Farm Animal Activities at 22 Months

Last week Vito had a great time learning about farm animals.  I find it quite fascinating how my kids can easily learn a concept just by using animal figures.  It took me years to convince myself to invest in these animal figures.  We didn’t have them till Mavi was 3yrs old.  Vito is lucky enough to be able to play with these at a very young age.  So from reading books and making sounds, I levelled up the learning approach to widen his vocabulary, learn phonic sounds, practise logic and more.

Here are Vito’s TOP 6 farm animal activities:

Farm Animal Beginning Letter Sounds

Identifying the beginning letter sound of each animals. 

Materials used: Hape Alphabet PuzzleHape Alphabet Puzzle, farm animal figures (Schleich)

Rooster Craft

Read about our activity here.

Pouring, Transferring and Scooping Fruits

Vito enjoyed this a lot! He loves pouring the fruits here and there!  I was even surprised that he can identify the apple even if it’s green color!

Materials used: Fruit counters from Learning Resources, buckets, scoops, wooden tray

I suggest you use a mat, tray or rug when you work on this so that the fruits will not roll in the floor.

Pig Mud Play

Materials used: pig figures from Safari Toobs, chocolate yogurt, spoon (he wouldn’t want to use his hand)

Farm Animals Matching Cards

More details of this post here and the link to the card’s file download.

Sheep and the Wool

I mentioned in my Rooster Craft that Vito loves using glue.  So we did work on the sheep craft and used cotton balls as wool.

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Simple Rooster Craft and {Learn & Play Play Link Up}

Vito and I are doing lots of new things since September started and one of which is trying out some simple crafts for motor skills development and sensory play.  

Since we’re having farm animals this week… we made a colorful-feathered rooster.  We call this in the Phils “sarimanok”, a mythical legendary creature that symbolizes the closeness to the spiritual being of the native people.

Materials are pretty simple:

• colored craft feathers
• glue
• a coloring page of a rooster
• corn kernels (optional)

Let your little one apply glue to the picture.  I suggest this kind of glue, with bigger mouthpiece so it will be easy for them to squeeze out the glue.

Don’t restrict, just allow them apply the glue anywhere they want (as long as it is within the tray).    This large tray is from Ikea.  Did you know that by using the glue, they learn the concept of cause and effect? Squeezing it results to glue coming out. My son loves watching the glue drops from the mouthpiece!

And Vito loves opening and closing the the container.

                                               

Place the feather into the image.

Put corn kernels on it as well if its available.

My Vito often stops and observes his hand for stains, dirt or anything that sticks on it. 

And here it is.. my Vito’s first craft ever! We admired his work afterwards, and he even showed it to Mavi and the Dad.  Love that he is showing a sense of accomplishment at a young age.

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Pinocchio Books That Were Turned Into Movie from My Bright Firefly

Shelves for 18 Months from Everyday Begins New

Pumpkin Playdough Provocation from Mama’s Happy Hive

Fall Apple Tree Craft from A Little Pinch of Perfect

 

I’d love to try any of these activities for my youngest this season!

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FREE Farm Animals Matching cards

We are having a Farm Unit this week and Vito is loving these farm animals matching cards.  This is the first time we’re using matching cards.

I’m using the 3 period lesson for this.  To know more about it read it here.

He was attentive for the first four animals and wouldn’t settle right after.  I took that as a sign of tiredness so we need to stop and did it the next day.  And yes, he’s was still interested and even knows the routine of rolling the rug and placing the cards!

I am loving this wonder years stage!  This is how I set up our materials. Just place all our animals in a basket together with the cards. You can get animal figures as big as these from Schleich.

If you would like to own a copy, you can download the cards from here.  Hope you find it useful!

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