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Farm theme for 3 and 4 year olds: a week of activities

A farm theme lesson plan for 3 and 4 year olds: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (ten to fifteen minutes, with a child holding the book), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for 3 and 4 year oldsThe whole farm week

A day of the farm theme with 3 and 4 year olds

  1. Arrival, sign-in, and a job from the helper chart.
  2. Circle (ten to fifteen minutes): calendar, “Which animals live on a farm, and what do they say?”, sing “old macdonald had a farm”, then At the Farm.
  3. Centers, with the craft at one table: paper-bag barn.
  4. Letter F: trace it once, then hunt for F around the room.
  5. Snack: English Muffin Pizzas, with children pouring and counting.
  6. Outside: animal walk.
  7. Rest, then a longer read-aloud: The Little Red Hen.

Farm circle time

  1. Good morning song, then say each name together.
  2. Calendar: the day, the date and the weather.
  3. Ask: “Which animals live on a farm, and what do they say?”
  4. Sing: Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
  5. Read: At the Farm (level 3).

Threes and fours: ten to fifteen minutes; let a child hold the book.

Farm theme books

  • At the Farm (level 3, free on peabody.kids): The farm animals one by one, in a pattern children can say along.
  • Ten Pigs (level 1, free on peabody.kids): Counting pigs to ten, for the math corner.
  • Fox and the Hen (level 1, free on peabody.kids): A hen and a fox who are kind to each other.
  • The Little Red Hen (read aloud, level 4): A read-aloud: who will help? The hen bakes bread alone.

Farm craft: Paper-bag barn

You need (5): paper lunch bag, red paint, white paper strips, animal stickers or drawings, glue stick.

  1. Paint the bag red and let it dry.
  2. Glue white strips on as the barn doors.
  3. Put the animals in the barn and name each one.

With a grown-up. No heat, nothing hot.

Farm song: Old MacDonald Had a Farm

The words

Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on that farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O! With a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, Everywhere a moo-moo, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

Traditional; public domain. From Top 52 nursery rhymes with lyrics.

Farm snack

English Muffin Pizzas from the Peabody Kitchen: picture steps, allergy swaps and safety lines on the recipe.

Letter F activities

FfF is for farm. Print the two pages (a trace page and a color page).

Threes and fours: trace F and f once, then find F in the room and in the book.

Outside activity: Animal walk

Walk like each farm animal: a hen pecks, a cow plods, a pig rolls, a horse gallops.

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Checked 2026-10-30