Hey Diddle Diddle Crafts

• Two templates: the rhyme pictures and the cow
• Crayons
• Scissors 
• One tongue depressor
• Light cardboard
• Tape
• Craft knife

• Download the rhyme picture template.

• Download the cow template 

• Color the rhyme picture template.

• Color the cow.

• Cut out the cow and glue it onto light cardboard cut in the same shape.

• Tape a tongue depressor to the back of the cow.

• Glue the rhyme picture template to light cardboard to reinforce it.

• Cut on the dotted line on the rhyme picture template. (An adult should do this using the craft knife.)

• Place the tongue depressor behind the rhyme picture page in the slit and use it to make the cow jump over the moon!

• One paper plate per cow
• Crayons
• Scissors
• Glue

• Download the cows head template 

• Download the arms template 

• Download the legs template 

• Color and cut out the template pieces. The young child may need some help.

• Glue the cow together like this:

• Legs onto the bottom of the paper plate. The square part goes behind the plate.

• Arms onto the sides of the body so it looks like he has his hooves on his hips. The square part goes behind the paper plate.

• Color the hooves on the paper plate.

• Head onto the paper plate, with the square part behind the plate.

• Add black splotches to the legs and the paper plate.

• Crayons
• Scissors
• White glue or rubber cement

• Download the template 

• Color the pumpkin.

• Color Peter's wife.

• Cut out the pumpkin.

• Cut out Peter's wife.

• An adult should cut the slit in the pumpkin.

• Glue Peter's wife in the pumpkin.

• Say the nursery rhyme:

• “Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell and there he kept her very well."

• Repeat the rhyme a few times.