Preschool Farm Theme
Planning your Farm Theme
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*Make Muddy Animal TracksInvite 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 r use toy pigs to create pig tracks.
See our tutorial for making brown using primary colors. |
*Where is Goose? Finger paint Resist
This a fun activity to complement the book Barnyard Banter. Simply attach a goose cutout (Members can download this Goose Template inside our Barnyard Banter Story Time Activity Set) to your paper, and cover with finger paint until the goose is "hidden". Your student will be so excited when they gently peel the cutout away to review where goose was hiding.
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Corn on the Cob Painting
You will start this activity by inviting the child to paint the corn on the cob with different color paints, and then they can roll the painted corn onto paper.
Try using the ends of the corn as a stamper too! See the Corn on the Cob Painting Tutorial for more details |
Farm Snack Idea
Miss Vicki's Daycare has been having so much fun learning about the farm! Look at this fun snack she made!
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Farmers Market Dramatic PlayCreate A Farmer's Market
Add a Market Stand, a Garden for Picking Fruits, and Vegetables. Add baskets, a cash register, and signs. Club Member Alegria P. shared how she set up our Farmer's Market Dramatic Play set in here space.
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Create a Farm
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. 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.
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Small World Farm PlayAdd a variety of Farm Animals, Tractors, Barns, Fencing, Blocks to build Barns/Stalls to your construction space this week.
Take a closer look at how our friend Alina at Growing Up Montessori and Waldorf Inspired created this lovely farm chores small world play set up using our farm chores set.
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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 our Farm Activity Pack.
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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.
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Farm Animal Beginning SoundsExplore beginning sounds using these farm animal clip cards from the Farm Activity Pack.
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*Down on the Farm Positional PhrasesPractice 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.
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Farm Slide and FindPractice number matching with our 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.
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*Farm to Table Science
This week talk about where food comes from! This can be done through a mix of videos, books, and activities. Club Members can download this set of Story Time Activities to complement the book From Grass to Milk and learn more about where milk comes from.
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. |
Pigs in the Mud Sensory Bin
Mix up some Chocolate Oobleck mud for the sensory bin and add a variety of plastic farm animals for children to explore.
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*Farm Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice-Fine Motor
Set up this Farm theme Pre-Cutting/Writing practice for your preschoolers to work on their fine motor development!
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Farm Chore Obstacle Course-Gross Motor
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.
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Community member Lisa R. shared this fun farm activity! She created a cow that the children could pretend to milk!
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Farm Field TripPlan 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 this one from PBS Kid Vision
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I Am Helpful Class BookFor 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. 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."
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Play a Game Together: Tractor Rolling Game*
Invite your preschoolers to play a game together, such as 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! |
Team Building: Idea ExchangeGet your group working on exchanging ideas with this activity from my Fall Team Building Activities pack.
This pack has a variety of ideas for supporting preschoolers in developing team building skills. |
Support preschool math and literacy development while exploring farm animals!
This 70-page printable .pdf Farm activity pack includes the following 22-preschool activities:
Also Included: TOS, Graphics Credit, Contact information
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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.
This pack includes a variety of signs and printable accessories to transform your space into a Farmers Market.
Inside this .pdf file you will find:
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Use this set during your Farm Theme to set up a fun farm-themed obstacle course. Your preschoolers will enjoy exploring farm Chores while working on physical development at the same time! This printable pack includes a farm chores checklist. a farm chores poster, and farm chore cards-all featuring real photo images!
This printable pack includes a farm chores checklist. a farm chores poster, and farm chore cards-all featuring real photo images!
Inside this .pdf file 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
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This download includes 6 fun and engaging preschool animal sorting activities-featuring realistic photos! Simply choose the sorting mat(s) of your choice and the animal cards.
Choose to sort animals by:
This pack also includes a cover page with table of contents, contact information, TOS, and graphics credit
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This set includes themed daily sign in and sign out attendance activities for your whole year! These activities help young children learn to recognize their names in a fun way. Your students will love finding their names each day. Simply laminate, add velcro and hang on a wall (or place in a binder).
This editable .pdf file includes an automated class list to make it easy to customize your sign in activities. Simply fill in the form and all of the activities will automatically update with your student names.
Inside this editable set you will find the following themed activities:
TOS & Graphics Credit
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This fall preschool math and literacy binder is jam packed with all kinds of fall fun!
This 17-page .pdf file includes 8 activities:
Fall Pattern (AB) Mat
Skill: Operations and Algebraic Thinking-Patterning
Apple shape match up
Skill: Geometry-Shapes
Counting Apple Seeds
Skills: Counting and Cardinality-counts to tell number of objects
Ordering Sunflowers by height
Skills: Measurement & Data-Orders objects by measurable attributes (height)
Pumpkin Patch Letter Match
Skills: Emergent Literacy-Alphabet Knowledge
Nutty Color Match
Skills: Measurement & Data-Sorts and classifies objects by one or more attributes (color)
At the school positional word fun
Skills: Geometry spatial reasoning-use and demonstrates an understanding of positional terms.
Falling leaves finger tracing
Skills: Fine Motor Development
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Preschoolers love color, cut, and paste activities! These activities give young children a chance to practice essential skills they will need for learning to write and complete more advanced activities later on.
This pack includes the following 17 printable Color, Cut, and Paste Scenes:
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Trace and Color sheets are great to have on-hand for children of all ages.
Children love simple coloring sheets, these pages have an added tracing element for engagement as well as development of fine-motor and hand-eye coordination.
Use them anytime or pair with your themed curriculum.
This 17-page pack includes the following Trace & Color Sheets:
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Investigating Apples with preschoolers is a fun way to explore the scientific process!
This printable pack helps guide your exploration with investigations written out step-by-step and forms that preschoolers can use independently or with support from an adult.
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Add some literacy fun to your preschool fall activities with this I Can Build a Scarecrow Sequencing Story!
Your students will build new vocabulary, and sequencing skills as they listen to you read this rebus story about how to build a scarecrow.
After reading the included rebus story, your students can practice retelling the story they just heard by using the included story cards or using the included sequencing form to show their understanding of this topic.
This is a great activity to preface building an actual scarecrow in your classroom!
Inside this 14 pg. pack you will find the following printables:
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This pack makes it easy to set up Team Building Learning Activities for preschoolers all fall!
This 46-page PDF includes
Activity Cards for the following activities:
Printable Activities:
Also included: Table of Contents, Directions, TOS & Graphics Credit
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Pair this pre-k book companion activity pack with the book From Grass to Milk by Stacy Taus-Bolstad. This book and activity are a great addition to a Farm Animals Theme.
Inside this 11 pg. set you will find:
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Learning Centers
Preschool Learning Centers are commonly referred to as Preschool Centers, or Learning Spaces. These are activity areas dedicated to a specific type of of play and exploring a variety of topics and activities. Download our Free set of Center Signs!
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