A Little Fun

We all like to have fun - old, young and all in between.

We’ve handpicked some games, jokes and other interesting things to try and keep the little ones happy.

Games
Jokes
Things to do
Interesting Facts

Games

Cow Milking Game: http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g2/cow.htm

Cow Commander: http://games.crossmap.com/flash_play/cow-commander.htm

Jokes

Q: What do you call a grumpy cow
A: Moo-dy

Q: Why don't cows have any money?
A: Because farmers milk them dry

One day two cows were chatting over the fence between their two fields. The first cow said, "I'm telling you, this mad cow disease is getting pretty scary! I've heard it's spreading so fast that it's already on Farmer Rubin's land just down the road!"
The second cow replied, “So what? It doesn’t affects us chickens!”

Q: Why did the cow jump over the moon?
A: To get to the Milky Way!

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Cows go.
Cows go who?
No, silly. Cows go MOOOOOO!

Things to do

Cow Mask

Click here to view the instructions for making this great cow mask.

Colouring Pages

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge and print the picture you want

Wexford Creamery Colouring Pages Wexford Creamery Colouring Pages Wexford Creamery Colouring Pages

Stand up cow

Crayola has this great pattern for making your own stand up cow.
Click here to get to the project.


Colour Changing Milk

Click here to try a cool experiment.

Cow Facts

  • Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day.
  • Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day.
  • Cows do not have any upper front teeth.
  • Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw.
  • Cows can detect odours up to five miles away.
  • Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings.
  • You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
  • The natural yellow colour of butter comes mainly from beta-carotene found in the grass the cows graze on.
  • There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands.
  • The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees Celsius.
  • Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.
  • A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
  • Cows can sleep standing up.