20 Farm Small World Play Ideas for Kids

As a child, there is nothing more fun than having a little world of your own to play in. When there are no rules to follow, the only limit is your imagination! Farm animals have always been a hit with my girls, even back to the early days of singing the “Old Macdonald Had a Farm” song. If you live in a big city, or don’t have a farm up the road to visit, you can bring a little bit of the farm life into your home with small world play! These fun and creative farm small worlds are a great way to bring the farm right to your table! You can use these as part of a farm unit study, or just set them up for your kids whenever they’re in the mood for pretend play. They make terrific sensory play activities for your toddler or preschool farm theme.

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20 Farm Small World Play Ideas for Kids

You can use old coffee pods and milk cartons to build a fun chicken farm for your kids! This small world is so easy to create and uses items you already have lying around your home.

This farm play idea uses cardboard and an old clementine box to create a fun and unique small world activity.

Create cool animal enclosures and decorations using your imagination to bring a real-life farm to your small world bin.

This small farmyard uses real sensory elements such as corn and hay to create a fun and interactive sensory farm-themed small world.

This colorful small world play uses colorful rice to create a place for all your farm animals to play.

This farm theme play activity uses different textures to create a sensory barnyard experience!

If your little ones have a habit of putting everything they play with into their mouth, then you can’t go wrong with this edible farmyard small world play. The tray keeps everything contained, and this small world uses different cereals to create the farm scene!

These farm small play bins use cooked spaghetti and hay to create a fun and play experience for your kids.

Make your own barnyard out of an old shoebox to create a fun cardboard horse stable for your farm small world.

Create different enclosures for your farm animals, and even make a watering hole for them to drink at with this simple farm small world.

This creative small world uses an upcycled spool to create a farm scene right in your own home.

This farm small world play scene can be set up in just minutes, and offers a unique sensory element to the grass.

Your kids will learn all about farming and harvesting with this unique farm-themed small world play activity.

This farm set up uses fabric scraps to create a farm small world that your kids can easily change up to create different farm scenes.

This simple farm small world play takes your farm animals outside for a fun and creative outdoor small world play experience.

This farm sensory bin is the perfect small world environment for little learners! There are so many different textures and ways to play in this small bin activity.

If your child loves horses, they will love this horse small world farm activity! This small world play incorporates oats and apples; everything a horse could need!

This playdoh farm is easy to set up and there is no mess involved! You can create whatever kind of farm you’d like using the different colors of playdoh.

This snowy farm sensory bin is the perfect small world activity for the winter months! Your kids will love playing with their farm animals in the shredded paper snow.

This simple farm sensory play activity is a great way to create unique small world scenes for your little ones! Each bin represents a different farm book, that you can bring to life by adding farm animals!

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Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

This farm theme pack includes editable lesson plans and hands-on activities for a week full of math, reading, & science learning activities about farm animals and farms. It makes a great fall or spring theme for preschoolers. Watch this short video to see just a few examples of the types of activities and printables included in this set:

This set includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:

1) Upper and Lowercase Barn and Animal Letter Matching Set
2) Barn and Animal Counting Activity (Numbers 0-35)
3) Duck Dice Game
4) Mud on the Pig Counting Game
5) Farm Animal Number Cards (Numbers 0-35)
6) Baby and Adult Farm Animal Matching Cards
7) On the Farm Homemade Book Template
8) Farm Rhyming Activity
9) Farm Sorting by Size Cards
10) Farm Picture Cards
11) Farm Word Cards

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