Farm Day theme ideas for Preschoolers?

Question

In my child developement class we're having a farm day theme where preschoolers get to come in and us students teach them. We have to come up with creative ideas like snack, math/history/science, game/music, and a story. Any ideas? It would be great appreciated!

Answer 1

Music/creative movement:   "Play Farmer in the Dell"

     Play    "Simon Says":  Use animal sounds, Cow,Pig,Horse

Science:  Match pictures of Farm animals and their babies

                                       ex.  cow and calf

                                              horse and pony

                                              duck and ducklings

Stories:

Henny Penny,

Little Red Hen,

Brown Bear Brown Bear What do You See?

You can also make butter from milk.  Put whole milk a tall plastic container and let the students shake the container.  Shake until  the milk turns to butter.  You can use the butter to put on crackers for snack.

Answer 2

Snack: animal crackers

Math:  name and count the animals on the farm

Science: name what they eat and if it can be grown on a farm

Game: Duck, Duck, Goose

Music: Old McDonald had a farm and Bingo

I hope that this helps you out....

Answer 3

all of the first answer and for a story...

what about the little red hen?

Answer 4

use a sawhorse and attach a cow head - then attach a glove to the bottom for an udder with holes in the ends and teach them how to 'milk' a cow!

Old MacDonald -and Farmer in the Dell

Snack - dairy from a cow - or animal crackers

We have beans in our sensory table now with little plastic cows in it

Click Clack Moo is a hilarious farm story - or Farmer Brown goes Round and Round

Have fun!

Answer 5

Books:  

Mrs. Wishy Washy-this is an easy book to create a booklet out of.

Brown Bear Brown Bear- We read the book because there are farm animals in it...then we made our own booklet with the title Farmer Farmer What Do You See? and on each page we used a different media to color the farm animal...chalk, watercolor, marker, paint, etc...of course each animal was a different color.

Literacy:

Sticks and Curves- cut out egg shapes and write a letter on each one.  Provide a graph labeled, stick, both, curve.  Have the children place the eggs where they go.

Math:

Egg carton sorting- use those clearanced out easter eggs.  Write a number on the top and the number word or dots on the bottom half.  Place the corresponding number in the egg and place in an egg carton.  I have also placed colored paper at the bottom of each space of the egg carton to correspond with the color of the egg.

Hay Stacks: Cover small dixie cups with raffia or straw, making sure the bottoms are covered too. Turn upside down and cut a slit in the top. Glue a numeral to the front of each of these "haystacks". Draw permanent marker dots on the handles of plastic forks to correspond with the numerals. These are the "pitchforks" that can be placed in the slits of the matching haystacks. Children can lift up the haystacks and check their answers written inside the cups.

Farm Counting Stamp Books:  Run off number books for each student or make one large class book. Number books will have ten pages each with a small barn and a number from 1 - 10 on each page. Next to the barn place animal stamps to match the corresponding number on that page. For example, if the page says 7, the children might stamp seven horses, etc...

Snack:

Slop

(makes 24 half-cup servings)

6 cups vanilla yogurt

3 cups cut-up fruit

3 cups crunchy granola

1 cup grated carrots

1 cup nuts

Mix together all ingredients.  Serve in a paper cup or small bowl ... spoons are optional! :)

Pigs In a Blanket Snack:  Flatten out canned biscuits and roll a cocktail sausage in about half of a biscuit.  Back until the biscuit is done.  (You could also try this using canned crescent roll dough.)

Cow Cookies- Need: Prepared cookie dough and chocolate chips. Buy the prepared cookie dough, then let children add required ingredients (eggs, milk, etc;) Then let each child roll their dough into a ball, pound to flatten, and press in cow spots. Cook according to package directions.

Songs:

Way Down On the Farm-O

(tune: BINGO)

Down on the farm we'll find a /p/

And then we'll add an /ig/.

Now we have a pig.

Now we have a pig.

Now we have a pig.

Way down on the farm-o!

~ Author Unknown

Large Motor:

Bouncing Baby Chicks:  Use paint pens to draw eyes, wings, and beak on old tennis balls.  Hold the edge of a parachute.  Place the “chicks” in the middle of a parachute.  Sing the following song and have a child say a number. Count out loud as they shake the parachute and make the chicks hop.

Tune: Wheels on the Bus

Little baby chicks hop up and down,

Up and down,

Up and down,

Little baby chicks hop up and down.

How many times?

"Roll in the Mud"... provide a large brown blanket and encourage them to roll in the mud.  It's fun to make them into a "taco" by rolling them up.

Fine Motor:

Legless Cows:  Cut out the shape of a Cow on colored paper. Paint clothespins to match the color of the animal. Have your children put the "legs" (clothespins) on the Cow.  Could also do with other animals and match the correct clothespins to the correct animal body.  (great fine motor).

Sensory:  

Purchase corn still on the cob (in the birdseed section of your store).  Encourage them to remove the corn from the cob.  Also provide tools to work with the corn after it is off the cob.

Water and dirt are always a messy fun.  :-)  They love MUD!  And it's great learning when they can make it themselves.  Provide paint shirts.

Art:

This Little Piggy- We used chocolate pudding to make our piggies dirty.  We also changed the words to the rhyme.  This little piggy went to the _______.  This little piggy stayed ______.  etc.

Oh...this is such a fun theme and there is SO MUCH you can do.  If you search online you will come across many many many ideas!

Answer 6

For the story - check out the Farmyard Tales series from Usborne Books.  Kids love them, and they are so cute!  http://www.ubah.com/g2687