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Easter and Spring Themes Including a chick craft, puppet, etc.
Egg Theme
Farm Theme

- Pretend to be a chicken by walking around the room or standing still.  Put your hands under your arm pits and make chicken sounds.

- Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells by Modest Moussorgsky Music Activity  Use a chick puppet as you play the music.

Cooking and Snacks
Eat chicken strips or a chicken sandwich.

Foreign Language: Spanish
chicken - pollo

Mazes
Free Printable Mazes - Coloring-Crafts.com Including The Hen Maze, Hen Barn Maze, and more

Online Chicken Activities Chick Jigsaw Puzzle The Enormous Carrot Story @ kidzclub Based from: "The Little Red Hen" Tyson Chicken Online Games

Hen

Songs & Rhymes
Enchanted Learning - Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen and Printout to Color
Nite Owl: My Black Hen Coloring Pages
Enchanted Learning - This Old Man (They use "hen" instead of "over again".)

  

Rosie's Walk Activities

The Little Red Hen Story Bag or Ideas

Little Red Hen Felt Set The Little Red Hen has some things to teach about preparation and the lesson is fun with these colorful felt figures. 17 figures 2-1/2H-7H. 12-page activity guide with story in English and Spanish 4 coloring sheets.

1. Book: Little Red Hen @ amazon.com
2. Flannel Board Story: Use the story and printables found at Bry-Back Manor The Little Red Hen to retell the story.  (Use my flannel board pieces and board page to make the pieces for this story.)
3. Story: The Little Red Hen Story, The Little Red Hen Story,  The Little Red Hen Story @ TCM (pdf), or The Story of Growing Grain (The Little Red Hen).
4. The Story of Growing Grain (The Little Red Hen). Has six pictures after the "Resource" section, the "Match", and the story (including pictures).
5. Make puppets.  Retell the story (or just make animal sounds using the puppets).
Paper bag puppets: Hen, cat, dog, and mouse using The Little Red Hen @ Franklin Haynes Marionettes (Go down to the button of the page), Puppy Puppet @ StoryPlace, Danielle's Place:  Puppets - Pig, Pig Puppet @ dev.texshare.edu, Paper Bag Puppets @ abcteach: Pig, Cat Hand Puppet @ Sunnie Bunniezz
Finger Puppets: Hoiho's Chicks: Predatoar Finger Puppets (Cat, dog, and rat.)
6. Cooking: Place a recipe card in the bag for: white bread or dairy-free bread.
7. First-School Activity - Fairy Tale: The Little Red Hen
8. Coloring Pages: hen; chicken; hen; hen and chicks; hen above eggs; hen by her eggs
9. The Little Yellow Chicken Story @ Literacy Hour - Lesson Plans

Rooster
Here is how people in different countries imitate the rooster.  Make those sounds.
Rooster Photo

Foreign Language: Spanish
rooster - gallo