Farm Lesson Planning Page
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This week we are learning about the farm! Use the ideas on this page to plan your lessons!
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Color Mixing to make Brown
Invite your preschooler to mix up colors to make brown!
This is a fun way to explore mixing colors and the resulting paint can be used as mud for making tracks using little tractors or use toy pigs to create pig tracks.
See our tutorial for making brown using primary colors.
This is a fun way to explore mixing colors and the resulting paint can be used as mud for making tracks using little tractors or use toy pigs to create pig tracks.
See our tutorial for making brown using primary colors.
Old McDonald Had a Band
Listen to the song Old McDonald Had a Band by Raffi
Then set up an invitation to create the song using instruments you have on hand.
Change up the lyrics to match the instruments you have, each child can play a different instrument or take turns with instruments.
Then set up an invitation to create the song using instruments you have on hand.
Change up the lyrics to match the instruments you have, each child can play a different instrument or take turns with instruments.
Paint with Hay
Make small bundles of hay using a rubber band. Invite children to dip the end of the hay in paint and paint freely.
Create with Yarn
Learn about how yarn is made and then invite children to use yarn in their creations!
Set up a simple invitation with a variety of yarn, scissors, and glue. Children can practice their cutting skills and glue the yarn to paper to make designs.
The book Farmer Brown Shears his Sheep by Teri Sloat is a fun rhyming book that shows how yarn is made from wool.
Set up a simple invitation with a variety of yarn, scissors, and glue. Children can practice their cutting skills and glue the yarn to paper to make designs.
The book Farmer Brown Shears his Sheep by Teri Sloat is a fun rhyming book that shows how yarn is made from wool.
Sheep Craft
Provide a sheep cutout or image along with cotton balls and glue. Invite children to dip the cotton balls in glue and then glue to their paper to fill in the sheep.
Chick Craft
Community Member Sheena W. shared this cute chic craft. Provide circle cutouts and a variety of materials to complete the chick, yellow feathers would be a fun addition!
She invited her kids to create the wings and feet using their handprints.
She invited her kids to create the wings and feet using their handprints.
Upcycle to Create a Farm
Provide a variety of materials such as food boxes, paper towel tubes, and shredded green paper for children to create a farm from recyclables.
More Art and Creativity Ideas
Hen Craft from Powerful Mothering
*Animal Tracks from Teaching 2 & 3 Year Olds
Muddy Pig from Mrs. Karen's Preschool Class
Old MacDonald had a farm basket from Play Learn Every day
Paper Plate Sheep from Danya Banya
Udder Art by Strongstart
*Animal Tracks from Teaching 2 & 3 Year Olds
Muddy Pig from Mrs. Karen's Preschool Class
Old MacDonald had a farm basket from Play Learn Every day
Paper Plate Sheep from Danya Banya
Udder Art by Strongstart
Create a Farm: Add a Barn, Pretend Animals, Hay Bales, and Ride on Horses.
Include a home for the animals on the farm such as a Barn, Stable or Chicken Coop.
Include a home for the animals on the farm such as a Barn, Stable or Chicken Coop.
Add the following Dress-up items to the Dramatic play area: bandanas, Cowboy Hats, Overalls, Rubber Boots, Pails, Stick Horses, work gloves, straw hats, Animal Costumes, and plaid shirts.
Farm Dramatic Play Ideas
Erica's Educare Learning Center
Erica's Educare Learning Center
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Erica's Educare Learning Center
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This Farmed Themed Dramatic Play Space was created by Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center
Bright Beginnings Preschool
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Debbie Stringfellow Mays
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This Farm Themed Dramatic Play Space was created by Debbie M. of Bright Beginnings Preschool
Christine M Chadwick Grygar
Christine M Chadwick Grygar
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Christine M Chadwick Grygar
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Christine Says: "Over night each night I drew cracks with a sharpie, cut cracks, and put a new chick in until all the eggs "hatched". We had so much fun!"
Create an invitation to view pretend eggs hatching such as Christine G. did below.
Farmers Market Dramatic Play
Create A Farmer's Market
Add a Market Stand, a Garden for Picking Fruits, and Vegetables. Add baskets, a cash register, and signs. Use the Pre-K Printable Fun Farmers Market Stand to create one with ease.
