapot magnets to go with the rhyme ‘I’m a Liitle 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

We drew the faces of the farm animals with the markers first. I did a few examples, but the kids could use their own creativity to make other animals if they wished. We had a duck, dog, pig, cow, horse and funny looking sheep! Then we added the googly eyes.

   
Lastly the decorative items were added: cotton wool for the sheep, feathers for the duck etc.

   
And of course we had to do a puppet show of the rhyme, using our farm animal puppets. We just used the window of our play house and had fun “playing” the song! Such fun!

   
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