Preschool Farm Activities and Lesson Planning Ideas
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Farm Theme Map
Free Farm Preschool Plan
*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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Old McDonald Had a Band
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.
Sheep Craft
Pair this craft with the book Farmer Brown Shears his Sheep by Teri Sloat
Paint with Hay
Create with Yarn
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.
Up-cycle to Create a Farm
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 |
Make your own Big Read Barn
After reading/Watching a Read Aloud of 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.
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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Classic Farm Songs
Farm Themed Dramatic Play Ideas
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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Act out Performing Farm Chores
Pretend Eggs Hatching
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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Popsicle Stick Barn STEM Challenge
Farm Pictures
Build Farm Animals with Blocks
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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Make Animal Sounds
Corn Kernel Letter Hunt
Gather Letter Eggs
Mrs. Wishy Washy’s Farm by Joy Crowley
The cow that went oink by Bernard Most
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boyton
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm by Joy Cowley and Elizabeth Fuller
Night Night Farm by Roger Priddy
Member Read Alouds & Story Time Activities
*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 Animal Sorting
Some other ideas: where they live on the farm, what they eat, how many legs, color, and hair/fur.
Farm Scale Activity
Farm Animal Coverings
Do they have feathers, fur, or scales?
*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. |
Why do Chickens Lay Eggs?
Make Homemade Butter
Investigating Seeds
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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Parts of a cow
*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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Tweezing Corn- Fine Motor
Play Dough Farm Animal Invitation
Needle in a Haystack
Curly Piggy Tails
Farm Finger plays-Fine Motor
Here is a fun horse fingerplay from http://mymissnina.com/
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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Cow Bell Toss-Gross Motor
Play Horseshoes-Gross Motor
Wheelbarrow Races-Gross Motor
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.
Farm Animal Movement* Gross Motor
Cow Milking-Gross Motor
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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Working Together
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 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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What is your Favorite Farm Animal?
What We Know About Farms
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. |
Visit a Farmer's Market
Family Involvement-Farm Experience
Encourage families to send in photos of experiences at a farm.
Family Engagement Idea: Pretend Farm
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.
Farm Preschool Activity Pack
Support preschool math and literacy development while exploring farm animals!
This 70-page printable .pdf Farm activity pack includes the following 22-preschool activities:
- Pig 2D Shape Clip cards
- Hay & Barn color matching activit
- Tractor rolling game
- Farm pre-writing/cutting practice
- Chicken and eggs letter matching activity
- Farm count and clip cards
- Farm puzzles
- Animals on the Farm counting mats 1-10
- Gathering eggs ten frame mats 1-10
- Stacking Hay 1-20 Counting Mat
- Farm patterning activity
- Barn sorting by size activity
- Farm first sound clip cards
- Mother and baby farm animal matching cards
- Farm 3-part cards
- Tractor Color matching activity
- On the Farm positional phrases mats
- Farm slide and find cards
- Farm Animal Movement Cube
- Milk the Cow Fine Motor Activity
- Farm Rhyming Activity
- Farm Syllable Count
Also Included: TOS, Graphics Credit, Contact information
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Farmers Market Dramatic Play Pack
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:
- 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
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Farm Chores Obstacle Course
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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Animals Sorting and Classifying Mats
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:
- Where they live: Arctic, Woodland Forest, Rain Forest, Ocean, Desert, Savanna, Antarctica, Wetlands, and Farm
- How they travel: Walk, Fly, or Swim
- Their skin coverings: Fur, Scales. or Feathers
- The number of legs they have: 0, 2, or 4
- What type of feet they have: Paws, Webbed Feet, or Hooves
- The sound they make: This set includes a QR and URL link to 12 animal audio files .mpv
This pack also includes a cover page with table of contents, contact information, TOS, and graphics credit
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Attendance Daily Sign In Activities
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:
- Back to School lunchbox/bus cards
- Apple Tree/Apple cards
- Farm/Hay cards
- Pumpkin Patch/Pumpkin cards
- Fire Safety/Fire Truck cards
- Halloween/Candy Corn cards
- Spider Wed/Spider
- Fall Tree/Leaf cards
- Turkey/Feather cards
- Christmas Tree/ornament cards
- Snow/Snowball cards
- Dental Health/Toothbrush cards
- Valentine’s/Candy Heart cards
- Rain/Raindrop cards
- St. Patrick’s Day/Gold Coins cards
- Bubbles cards
- Easter Basket/Egg cards
- Flower/Petal cards
- Ice Cream/cone cards
- Fourth of July/Star cards
- Camping/Tent cards
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Fall Preschool Math & Literacy Binder
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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Color Cut And Paste a Scene
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:
- Pumpkin Patch
- Apples
- Acorns
- Halloween
- Christmas
- Beach
- Zoo
- Country
- Camping
- Desert
- Forest
- Easter
- Park
- Fantasy
- Spring Weather
- Pond
- Under the Sea
Also included: Directions, TOS, Graphics Credit
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Trace and Color Pre-Writing Sheets
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:
- Roses
- Rocket
- Ice Cream
- Car
- Sailboat
- House
- Eggs
- Medieval Fantasy
- S'mores
- Pizza
- Apple Tree
- Umbrella
- Snowman
- Also Included: Directions, TOS, Graphics Credit
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Apple Science Preschool Activities
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.
This 30 pg .pdf includes:
- Table of contents and assembly directions
- Life Cycle of an Apple Poster and Cut & Paste Activity
- Parts of an Apple Poster and Labeling Activity
- Apple Sensory Investigation: Instructions, Recording Form
- `Apple Tasting Investigation Poster, Instructions, Recording Forms, Graphing Forms
- Apple Sink or Float Investigation Poster, Instructions, Hypothesis & Results Recording Form Brown Apple Investigation: Posters, Instructions, Recording Forms
- TOS, Graphics Credit
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I Can Build Scarecrow Preschool Literacy Set & Rebus Story
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:
- Building a Scarecrow Rebus Story
- Building a Scarecrow Word Bank
- How to Build a Scarecrow Sequencing Cards
- How to Build Scarecrow Sequencing Activity (Color/B&W)
- I can Build a Scarecrow Craft (Color/B&W)
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Fall Team Building
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:
- I Have, Who Has Game
- Down on the Farm Collaborative Story
- Pumpkin Shape BINGO
- Pumpkin Patch Small World Play
- Turkey Feather Game
- Fall Tree Craft
- Fall Trail Mix
- Pumpkin Seed Counting
- Spider Races Game
- Build a Gate STEM
- Apple Taste Testing
- Corn Painting Art Project
Printable Activities:
- I Have Who Has Game
- Down on the Farm Collaborative Story
- Pumpkin Shape Bingo
- Pumpkin Patch Small World Play Set
- Turkey Feather on the Ground
- 5-Little Pumpkins Poem
- Apple Taste Testing & Graphing
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From Grass to Milk Book Companion (Members Only)
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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:
- Vocabulary and Discussion Questions
- Book Review
- Parts of a Cow Poster
- I can label the parts of a cow
- I Know Where Milk Comes From Poster
- From Grass to Milk cut and paste activity
- I can make chocolate milk recipe
- I can make chocolate milk sequencing
- TOS & Graphics Credit