Add a Market Stand, a Garden for Picking Fruits, and Vegetables. Add baskets, a cash register, and signs. Use the Pre-K Printable Fun Farmers Market Stand to create one with ease.
Club Member Alegria P. set up this adorable Farmer's Market using the PKPF Farmers Market Dramatic Play set, visit my blog to see more photos of this set in use!
*Chicken and Eggs Letter Matching
Invite your preschoolers to work on matching lowercase letters or uppercase to lowercase letters using this fun chicken file folder game included in the Farm Preschool Activities Pack.
Farm 3-Part Cards
Community Member Alina shared her invitation to explore farm nomenclature using the Farm 3-part cards from the Farm Activity Pack.
Make Animal Sounds
Throughout this theme play many games where children create farm animal sounds. Farm animal sounds are a great tool for helping children develop language skills.
Farm Animal Beginning Sounds
Explore beginning sounds using these farm animal clip cards from the Farm Preschool Activities Pack.
Read Aloud Activity
Read the book Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown and follow up with the related activity below.
After reading Big Red Barn invite your preschoolers to build their own big red barn. Challenge them to create a barn using craft sticks and glue. They can use markers or paint to color the sticks red if they wish. They may have other ideas for assembling the barn or if working with younger children the sticks can be glued flat to paper to create the barn.
*Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
My big farm book by Roger Priddy
Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm by Joy Cowley and Elizabeth Fuller
Night Night Farm by Roger Priddy
Farm animals-World of Farming by Nancy Dickmann
My big farm book by Roger Priddy
Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm by Joy Cowley and Elizabeth Fuller
Night Night Farm by Roger Priddy
Farm animals-World of Farming by Nancy Dickmann
Cow Milking
Community member Lisa R. shared this fun farm activity! She created a cow that the children could pretend to milk!
Make Homemade Butter
Try making homemade butter with your preschoolers this week. Here is a video on how to complete this lesson. This activity requires few ingredients and lots of little muscles!
More Science and Discovery Ideas
Muddy Pigs from Trinity Preschool
Harvest Dough from Sun Hats & Wellie Boots
Farm Sensory Table from Preschool Play
Harvest Dough from Sun Hats & Wellie Boots
Farm Sensory Table from Preschool Play
Why do Chickens Lay Eggs?
Review the life cycle of a chicken! This is a simple explanation for the chicken life cycle, consider setting up your own activities with props for children to interact with.
*Down on the Farm Positional Phrases
Practice positional phrases with this fun game included in the Farm Preschool Activity Pack.
Read the sentence and then follow the directions using the included printable pieces.
Read the sentence and then follow the directions using the included printable pieces.
Farm Animal Sorting
Provide a variety of toy farm animals. Invite children to sort in a variety of ways. To get them started suggest they sort the animals by size, then challenge children to come up with other ways the animals could be sorted.
Some other ideas: where they live on the farm, what they eat, how many legs, color, and hair/fur.
Some other ideas: where they live on the farm, what they eat, how many legs, color, and hair/fur.
Farm Slide and Find
Practice number matching with this fun slide and find Farm Activity!
Slide the animal strip to match the number on the barn, children working on beginning sounds can then review the word at the bottom of the barn.
Slide the animal strip to match the number on the barn, children working on beginning sounds can then review the word at the bottom of the barn.
More Math Ideas
Block Play, Construction, and Small World Play
Add a variety of Farm Animals, Tractors, Barns, Fencing, Blocks to build Barns/Stalls to your construction space this week.
Small World Farm Play
Source: House of Burke
Take a closer look at how our friend Alina at Growing Up Montessori and Waldorf Inspired created this lovely farm chores small world play story table using our Farm Chores Dramatic Play pack here.
Farm Construction
Add an assortment of red or farm themed blocks if available to your block center along with a variety of farm animals to support children in building their own farm.
Cow Bell Toss
Hang up a cow bell and then invite children to toss bean bags or small balls to try to hit the bell and make it ring.
Play Horseshoes
Playing horseshoes is a lot of fun for physical development and hand-eye coordination. Be sure to use an age appropriate set for safety, here is a Backyard Horseshoe Set or if you are a do it yourself kind of person try this DIY Backyard Horseshoes by Design Love Fest or this Tabletop Horseshoe Game from Highlights
Farm Chore Obstacle Course
Farm chores take a lot of muscles! Set up a Farm Chore Obstacle Course for your littles using the printables from this pack. Inside this pack you will also find suggestions for setting up each part of the obstacle course.
