Farm Activities for Preschoolers

There are so many fun farm activities for preschoolers to explore. Even if you don’t live in a rural area it’s still fun to learn about all the barnyard animals that live there and all the different types of food a farmer grows.

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Farm Activities for Preschoolers

Where Does Milk Come From?

Here’s a great YouTube video to share with your little ones, Where Does Milk Come From? In this cute 5-minute video, two kids on a farm talk about what kind of cows give milk and then go into a barn to show your child the process of where milk comes from. Since it’s a young boy and his brother narrating, it’s like a friend explaining where milk comes from to your child in a way they will understand it.

Visit Local Farms

In the fall, many farms are open to the public (maybe for a fee) and have FUN activities for preschoolers such as:

• corn mazes
• petting zoos
• pumpkin patches
• hayrides
• pony rides

Pretend to Milk a Cow

• Steps
  1. Fill a latex glove with water and then tie off the end. Add a string and tie it to the back of a chair or other similar item.
  2. Print up a picture of a cow and tape it to the back of a chair. You can download a picture of a cow below to print out.

Cow Printable – pdf

3. Put a container under the “udder”.
4. Milk the cow

• Make Butter and Whipping Cream
  • All you need to make butter is to pour some warm heavy whipping cream into a jar and then let your children work off some of that energy by shaking it, and shaking it, and shaking it some more! – lol. The more it’s shaken, the firmer it gets. (You may need to eventually mix it with an electric mixer if shaking doesn’t firm it up enough.) When the cream gets firm, add a little salt (season to taste). You may want to add a drop of yellow food coloring to make it look more like the kids are used to.
  • Whipping cream is made just like the butter above, except you add sugar instead of salt and no food coloring. ( Both the homemade butter and whipping cream make a nice treat for Thanksgiving dinner)

• Farm Scavenger Hunt
  • A free printable of the Farm Scavenger Hunt is posted below. Print up one for each player. If you live in a rural area with farms, take a family ride and see if you can find all the items listed.
  • If you live in a city without many farms, have your child try to find the items listed on the Farm Scavenger Hunt in the books you read together.
  • The download is found in our Free Printable Resource Library.

FREE Farm Scavenger Hunt pdf – Resource Library

• Watch the movie Charlotte’s Web

• Popcorn on the Cob
  • It wasn’t until a few years ago I even knew this was a thing. The corn you pop is still on the cob. This link is for one on Amazon, but you may be able to find some locally.

Farm Craft Projects

Muddy Pig Craft

1. Print a copy of the Muddy Pig outline (see below) onto pink construction paper ( you may have to trim it a little to get it to fit copier paper size)
2. Mix some coffee grounds into some brown paint.
3. 3. Paint “mud” on your pig.

Muddy Pig Outline

You can find the download of the Muddy Pig Printable in our Free Printable Resource Library

Muddy Pig Outline pdf – Resource Library

More Farm Craft Ideas

• Fingerprint Sheep Craft for Kids (Crafty Morning) is a cute farm craft project made with fingerprints.
• Painting with Tractors (The Seasoned Mom) is a fun way for preschoolers to create a cool looking art project made of tracks from a toy tractor.

Farm Books for Preschoolers

• Let’s Go Visiting by Sue Williams
• Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
• The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
• Going to Sleep on The Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
  • This is an adorable book where a father explains to his son how the different farm animals sleep.
• Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? by Joan L. Nodset
• The Jazz Fly by Matthew Gollub
  • This book introduces Jazz music mixed with farm animal sounds
• The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble
• Millie the Cow Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier

Farm Songs for Preschoolers

• Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• B-I-N-G-O
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• 5 Little Ducks

Below you will find a link to a collection of more preschool favorite Farm Animal songs on Spotify.

Farm Preschool Songs on our Tothood 101 Spotify Playlist

For more ideas check out :

• Fall Theme for Preschoolers
• Thanksgiving Activities for Preschoolers