Below is a summary of all the play and learning we have done for the past week or so. Following this post I will post more details and lesson plans. We also hosted a playdate with the Farm Theme. All that is listed below was out for the playdate.
What is a farm? A Farm is where we grow crops (veggies, fruit, grain) and/or livestock.
We visited a Farm
We went out to Adams Acres Farm to picked Blueberries. See more photos here.
And I displayed pictures of our visit where he plays so we could continue to talk about our experience.
Books
Our art lessons and theme were based on the following Barefoot Books:
Driving My Tractor
Active Play
Farm Themed Duplos
We combined our Duplos with a new set LEGO Brick Themes DUPLO My First Farm. We used the flowers to plant vegetables, and the farmer would harvest them. He liked the tractor but the tractor doesn’t come with anything to pull, luckily we had the LEGO DUPLO Number Train
to make a long train to harvest our veggies.
Farm Themed Items for his Trains
We already had the Brio Farm Animal Train. I though it would be fun to add the BRIO: Animal Yard
. Huge hit!
Picture Match Farm Animals
We matched our Jumbo Farm Animals to the picture cards.
Sensory Bin with Farm Animal
Simple sensory bin filled with beans and Safari Ltd Farm Animals.
Match Circles to Picture
Art Lessons
Tractor Tracks
Pig in the Mud
We combined the tractor tracks with marble rolling to make a pig in the mud!
Wooly Sheep
Added wool to our sheep!
Food
Blueberries Muffins and Blueberries! YUM! Connecting our visit to the farm with the food we eat.
You have several cute ideas here. May I ask where you found the pictures you put on your magnet board or if you made them yourself. I love the idea of using those on the magnet board with the magnet pom poms.
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Hi Laura,
Yes, I drew the magnet board images myself. I hope to have some more for the new zoo/safari theme I am working on posted soon.
Thanks for stopping by!
What a great exploration of the farm theme. I love these ideas. Thanks for sharing at Discover & Explore this week.
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