Caring for Farm Animals
Caring for animals teaches kids gentleness, patience and responsibility.
Why this matters (for parents): Always supervise kids around animals, teach slow movements and quiet voices, and make handwashing with soap a rule after every chore. Give kids one daily job, like refilling water or collecting eggs, so they learn responsibility.
Lessons
- Gentle Hands with Animalsmove slowly, speak softly, and always have a grown-up with you.
- Hens and Fresh Eggshens need grain, fresh water, a clean coop and a safe nest box.
- Goats on the Farmgoats eat hay and browse on plants, need shelter, and love to climb.
- Rabbitsrabbits eat hay, leafy greens and a little vegetable, and need a quiet, clean hutch.
- Sheep and Woolsheep graze in the pasture and grow wool that is sheared each spring.
- Fresh Water and Clean Homesevery animal needs clean water every day and a clean, dry place to rest.
- Washing Up After Animal Carealways wash your hands with soap after touching animals or their homes.
- Daily Farm Choresfeed, water, collect eggs and check on every animal, every day.
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