And I was not expecting my hand to come back, like, brown from the, like, grease. But they're really, like, oily and, like, greasy. MERCADO: I was expecting them to be really soft. And something else she learned - lambs aren't white and fluffy. Caitlyn Mercado remembers cleaning stalls, trimming hooves, taking temperatures. Once the lambs are born, students run through a list of health checks. If all is going well, they don't intervene. MURASHIMA: Their first job is just to stand by. MURASHIMA: Students try their best to make it to the farm in time.īALCOM: They have told me stories of waking up in the middle of the night and driving 45 minutes and trying hard not to speed because you're never quite sure if the cop's going to believe you that you're going to the birth of your lamb. They isolate themselves, and their bodies get ready for delivery. MURASHIMA: Before sheep go into labor, they stop eating their grain. You have your phone with you at all hours of the night. Sarah Balcom, who taught the class for 12 years, says that sheep usually give birth at night. MURASHIMA: That's teaching assistant Caitlyn Mercado. When the spring-only course starts, students pair up to care for one of 20 pregnant sheep.ĬAITLYN MERCADO: Lamb watch was the reason I came to this university. She found one on a campus farm at the University of Maryland.ĬLAIRE MURASHIMA, BYLINE: Sheep Management is a popular course at UMD, and there's usually a waitlist. NPR's Claire Murashima looked into some of higher education's quirkier offerings. Make a fluffy sheep craft using cotton balls, or leave them off for a simple paper craft.Many high school seniors are figuring out their college plans. This sheep craft is such a cute Easter craft, but it’s also perfect for Sunday School or a farm studies unit at school. You could even cut out little bits of yarn or paint bubble wrap white for some fun texture! Instead of cotton balls, use white poms poms, shredded paper, packing peanuts, or anything else you can think of that will look like fluffy wool. Unfortunately white paper is too flimsy to hold the cotton balls. You need some kind of heavy paper or cardboard to make this craft. If you don’t have white cardstock, you can cut out the body shape on the template and trace it onto a cereal box. You can also use a white crayon, white or lighter coloured gel pens, or even colored pencils, to write on black paper! If you have a white or metallic paint pen, they work really well! A silver Sharpie marker would also do the job. We used a silver paint pen to write on the black paper. Simply draw a cloud shape for the sheep’s body, an egg-like shape for the head, and ovals (or pointed ovals!) for the ears. Our printable sheep templates make this sheep craft really easy to make, but you definitely don’t have to use the template if you don’t want. > Sheep Template #1 (Tall/Forward Facing) > Sheep Template #2 (Wide/Sideways Facing) <<< Then print one or both of them onto 8.5 x 11 inch (letter size) paper. Don’t want to make a puppet? Simply leave the finger holes uncut and then cut out legs from the black paper.Ĭlick the links below to open the PDF templates.If ripping the cotton balls is too difficult, just use the whole cotton ball! It doesn’t look quite as much like wool, but it’s definitely still nice and fluffy!.
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