*Wheelbarrow Race
Invite your preschoolers to engage in a wheelbarrow race!
Provide a space where there is plenty of open room to move and safe for this activity.
Have children take turns being the wheelbarrow and the farmer. Before the activity be sure to talk about safety with this experience. Wheelbarrows need to know that their farmers will go at a slow pace to keep them safe. Farmers need to pay attention to their wheelbarrows to make sure they don't tip and keep going in the right direction.
Provide a space where there is plenty of open room to move and safe for this activity.
Have children take turns being the wheelbarrow and the farmer. Before the activity be sure to talk about safety with this experience. Wheelbarrows need to know that their farmers will go at a slow pace to keep them safe. Farmers need to pay attention to their wheelbarrows to make sure they don't tip and keep going in the right direction.
*Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice
Set up this Farm theme Pre-Cutting/Writing practice for your preschoolers to work on their fine motor development!
Farm Field Trip
Plan a field trip to learn more about farm life and animals. Depending on your program structure you can take a trip to a farm, invite a farmer to your program, or go on a virtual field trip like the one below.
Farm to Table
This week talk about where food comes from! This can be done through a mix of videos, books, and activities. During meals and snacks spark discussion about where the food came from. Prompt children to think beyond the grocery store or restaurant their meal came from. Include discussion of all the people that were needed to get the food from a farm to your table including the farmers that planted, watered, and harvested the grains/produce, people that were involved in the sorting, transportation, and storage of the food and the people responsible for getting it to stores and stocking shelves.
There are so many community workers to talk about when discussing food from farm to table.
There are so many community workers to talk about when discussing food from farm to table.
Working Together
Working on a farm requires a lot of teamwork!
Farmers rely on many different people to make the farm work efficiently. Explore how a farm operates to spark a discussion of teamwork, setting up a Farm Chores Obstacle Course would be a great activity to compliment this discussion.
During your activities make connections to the classroom or family. Just like a farm it takes a whole team of people to make a classroom or family work well. Encourage children to think about what they can do to contribute to their family and classrooms.
Farmers rely on many different people to make the farm work efficiently. Explore how a farm operates to spark a discussion of teamwork, setting up a Farm Chores Obstacle Course would be a great activity to compliment this discussion.
During your activities make connections to the classroom or family. Just like a farm it takes a whole team of people to make a classroom or family work well. Encourage children to think about what they can do to contribute to their family and classrooms.
I Am Helpful Class Book
For Social Studies we suggested talking to your students about teamwork on a farm.
This is a good time to talk to children about how they are helpful. Community Member Sheena W. shared these photos of the binder she created for showcasing ways the children in her program are helpful.
This is a good time to talk to children about how they are helpful. Community Member Sheena W. shared these photos of the binder she created for showcasing ways the children in her program are helpful.
A class book about teamwork is a great way to boost children's self-esteem, encourage them to help out, and foster a sense of community. Sheena says "I put this book in our reading center, the children often flip through it and 'read' it."
Fun Farm Snack
Miss Vicki's Daycare has been having so much fun learning about the farm! Look at this fun snack she made!
Classic Farm Songs
There are so many fun songs to share with children related to this theme! Many are songs adults recall from their childhood...though some of the lyrics might be a bit fuzzy.
Flip through your Class Book of Songs, Fingerplays, and Rhymes to recall some of these songs and discover new ones to share as well.
Flip through your Class Book of Songs, Fingerplays, and Rhymes to recall some of these songs and discover new ones to share as well.
Tractor Rolling Game
Invite your preschoolers to play this Tractor Rolling Game from the Farm Activity Pack.
Roll the playing cube, then move the tractor that matches the color rolled on the cube...but be careful you don't get stuck in the mud!
Roll the playing cube, then move the tractor that matches the color rolled on the cube...but be careful you don't get stuck in the mud!
10 Little Horses
Here is a fun fingerplay from http://mymissnina.com/ all about horses!
