Farm Theme Activities

Inside: Farm theme activities for toddlers and preschoolers – activities, songs, printables, and more!

This farm theme can be done any time of the year, but I love having it in the fall when our families tend to visit local farms for pumpkins.

Farm Theme Activities

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Please note: Some of these activities are geared more for older preschoolers. I like to add a selection because I know you don’t all teach 2 and 3 year olds. Select which activities you feel will work best with your students.

I’ve also included activities from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet because I know many of you have purchased it.

Classroom Set Ups

• 2025 Tour
• 2023 Tour
• 2022 Tour (Week 1 and Week 2)
• 2021 Tour
• 2019 Tour

Art

• Pigs on the Farm
• Farm Animal Painting
• Pigs Puffy Art
• Muddy Pigs
• Pig and Cow Puppets (from our Animal Puppets Packet)
• Barn and Farm Animals (Use the free barn printable, paint red, add farm animal stickers when it’s dry.)
• Giant Corn Kernel (from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet)
• Animal Paint Tracks (from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet)
• Painting with Tractors (from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet)

Watch: How I Manage our Art Table

Sensory Bin

• Washing Fruits & Vegetables Water Table
• Easy Farm Sensory Bin
• Washing Fruits & Vegetables Water Table

Cooking

• Homemade Butter (from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet)

Display Printables

• Farm Photos

Light Table

• We’ve displayed our Nesting and Sorting Barns activity on the light table.
• We’ve also done a shape sorting activity where we used colored tape to outline basic shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle) and then added a basket of blocks in those same shapes. The children then sorted and placed the shape blocks on the matching taped shapes. It’s not farm related, but not everything I put together is related to the theme.

Math

• Chicken Numbered Strip Puzzle (from our Animal Packet)

Playdough

• Farm Animals

Science

• Place the free farm picture cards on a tray and display pretend farm animals, farm vehicles, and other items related to the farm.
• Farm Discovery Bottles (from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet)
• We’ve also used this area to explore corn.

Table and Small Group Activities

• Free Farm Count and Clip Cards
• Free Farm Animal Counting Strip Puzzles
• Free Farm Left-to-Right Pages (Can laminate and use a dry erase marker.)
• Corn and Scarecrow Pom Pom Color Matching
• Farm Animal Tracing Cards (Pulled from our Picture Word Cards Packet, laminated them, and used with dry erase markers.)
• Free Tractor Counting Cards
• Chicken 1-4 Strip Puzzle (Using our Animal Theme Packet)

Writing Center

• Free Farm Left-to-Right Pages (Can laminate and use a dry erase marker.)
• Fruit and Vegetables Coloring Sheets
• Free Barn Color Sheet
• Free Farm Color Pages
• Selected Farm Animal Word and Tracing Cards (Using our Animal Theme Packet)
• Selected Farm Animal Coloring Pages (Using our Animal Theme Packet)

Block Center

• Our wooden farm and horse stable have been set on our train table, along with some tractors and farm animals.

Dramatic Play

• Farmers Market
• Horse Ranch (Using our Horse Ranch Packet.)
• Petting Zoo (Using our Animal Theme Packet)

Fine Motor

• Cow and Pig Puppets (from our Simple Animal Puppets Packet)

Circle Time

• Free Put the Animals in the Barn Printable Activity (I make enough copies of the animals so each child has one. As they place it in the barn, they tell me what animal it is.)
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Props) – I make extra copies of the animals, laminate and tape them to craft sticks so each child can hold one while singing.
• Five Little Ducks
• Farm Songs (from our Toddler Farm Activity Packet)

Watch: Easy Circle Time Activities

Music

• You can find farm songs in this playlist.