Toddler Art: Painting a Farm

To go along with our farm theme this month, Sweet Girl and I painted a farm today.  It was a great opportunity for us to talk about what is one a farm and how fruits and vegetables grow.  Thanks so much to Laugh, Paint, Create for the awesome idea.

It was easy to create and looks pretty cool when it's all finished.

Here's how we made ours...

After I cut up four pieces of card stock, Sweet Girl painted each one a different color. 

Blue for the sky.

Yellow for the crops.

Green for the grass.

And brown for the soil.

Then we added some details to each section.

White clouds to the sky (using cotton balls).

Brown dirt to the grass (using a cotton swab).

And some crops to the yellow section (also using a cotton swab).

And here is a look at our finished farm.

We both are quite proud of the outcome!!

Our Pretend Farm - Sensory Bin and Additional Activities

Sweet Girl is having so much fun playing with our tot trays this month and actually created this sensory bin, pretend farm and corresponding activities by herself!  She just told me what to cut, where to put it, etc...

She is having lots of fun...making up stories about babies and mommies, birthday parties....all that good imaginary play!  And it's been a great learning experience.

Here's what is on our pretend farm and sensory bin:

Popcorn kernels

Barn (from our string a farm set)

Mini farm animals

Various pieces of felt cut up to be a pond, a mud puddle, grass, vegetables.

Several pieces of string (as hay for the horses)

Mini basket

The ducks in the pond.

The mommy pig and the piglets playing in the mud.

Planting a vegetable garden

Here I just grabbed an ice cube tray and cut up some pieces of felt to be our "vegetables".

She has literally spent hours playing with our farm set!!

Tot Trays - Farm Theme

We are going with a farm theme for this months trays!!  We love going to farms, so hopefully we can plan a visit this month also!!

Farm animal matching

Counting pigs

I made up these counting dot cards similar to the ones used in Montessori activities.

Mommy and baby farm animal nomenclature cards

This is from Counting Coconuts.

Stringing a farm

This is a super fun stringing activity and both of my kids love it!  The pieces are great because they can each stand on their own so you can play with them as well.  Plus, the string is great because it has a long wooden piece to help you guide the string through the whole.  

Pouring milk

I'll add some water and a little bit of white paint and Sweet Girl will practice this in the kitchen.

Cutting practice

Writing and coloring farm book

I put together a simple little farm book with some words Sweet Girl can trace, as well as pictures to read/match to the words.  And there is extra space for simple coloring too.

Here's what the inside of the book looks like.