50 Fantastic Ideas for Farm Activities

✍ Scribed by Hannah Jones McVey

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 66
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

__ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting. __ A collection of 50 fun and effective activities to help explore and bring to life themes around farming and food production. The ideas in this book will develop a child's confidence, curiosity and connection with the land that sustains them and supports their development within the Early Learning Framework, including new vocabulary, mathematical skills, development of fine motor skills and making healthy food choices. Activities such as 'explore fruit browning,' 'balloon sheep sheering' and 'discover your dinner plate' provide real-life connections to the farm-to-fork journey. The programme, designed by experts from the Country Trust, the UK's leading agricultural education charity, offers a framework through which to explore health, cooking, growing, animals, ethics, care for the environment, nature and much more. The sensory and wide-ranging connections of the farm nurture their relationship with nature and provide benefits for their mental and physical health. 50 Fantastic Ideas for Farm Activities can be used to provide inspiration for a farm theme in the classroom, for activities to complement a class growing project, to introduce ways to use food, farming or natural themes to strengthen aspects of the curriculum, or to support a farm visit. This book will show practitioners how to make exploring every aspect of a farm-to-fork journey a fun and foundational part of any setting.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Seeds we eat
Cook flatbreads
Build a scarecrow
Colours of the earth
Feel the flour
Seed sorting
Seed number patterns
Fruit and vegetables
Quick fruit ice cream
Underground, above ground
Sink or float
Wassail!
Make a fruit rainbow
Cress farm
What’s wrong with wonky?
Vegetable dye
Pumpkin explorer
Yoghurt pot pea sprouts
Vegaerobics!
Chitting potatoes
Pea podding
Potato monsters
Lucky dip garden
Herb dip
Livestock
Balloon sheep shearing
Can you herd the sheep?
Make your own woolly sheep
Butter disco
Milk a rubber glove
How heavy is their dinner?
Mix feed
Pigs in mud
In the chicken coop
Egg sorting
Make a nest
Beak challenge
Chicken enrichment
Feather painting
On the farmyard
Stone Soup
Smelly bags
Discover your dinner plate
Biggest in the barn
Dressed to farm
Sounds of the farm
A new story for the Little Red Hen
Soil search
Junk tractor
Seasonal calendar
Combine creative dance
Field shapes
Horse power
Farm or not farm?
All the small things