EYFS – Farms
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 Sing songs and rhymes relating to farms and growing. Encourage students to use props and develop
actions and record each other’s performances.
 With the students, set up a small world farm, discussing which buildings and animals they want to
include.
 Identify different produce which is grown on the farm and develop a market stall role-play to
encourage students to use this vocabulary.
 Create a puppet show using a barn for the theatre and farm animal characters.
 In the outdoor area, set up a farm. Designate different areas of the outdoors to represent the different
areas of a farm, examples could include:
- using hay bales to represent a barn
- using a play kitchen and plastic tables and chairs to represent the farmer’s house
- using a paddling pool to represent a pond
- creating a horse by inserting a hobby horse into a hay bale and placing a blanket over the top to
act as seat.
(Encourage students to find and add suitable props to the farm).
 Encourage students to take on different ‘jobs’ around the farm:
- Have a prop box with farmer’s clothes and animal suits and masks to dress up as different animals.
- Have a collection of toy bottles and animals in the barn so students can ‘feed’ the animals.
- Put latex gloves in the water tray with holes in the fingers to represent ‘milking’.
- Have a bucket of water with sponges for students to clean the wellington boots.
 Have picture cards of different animals on the farm. These could be used for a range of activities,
including:
- matching the adult animal with its corresponding baby.
- using the cards to identify the different parts of the animals, for example, the beak, wattle, toes
and shank of a hen.
 Duplicate the cards and encourage students to play snap.
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 Ask students to move around an open space as different farm vehicles. Call out commands to change
speeds and directions.
 In the playground, ask students to move around as different farm animals, for example, they could:
- waddle like a duck
- skip like a lamb
- charge like a bull.
 Set up an obstacle course to represent a farm. Equipment could include:
- balancing beams for walking carefully over the muddy field
- a trestle with a mat for climbing over the fence and jumping down
- a ladder for climbing up a ladder in the barn.
 Sing different action songs and rhymes.
 Build different farm buildings using either large or small construction materials.
 Bury vegetables in large pots or buckets and ask students to dig these out. Once they have finished,
students could plant them again.
 With the students, make animals or vegetables using salt dough. Paint these when the salt dough has
dried.
 Describe the growth of a seed and encourage students to mime the different stages.
 Fill a sensory bin with dried corn and add dried black beans to represent the crows. Ask students to
use the tweezers to pick out the ‘crows’.
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 Students to learn how to grow and care for plants by growing fruit or vegetables. Work in pairs to
plant a seed and then take it in turns to water the plant each day.
 Discuss the different ways in which students can take care of the environment, for example:
- shutting gates
- not dropping litter
 Talk about the different animals on the farm:
- Discuss the ways in which different animals grow and change (use supporting images).
- Find out about the diet of different animals.
- Look at where different animals live on the farm.
 Look at where our food comes from and where it is made. Activities to support this could include:
- making different recipes, for example, bread or porridge.
- trying different produce and identifying what each student likes and dislikes.
- setting up a market stall and encouraging students to role-play in pairs being the ‘buyer’ and the
‘seller’.
 Discuss the importance of a healthy diet, including:
- looking at the different food groups and organising produce into these food groups.
- discussing the health benefits of each food group.
- looking at the diet of different animals.
 Talk about caring for animals:
- Looking at the ways a mother takes care of her baby.
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Looking at how a farmer takes care of the animals.
Role-playing the difference between caged and free range hens and deciding which has the better
life.
Look at what happens on the farm at different times of the year.
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 Match the names of animals to their corresponding image. These can be repeated with vegetables and
crops.
 Look at different ‘farm’ words which have the same initial sounds, for example, pond, pen. This could
be extended by looking at alliterations.
 Read different story books relating to farms:
- Act these stories out using props.
- Use large flip chart paper to draw story maps.
- Help students to rewrite the story or part of the story.
 Look at how to write the names of different farm animals:
- Use this to write a pop-up book.
- Add speech bubbles for each of the different animals in the pop-up book.
 Organise a visit to a farm and use this to undertake a range of activities, including:
- Before visiting the farm, generate a set of questions to interview the farmer.
- During the farm visit, take photographs. Look at these in the classroom and ask students to
describe what is happening in each picture.
- Put the photographs in chronological order.
 Write a recount of the day, introducing appropriate vocabulary.
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 Create a chicken coup using straw in a sensory bin. Add play dough eggs to the bin and ask students
to find and count how many eggs the hen has laid. This could change daily and the students could
record the number of eggs on a chalkboard.
 Use small world animals for a range of different activities:
- Organise the animals into pens and count how many animals are in in each pen (vary the number
depending in the ability level).
- Look at two pens and add the total number of animals. Write the corresponding addition number
sentence.
- Take some animals away from a pen. Write the corresponding subtraction number sentence.
- Organise the animals into sets of 2, 5 or 10 and count these.
 Create a sequence of animals using pictures cards or toys, for example, one sheep, one horse, one cow,
one sheep, one horse etc.
 Put plastic ducks in a water tray or paddling pool. Put a number on the underside of each duck.
- Ask students to count how many ducks are in the pond.
- Ask students to fish out the duck and read the number.
 Use scales and corn kernels to explore the concepts of ‘full’, ‘empty’, ‘more’, ‘less’ and ‘equal’. Milk
could also be used to introduce these concepts.
 Find out which is the most popular farm animal in the class by conducting a survey and drawing a
graph or pictogram.
 Look at a range of different vegetables. Organise these into size, identifying which is the ‘largest’ and
which is the ‘smallest’.
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 Organise a visit to the farm. If possible, carry out the following activities:
- Learn about the daily routine of a farmer, for example, finding out what time he gets up, eats his
breakfast etc.
- Interact with the livestock on the farm.
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Visit during lambing season to see new-born lambs and possibly feed hand-reared lambs (it may
also be possible to visit other new-borns).
Grow vegetables with the students, for example, sweetcorn, courgettes and carrots.
Grow some wheat, as an example of how farmers grow grains. Some of the wheat could be grown in
plastic bottles and kept inside, so that students can see the roots.
Set up a small world farm on a tuff spot:
- Use different coloured fabrics to represent grass, soil, water.
- Include farm buildings, fences, vehicles and different farm animals and characters.
Create a farm sensory tub:
- Create a layer at the bottom of the tub using seeds and corn kernels.
- Include examples of vehicles, animals and buildings.
- Include small spoons and containers.
Look at different animals and talk about what each animal is farmed for.
Make different foods from crops which are grown on the farm, for example, porridge, butter and
bread.
Look at different types of farms, for example, arable farm, dairy farm, fish farm.
Look at how different produce is farmed around the world, for example:
- peanuts
- bananas
- coffee
- pomegranates
Activities
 Sing different songs about the farm:
- The Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Old McDonald had a Farm
- The Farmers’ in his Den
 Teach students how to weave using paper plates and wool.
 Make masks or puppets of different farm animals and use these in a show.
 Make different farm animals using paper plates, cotton wool, pipe cleaners and paper and make a
display out of these.
 Talk about how farmers stop the birds from eating the crops. Make a scarecrow and place it near the
crops which the class are growing.
 Use a large cardboard box to make a tractor. Paint it and add it to the role-play.
 Use different farm produce for painting or printing, for example, apples, potatoes etc.
 Make an animal collage.
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