Cow Crafts and Learning Activities for Kids

Cow Crafts and Learning
Activities for Kids

How to Make Crafts and Activities Relating to Cows Including: Paper Lunch Bag Cow Puppet, Moonstruck - The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon, Cow Beanbag, "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon" Paper Plate Craft

Paper Lunch Bag Cow Puppet

What you will need: White paper lunch bags, white typing paper, tape, glue sticks, and black crayons.

How to make a paper lunch bag cow puppet:

1. Before class print out the Cow Head Pattern and the Cow Leg Pattern and make copies. (Printing Problems?)

2. Cut out the patterns.

3. In class show the children how to fold down the corners of the bottom of the bag and tape them down. Glue the cows head onto the bottom of the bag. Color the tongue and glue it under the folded bottom of the bag. Glue the legs to the back of the bag and color spots on the cow.

See the Puppet Page for more animal puppets.

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Moonstruck - The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon

It seems that Mother Goose only told part of the story of the cow jumping over the moon. Your children will be pleasantly surprised to hear the "whole" story told by a horse who taught the first cow how to jump over the moon.

Not only is this story endearing, but it also teaches great lessons about not giving up, believing in yourself even when no one else does, and setting goals and accomplishing them one at a time in order to fulfill your dreams.

Use the beanbag cow craft below to help your children with these important lessons.

Cow Beanbag Craft

This beanbag was created to go with the story "Moonstruck - The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon" (above). When your child is having a difficult time with his studies or other activity read him the story. Discuss how the cow didn't give up even when no one believed in him.

Use the cow beanbag as an incentive for your child to accomplish a goal. For example, if he is having a difficult time completing a worksheet, tell him that every time he completes ten problems he gets to try and throw the cow over the moon five times. The moon can be cut from card stock or cardboard and hung from the ceiling.

What you will need: Two socks, one with a different color toe (optional), pink felt, small black eyes, grey acrylic paint, low temp glue gun, polyester fiberfill, rice, and pink paint if you don't have a sock with a different color toe.

How to make a cow beanbag:

1. Cut the toe off one sock about 4 1/2" from the end to make the head. Stuff the head with fiberfill. Close the head by gluing the sides of the cut end together and then gluing the top and bottom of the cut ends end closed. See the picture to the right.

2. To make the body lay another sock flat so that the heal of the sock is on top. Cut the toe off about 5" from the center of the heal. Cut a slit about 3" up the center of that cut end to make the front legs. Cut the cuff end of the sock off about 4" from the center of the heal and cut a slit about 2" to make the back legs. See the diagram below.

3. Turn the sock inside out and sew around the legs leaving about one inch open in the middle of the back legs. Turn the sock right-side out through the opening.

4. Fill the legs with rice and the body with poly-fil. Sew the hole closed.

5. Glue the head to the body as shown in the diagram using a low temp glue gun.

6. Cut ears from pink felt and glue them to the head near the folds as shown in the head diagram above.

7. To make the eye sockets insert a threaded needle into the place where you want one eye and then bring it back out where you want the other. Pull the thread to make a slight indent and tie it. Glue the eyes to the indents. Do the same thing to make the nostrils.

8. To finish paint grey spots on the body; paint the hooves and the inside of the ears grey.

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"The Cow Jumped Over the Moon" Paper Plate Craft

What you will need: Two dinner-sized paper plates, card stock (Heavy Paper), crayons or markers, and glue.

How to make a cow jumped over the moon paper plate:

1. Draw a cow's head, legs and tail onto card stock or white construction paper. (A pattern for this craft is available to members of Danielle's Place.)

2. Cut out the patterns and color them.

3. Fold a paper plate in half to make the cows body. Glue the legs, head and tail onto the paper plate as shown.

3. Fold the other paper plate in half and cut the halves apart on the folded line. Place the two halves together top to top and glue them together around the rim of the plate. Cut out a face shape and glue the plates together just around the edge of the face.

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Standing Cow

This craft goes along with the lesson on Joseph and Pharaoh's dream.

What you will need: empty pop cans, card stock, crayons, tape, glue, and scissors

How to make:

1. Before class print out the pattern (Large file or small file), one for each child. If your children are to young to cut well or you don't have much time, cut out the patterns before class.Cut paper big enough to fit around the pop cans and go over the edges of the can. (Printing Problems?)

2. In class have the children color the cows and the paper that will be go around the can, cut them out and glue or tape them to the can.

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