This document outlines animal-themed activities for children. It includes sections on pets, farm animals, zoo animals, and a cow puppet craft. The pet activities involve identifying pets through pictures and a game of hot potato. The farm animal activities include naming and identifying farm animals through pictures and a coloring book. The zoo animal activities have the children name and recall zoo animals using pictures and a memory game. The cow puppet craft has the children make a paper plate cow by painting and gluing on features. A final collage activity requires distinguishing animals by type. All activities aim to teach children animal names and identification.

1. Animal Activities
By: María del Mar Bolaños

2. Pets
• General objective: the child will be able to recognize different
pets
Objectives: Contents: Activity Materials Time
The child will be able to name different Dog, Cat, Bird, Pictures cards 10mins
pets Fish, Turtle
The child will be able to recognize different Dog, Cat, Bird, Hot Potatoes Ball 10mins
pets Fish, Turtle with pet names Radio
Cards
Music
• Activity: the children will sit in a circle to play hot potatoes,
when the music stops, the teacher will ask the students with
the ball to act out a phrase using the animal she is showing.
Ex. bark like a dog, move like a turtle, sing like a bird, make a
fish face

3. Farm Animals
• General Objective: the child will be able to identify different
farm animals
Objectives: Contents: Activity: Materials: Time
The child will be able to name different farm Horse, cow, sheep, Pictures Cards 10mins
animals goats, pig, turkey,
geese, ducks, hens,
rooster
The child will be able to identify different Horse, cow, sheep, Farm Animal Book Coloring 30mins
farm animals goats, pig, turkey, pencils
geese, ducks, hens, Pencils
rooster Print outs
• Activity: The children will cut out each circle. Staple the pages
together at the left, then fill in the right number and color the
pages. There is also room for the student to write the words
directly under the words.

4. Zoo Animals
• General Objective: the children will be able to recall different
zoo animals
Objective: Contents: Activity: Materials: Time:
The child will be able to name different zoo Giraffe, bear, tiger, pictures cards 10mins
animals seal, rhino,
elephant, zebra,
peacock, snake,
monkey
the children will be able to recall different Giraffe, bear, tiger, Memory Game Print outs 20mins
zoo animals seal, rhino, Scissors
elephant, zebra, Coloring
peacock, snake, pencils
monkey
• Activity: The children will color the print outs, they will cut
each box and with a partner play the memory game

5. Cow Puppet
• General Objective: the child will be able to reproduce a cow
Objective: Contents Activity: Material: Time:
the child will be able to reproduce a cow Cow, Hair, horns, Paper Plate Cow Brown paint 40mins
ears, eyebrows, Paper plate
eyelashes, mouth Coloring
pencils
Scissors
Glue
printouts
• Activity: the children will paint the paper plate brown, they
will color the pieces of the cow and glue them to the paper
plate, if needed cut out holes and add a stick

6. Collage
• General Objective: the child will be able to distinguish
different types of animals
Objective: Contents: Activity: Materials: Time:
the child will be able to distinguish Pets, Farm, Zoo Collage Newspapers 20mins.
different types of animals animals , magazines
Scissors,
Glue
poster
board
• By dividing a poster board into three, the children will have to
place the correct animal in the corresponding corner