Five Little Crows Preschool Games, Songs and Craft

In the fall my family visits several farms. We go to one to pick apples and another to find pumpkins to display on our porch. We usually see scarecrows and crows cutouts on the farm. Scarecrow games and crafts  have been featured on the blog before, but we haven’t done preschool games, songs and a craft featuring crows. I thought it was about time.

After some searching I found two songs or rhymes that could be used to practice choral reading (reading together) or play preschool games. Actually they could be used with older children too.

Songs and Rhymes for Preschool Games

Five Little Black Crows

Five little black crows
By the old barn door,
One flew home
And then there were four.

Four little black crows
By the old oak tree
One flew home
And then there were three.

Three little black crows
With nothing to do
One flew home
And then there were two.

Two little black crows
Out in the sun
One flew home
And then there was one.

One little black crow all alone
Through the day
He ate in the fields.

5 BLACK AND SHINY CROWS
(To the tune of 3 green and speckled frogs)

5 black and shiny crows — Sat on a scarecrow’s nose,
Eating the most delicious corn: YUM, YUM
Scarecrow, he shouted BOO! — 1 crow, away she flew,
Then there were 4 black shiny crows: CAW! CAW!

Preschool Games and a Craft

Crafting Crows

While you could sing or chanted the crow verses above on their own , I thought it would be fun to have some crows to use along with them. Our set of five little crows were super easy to make!

Materials:

• 2 Paper towel tubes cut in half ( You could use five toilet paper tubes instead.)
• Black construction paper
• Yellow construction paper
• White construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue stick

Directions:

Cut the paper towel tubes in half. We ended up with six paper towel tube sections that were about 5 1/2 inches long.

Cut black construction paper into a rectangles that are about 5 1/2 inches tall and 6 inches long. Glue them onto each cardboard tube.

Cut out black wings for each crow. Then cut out five black triangles. Make a row of several vertical cuts  in the wide base of each triangle to give your crow a feathery fringe for the top of their heads.

Glue the wings and the fringe onto your crow.

Next cut out a set of five white circles and black circles for your crows eyes. When you have them just right, you can glue them on your crows.

Finally cut out yellow beaks for each crow and  glue them in place. We chose to cutout flat triangles. You could cutout diamond shapes. The diamond shapes could be folded in half. The bottom half could be glue to the crow and the top half could be folded down. This will give you a beak that can open and close.

Preschool Games

You can use the five little crows craft while you are singing or chanting the song. Here are some other preschool games or ways you can use them.

• Retelling Game- Have children take turns using the crows as puppets to retell what happened to the crows.
• Add a Verse- Have the children use the crows to create a new verse to the chant or song .
• Counting Backwards- Children can say or sing the song starting the opposite direction.  The Five Black Shiny Crows can start at one and crows can fly in one at time.  You can say, “In she flew!” or “In they flew!”  In this version the crows wouldn’t be afraid of the scarecrow.  The chant can easily be said reversing the number of crows without changing the words.

For more cardboard tube activities you can check out my Tube Crafts board on Pinterest.
Follow JDaniel4’s Mom’s board Toilet Paper Tube Crafts on Pinterest.

I bet you can come up with more preschool games with the crows. If you have one you would like to share, please share it in a comment below.