Farm – Weekly theme play prompt
This is a series of weekly posts, suggesting a theme for play and activities. This weeks theme, just had to be ‘farms’, after our lovely outting to Amners Farm lambing day. If you get a chance to visit your local farm I would highly recommend it.
Suggestions for farm themed activities
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Small world farmyard play – get the farm play animals out and pretend play with a tractor, animals and maybe a barn too. Here is a great example of this small world play from Two-daloo
- Make/craft small animals – You could craft some chicks, hens, sheep, pigs or cows with recycled junk e.g. egg boxes or toilet rolls, cotton wool balls, yoghurt pots etc.
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Make paper plate animal masks – use paper plates to make a pig, chicken or cow mask like these ones at Sweetnut
- Sing Old MacDonald has a farm or dingle dangle scarecrow.
- Read some farm stories, we love the Farmyard tales by Heather Amery & Stephen Cartwright.
- Draw and colour some animals and tractors, or maybe get the paints out too.
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Make a sensory tub farm – Use lentils, rice, mud, corn, water etc in a tub with your farm animals to get some full sensory play, like this one from No time for flashcards.
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Playdoh – have fun with playdoh making a farm scene like Sugar Aunts
- Have a go a milking a cow (the homemade version) via The inspired Treehouse
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Make a handprint farm, I like this one at Mom to 2 posh lil divas
These are my 10 suggestions for this weeks themed play, fun and learning. I hope you find some inspiration and join me for a farm themed week.
I would love you to pop back later in the week to see what we got up to with this weeks themed play.
What other farming activities do you enjoy?
My kids love visits to farms and farm animals. In fact, Little Man has just told me he wants ‘animals’ tomorrow while Boo’s at preschool, so I’ll use some of these ideas to keep him happy! Thanks x
Great, I hope you both enjoy it
We love taking trips to farms. It’s nice for both the girls to see all the animals. They gave a little lamb some food before you should of seen their happy little faces x
Aw, I love seeing the children’s faces when they get up close to the animals
Farms are the best places to go, so your farm-themed suggestions are brilliant. Monkey loves singing Old Macdonald at the moment!
They are fab for kids
oooHHH my son had got this lego farm set that he loves to play and yes he always sing Old Mc Donald while playing them =) #LetKidsBeKids
Farms can be great to inspire kids
This is a great post! I’m definitely going to do a few of these with Harry x
Fantastic, I hope you enjoy it x
I am definitely going to try some paper plate animals! Thanks for sharing with the #pinitparty. I have pinned
Great, I hope you have fun x
Some amazing tips there, thank you! We have a few farms around us, but none that are real easy to get too. So we plan to do those over the summer break for sure! x
Great, I hope you have fun x