Farm Crops
Many farms grow the fruits and vegetables we eat. Read some books about farms and the food grown there.
Display seeds and pictures of corresponding plants/vegetables. Ask students if
they can guess which seed came from which plant. If you are using real
vegetables, you can cut them open to show the seeds.
Some farms grow beans. Show children a variety of beans. Have children count them, sort them, organize them from smallest to biggest, etc.
Read a version of Jack and the Beanstalk with your child. Click HERE for an online version.
Click HERE for examples of Jack and the Beanstalk activities, such as coloring pages and crafts.
Bean Sprout Science: HERE or HERE
More Activities:
Science Center – matching game that includes pictures or drawings of orange
juice and orange tree, egg and chicken, milk and cow, corn stalk and cornflakes,
bread and wheat stalk.
Sensory – place cobs of deer corn in the sand table. Students can remove kernels
from the cob, and then explore the textures, smells, etc. of dried corn.
Art – place clean, dry eggshells in art center. Students can create mosaics using
eggshells.
Vegetable prints – the students create vegetable prints by dipping dried corn cots,
slices of carrots, pepper slices, other pieces of vegetables in tempera paint and
pressing to heavy construction paper. After print dries, student dictates or
“writes” top, bottom, or middle on the artwork.
Dramatic Play – place farm clothes (overalls, hats, etc) in housekeeping center.
Place play or real containers from orange juice, milk, bread, cereal, etc. in
kitchen center.
Farm Activities: HERE and HERE and HERE
Eat some vegetable soup and fruit salad to celebrate many of the foods grown on farms.
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