Farm Experience
Ask families if anyone has experience working on a farm that would like to come and share with the children. Plan to provide a book for them to read aloud followed by a Q&A session.
Encourage families to send in photos of experiences at a farm.
Encourage families to send in photos of experiences at a farm.
Pretend Farm
Set up a parent engagement night with a fun farm theme.
Set up a pretend farm for families to explore with their students. Set up stations where they can pretend to do Farm Chores along with other fun activities families can engage in with their children.
Set up a pretend farm for families to explore with their students. Set up stations where they can pretend to do Farm Chores along with other fun activities families can engage in with their children.
Take a trip to a Farm
Plan to take your children to visit a farm or even the outside of a farm to view the animals from afar.
Share family photos of any time other family members have spent on a farm.
Share family photos of any time other family members have spent on a farm.
Farm Activity Pack
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This 61-page printable Farm activity pack includes the following 18-preschool activities:
- Pig shape clip cards
- Hay & Barn Color matching activity
- Tractor & Rolling Game
- Pre-Writing/Color matching activities
- Chicken & Egg Uppercase/Lowercase Letter matching file folder
- Count & Clip Cards
- Farm Puzzles
- Animals on the farm counting mats 1-10 without frames
- Animals on the farm counting mats 1-10 with frames
- Stacking Hay counting mat 1-20
- Patterning Activity
- Sorting activity
- Farm first sound clip cards
- Mother & Baby Farm Animal Matching Cards
- Farm 3-part cards
- Tractor Match Up
- On the Farm positional phrases
- Farm slide and find cards
Also Included: TOS, Graphics Credit, Contact information
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Farm Chores Obstacle Course Activity
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This resource is available FREE to Pre-K Printable Club Members inside the the Member Download Area.
Use this set during your Farm Theme to explore Farm Chores while working on physical development!
This printable pack includes a farm chores checklist. a farm chores poster, and farm chore cards-all featuring real photo images!
Inside this pack you will also find a list of suggestions for creating your farm chores obstacle course.
The 16 farm chores included with this pack are:
Milk the cows
Gather eggs
Feed the horses
Feed the chickens
Feed the pigs
Buck the hay
Brush the goats
Pick the vegetables
Sweep out the barn
Plow the fields
Water the garden
Shear the sheep
Bathe the dog
Bake bread
Make jam
Cut the flowers
This pack also includes TOS, Graphics Credit and Directions
Farmers Market Printable Dramatic Play Pack
$5.00
This resource is available FREE to Pre-K Printable Club Members inside the the Member Download Area.
Do your children love to visit the Farmers Market? This 56 page printable Farmers Market Dramatic Play set includes all of the signs and props you'll need to create a Farmers Market in your space.
It includes:
This pack includes a variety of signs and printable accessories to transform your space into a Farmers Market.
Inside you will find:
- Welcome to the Farmers Market (full page sign)
- The Farmers Market is Open/Closed
- Around the Market Poster (featuring real Farmers Market Images)
- Farm Fresh Eggs Sign (1/2 page & Full page)
- Raw Local Honey Sign (1/2 page & Full page)
- Fresh Cut Flowers Sign (1/2 page & Full Page)
- Fresh Local Produce Sign (1/2 page & Full Page)
- Support Local Farmers (Full Page) sign
- Produce Labels featuring real photos: Apples, Pumpkins, Eggs, Cucumbers, Corn, Grapes. Melon, Celery, Lettuce, Potatoes, Peppers, Squash, Pears, Berries, Tomatoes, Flowers, Jam, Honey, Carrots, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Peas, Onion, Garlic, Peaches, Lemons, Oranges. Eggplant, Bananas, Green Beans, Asparagus, Artichokes. Mushrooms, Limes, Cabbage, Cherries, Raspberries, Strawberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, Zucchini, and Leeks
- Price Labels (Pre-made + blank ones)
- Honey & Jam Labels
- Market Stand Item Labels
- When I work at the market jobs sign
- When I visit the market jobs sign
- Job Assignment Headbands & Cards
- Fold and Color Farmers Market Mini Book
- Farmers Market Bunting Sign
- Farmers Market Shopping List (Premade and blank)
- Printable Scale
- Blank Editable Labels
This pack also includes TOS, Directions, Graphics Credit and Suggested items to add to this theme
