{"id":1509,"date":"2024-11-26T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:52:04","slug":"7-farm-play-activities-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/7-farm-play-activities-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Farm Play Activities for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you know our family, then you know my son is obsessed with farms and wants to be a farmer when he grows up. Unsurprisingly, we do a lot of farm play. Here are some of our recent farm- themed plays from this fall. We do all kinds of farm play including sensory, small world and dramatic play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch Sensory Play<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Nothing says “fall” like a trip to a corn maze and pumpkin patch – so I thought it would be fun to make a small world sensory tray on this theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    We have many farm resources, but I don’t have a corn maze so I made one with cardboard, pasta and shredded paper. I cut out a large square of cardboard and then glued rigatoni pasta to the cardboard in a maze shape. Once the pastas were secure, I stuffed each piece with some shredded paper and ribbon packing material I had saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The sensory mix is also DIY. It’s a mixture of rice, beans, lentils and pumpkin shaped pasta from Homesense. I painted a few swirly pastas green, but the rest is natural. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The kids definitely approved of this play and spent a few hours harvesting pumpkins and making their \u201chouses\u201d in the barn tray and the corn maze (filling them with rice mix and putting the straw \u2018roof\u2019 on top).  As a bonus, it got them very excited to go visit a corn maze in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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