1. Encourage younger children to identify pictures of different farm animals. Encourage them to imitate the sounds that they make. If you have access to toy animals, can they match these up to the pictures?
2. Write a list of farm animals. Can you learn the names of the baby animals? Encourage older children to write the list independently.
3. Create your own ‘Muddy Animals’ water play activity. Use a bowl filled with soapy water and another bowl filled with soil from the garden. Add some farm animals into the mud. Encourage your child to use sponges/wipes/an old toothbrush to clean the animals.
4. Design your own farm – Encourage your child to design their own farm. You could use a range of different materials/craft resources to do this. What colour do you need for the duck pond? What does the cow live on? Draw different animals on your farm. Label your farm.
5. Use a box to create your own 3D farm small world play. Add grass, sticks, stones, a bowl of water for a pond etc and add different animals in. Alternatively, this could be done in the garden.
6. Play a guess who I am game with your child. Use clues such as “I am pink and like to roll around in mud. What am I?” With younger children, listen to a range of animal sounds and see if they can identify them. You can find a range of sound
bingo games on YouTube to support this.
7. Create your own ‘fields’ this could be done using chalk on pavement, painted on paper or using lego/building blocks to make spaces. Add numbers into each animal field. Encourage your child to put the correct amount of animals into the fields.
8. Can you create your own Farm Animal craft?
9. Create your own ‘Muddy Pig’. Paint a picture of a pig (older children can do this independently). Mix a little mud with a little bit of water and encourage them to paint muddy spots on their pig.
10. Can you read some stories together that are set on a farm? Here are a few ideas: A squash and a squeeze, What the Ladybird heard, Farmer Duck, Noisy Farm, Rosies Walk. All of these stories can be found online.