Farm Week!

Day 1: We started off Farm Week just focusing on the whole idea of a farm (just the animals part of it, not the farming/gardening of machines/vehicles). The following days were all about a specific farm animal

 

Story- The Big Red Barn

Art- Painting and putting together the silo

Game- Lego matching- tops of farm animals to bottoms

Snack- Graham cracker, frosting and pretzel farm

Math & Hand/Eye- "Do-A-Dot" sheet


  

So we painted an oatmeal canister...



...and a paper plate to make a barn/silo. I hot glued them together while Lily took a nap, but that was pretty much it. I thought she'd play with it with her Little People farm animals. Nope. Not interested.

Matching up farm animal pictures on Lego blocks





Then lining them all up

Trying out a "Do-A-Dot" sheet. However, our bingo markers didn't work, so I cut out a small circle sponge and we used paint instead. She wasn't a big fan of this, although she could figure out what all the answers were. Then she got a little distracted and wanted to paint all the tractors...



Farm snack!

Day 2: Today was all about hens and chicks. It was a shorter day, because we had MOPS, but we actually got a lot done!

Story- Cheep! Cheep! & 3 Hens and a Peacock

Art- Hens and chicks- gluing & feathers

Snack- Easter egg chick lunch

Game- Folder matching game

Math & Hand/Eye- "Do-A-Dot"sheet



Mama hen and her baby chicks

 

Hiding the baby chicks under Mama hen's wing



Chicks in a nest for lunch

 

Matching the front ends to the back ends. Or the heads to the butts



While Wade was doing his homework, Lily was doing her work too 

Circle stickers can also be used on Do-A-Dot sheets. She liked this a whole lot better than the paint



Day 3: Sheep! This was another short day since we went to the library for story time.
Story- Sheep in a Jeep (we didn't have this one yet, so we watched it on YouTube) & Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme with sheep puppet
Art- Sheep bubble painting
Snack- Sheep cupcakes
Math & Hand/Eye- Do-A-Dot sheet


Blowing paint bubbles

Big bubbles! So pretty

We pressed the paper onto the bubbles (multiple times) to make these prints



Then cut out a sheep body shape and added features

See? So cute!

Fine, Mom. I'll show you the sheep cupcake I made.

Mmmm, frosting!

Baa baaa!

Enjoying our cute, fluffy, little treats!

More stickers!

Day 4: Horses!
Story- I didn't really have a good horse story, so we re-read the Big Red Barn and added the Jolly Barnyard. Both of these stories have horses in them although they don't focus on them solely.
Art- Horse footprint art with yarn mane
Sensory- Clean-a-horse station
Snack- Haystacks

Adding glue to make our footprint horse

Footprint horse!

Getting ready to scrub off this dirty horse (I had previously painted him with brown paint and rolled him in oatmeal)!

She was telling me all about the horse the whole time

Scrubbing him thoroughly (she lost her shirt, so she wouldn't get dirty too)

Wrapping him all up

Oops, missed a spot

All tucked in because, he's "a little bit sleepy."

Haystack snacks. Because horses eat hay. Lily was not a fan. Can't fool this girl- she doesn't like pretzels, even if they are covered in sugar.

Day 5: Piggies! I was pretty sure this was going to be my favorite day...
Story- How Big is a Pig?
Art- Muddy pig marble painting with yarn hay
Snack- Eggo pig breakfast & muddy animals pudding
Movie! Barnyard (I'd never heard of this one before, but I think it was a Pixar film. Pretty cute, the kids liked it, but not my favorite)


We started off the day with a little piggy breakfast!

Making a muddy pig painting with a marble and brown paint




Muddy pig!

Adding hay to make the background

Finished product

Making pudding for our "muddy animals" pudding cups to eat during the movie later

Muddy animals pudding snack

Some of our farm artwork from this week on display