Here’s a farm animals free printable for toddlers and preschoolers. This farm animals printable is perfect for playing a guessing peek-a-book game or using while you sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm!
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Does your toddler or preschooler love farm animals like mine? Theo is just enthralled with sheep, cows, horses, and pigs and loves to imitate their different sounds. To build on his interest, I created a simple farm animals activity that we both can do together! (This post contains affiliate links.)
How to Set Up the Farm Animal Activity
To set up the activity, you’ll first need to print out one farmhouse (in color or in black & white) and one sheet of farm animals (in color or in black & white). Once you’ve printed out both sheets, circle cut around the farm animals. Now you’re ready!
Farm Animal Peek-A-Boo
Theo and I first took turns placing one animal inside the barn window. We’d talk about the animal and say it’s sound. After we were done exploring the animals and barn, I cut out a little peek-a-boo flap from red construction paper, placed it over the black window on the printable, and taped it down only along the bottom edge (allowing it to open and close from the top).
Theo just loved taking turns hiding the different animals behind the door! We’d take turns hiding an animal and playing peek-a-boo to discover what it was.
Using the Printable with Old MacDonald Had a Farm
It was also fun using the activity to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm. First, one of us would hide one animal behind the door. Together we’d start singing the song, “Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O. And on his farm he had a _____________.” When we came to the part where you name the animal, we’d open the flap and discover which one was hidden inside and then add it to our song. We’d take turns changing the animal after each verse. So much fun!
Using the Farm Animal Printable with Older Children
Lucy (my 5 year old) and I played the game a bit differently. We would take turns hiding a farm animal behind the barn door. Then we would give each other clues using describing words to help the other person guess which animal was hiding. It was a great opportunity to introduce Lucy to adjectives through play!
Our Favorite Children’s Books about Farms and Farm Animals
Here’s a few of our absolute favorite farm-themed children’s books. These get pulled out of the bookshelves often to be read all throughout the year!
Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm
by Alice and Martin Provensen
The Year At Maple Hill Farm
by Alice and Martin Provensen
Big Red Barn
by Margaret Wise Brown
Lucy loved this board book growing up, and now it’s becoming one of Theo’s favorites as well. The rhythm of the text is very calming and soothing making it a nice book for any quiet time of day. Such a beautiful and simple story describing the day of various farm animals.
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Lisa says
August 28, 2013 at 8:21 pmI clicked on the links for the black and white version of the “Farm Animal Peek-a-Boo” printable. There was no picture. It never showed up. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to download something to view it?
Thank you!
Chelsey says
August 28, 2013 at 8:58 pmI added some photo icons with the links attached. Hopefully those will work for you! 🙂
The Growing Mum says
September 2, 2013 at 2:43 amWow, this is such a great idea! It’s in my Pinterest Board now. Can’t wait to use this when we do our Farm Theme.
Chelsey says
September 5, 2013 at 8:21 amThanks so much!
Monica says
September 4, 2013 at 10:10 pmLove it – adorable!
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Kate@Laughing Kids Learn says
September 6, 2013 at 5:21 amWonderful! Looking forward to adding this to my post for Share It Saturday. Thank you
Lauren says
September 8, 2013 at 4:52 amLove the Peek A Boo Farm! Thanks so much for the printables. My daughter loves singing Old McDonald. Thank you for sharing at our Pinning for Play link party!
Stacy says
October 23, 2013 at 3:58 pmThanks for sharing this! We used it in our Farm themed Tot School!
Chelsey says
October 23, 2013 at 5:11 pmI love this! Thanks so much for sharing, Stacy! (And your little guy is too cute!)
Tory says
March 9, 2016 at 11:00 pmHi, thanks for a lovely printable. My little guy just loves Old Macdonald had a farm (I had to sing it for the full 1/2 hour drive home yesterday or he started screaming at me!) – he is going to love this! I have downloaded the animals in black and white but the black and white version / thumbnail of the barn just goes to the color version. Any chance you could have a look at it – we only have a B&W printer? Thanks so much.
Chelsey says
March 10, 2016 at 7:59 amHi Tory- Thanks so much for letting me know about the error. It should be fixed now! I hope your little one enjoys- I remember many days of singing Old MacDonald with my daughter (now she’s 8), and now I get to do it again with my little guy! 🙂
S says
February 15, 2017 at 10:23 amThis just saved me in prep time for a private tutoring class! Thank you!
Anonymous says
April 2, 2017 at 4:43 pmGreat resource! I’m going to use it in my Kindergarten Spanish enrichment class.
Anonymous says
January 20, 2018 at 7:17 amFound this on Pinterest and combined it with another idea to stick the animals on milk bottle lids so they can be screwed onto their correct places – added a pond for the duck and some mud for the pigs. Kids love it and it helps with their fine motor skills too. Pity I can’t share a picture… Anyway, thanks for a fantastic base. Plus kids loved coloring the black and white one while I used the colored one.