Crafts for Kids: S is for Sheep!

by Jul 7, 2019Alphabetical, Animals, Crafts, Cricut, Farm Animals, Hand Cut, Paper Crafts, qrstu

Use this sheep to help your students learn about the letter S! Sheep crafts will fit right into a Farm Animals theme and help make your life one day easier. It can also be used as a puppet when you sing “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” to help them understand the sounds sheep make!

Skills

Types of skills can include math, science, fine motor, dramatic play, social and emotional. Here is how this sheep applies these skills:

Math

Add in math concepts by having your child count how many legs are on a sheep, or having them count how many cotton balls they are using on the sheep’s body.

Science

If you have other crafts with your child, have them classify the sheep along with the other crafts. For example, sheep fall under animals, where spiders are classified as insects.

Fine Motor Skills

Your child will learn how to use scissors to cut the horse’s tail

Your child will learn how to use scissors to cut the sheep’s legs.

Your child will use their pincer grasp to pull apart cotton balls and/or crumble tissue paper to glue onto the sheep. If you use googly eyes or sticker eyes, this will also allow them to improve their pincer grasp skills.

Dramatic Play and Social/Emotional

Children can use this sheep as part of their farm and pretend to be sheep and make sheep noises.

Boundaries

Make sure you supervise your child when using scissors and other sharp items.

Materials

You will use black and white construction paper, markers, cotton balls, scissors, and glue.

Cotton balls, sheep head and body templates, and black construction paper

Markers, scissors, and glue

Steps

Firstly, find yourself a nice sheep template. We created Cricut templates for our sheep head and body, which will be glued together. The templates are below:

Once you have your sheep template, the child will first draw eyes, nose, and a mouth on the sheep’s head. You can also use googly eyes are stickers instead of drawing them.

Next, give the child the sheep’s body and some cotton balls. Have the child loosen/spread the cotton balls so they can be glued on the sheep’s body.

Then have the child glue the head and the body together, and guide them as necessary.

Depending on the child’s cutting skills, have the child cut four strips of black construction paper for the legs. If the child does not have the necessary cutting skills, either guide them or cut the legs for them.

Lastly, have the child glue the legs on the back of the sheep, where legs belong.

Modifications

You can use googly eyes or sticker eyes instead of having the child draw them.

You can replace cotton balls with tissue paper, and have the child use their pincer grasp to crumble the paper and glue it onto the sheep’s body.

Be creative and make the sheep any color you like!

BAAAA!


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