Harvest and Farm Preschool Activities, Games, and Lessons

Free Preschool and Kindergarten Harvest and Fruit and Vegetables Activities 

In the Field (Working the field)
Scarecrows
Apples  (On a Tree)
Pumpkins and Corn (Above Ground)
Below Ground (Potatoes)
Harvest (Fruits and Vegetables)

Fall and Harvest Learning Center Ideas

Dramatic Play Area

Block Center

Add farm machines, a large piece of brown felt, small plastic toy vegetables, scarecrows, and some small straw bales.

Discovery/Science Center

Provide resealable bags, paper towels, and pumpkin, and bean seeds. Let children use magnifying glasses to look at the different seeds and sort them. Let each child choose a seed, place it on a wet paper towel, and place it inside a plastic bag. Label the bag with their name and tape it on a window. Wet the towels from time to time to keep them moist. As soon as the roots begin to grow, let children transfer the seeds to a cup of soil and continue to care for them.

Fine Motor Skills

Provide a bucket with fresh corn and an empty container. Let children pull off the husk from the corn. Cook the corn for a yummy snack.

Sensory Table and Fine Motor Skills

Provide different root vegetables (potatoes, radishes, carrots, and some pumpkins) together with some vegetable brushes and some towels. Let children use the brushes to clean the vegetables. 

In the Field and Tractor Preschool Activities and Games (Activities and printables are available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Planting (Science)

Tractors and Farm Machines (Oral Language / Sorting)

On the Field Small World Play (Fine Motor Skills)

Wheelbarrows (Large Motor Skills)

Children hold a partner’s feet as they walk on their hands like a wheelbarrow. Invite children to carry different items to a specified location.  

Harvest and Corn Activities and Games (Activities and printables are available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

What's in the box? (Oral Language)

Put a variety of fruits and vegetables and other food items such as a plastic egg in a box or bag. Ask children to grab and feel one item without looking and guess what it is.

Paint with dried corn and straw (Fine Motor Skills)

Dry several empty cobs of corn in the sun. Once fully dried, allow children to use them to make corn cob prints. They can also make paintings by using the dried cobs as paintbrushes along with pieces of straw.

Estimating Corn Kernels (Estimating/Counting)

Place some popcorn kernels in a small clear bowl. Let children estimate how many kernels are in the bowl. Write their answers on a piece of paper. Empty the bowl and count kernels together.

Corn Kernels Picking (Fine Motor Skills)

Place popcorn or popcorn kennels in a small bowl. Let children use tweezers to pretend to be crows picking corn. Let them place the corn on the crow printout.

Foods from a Farm and Harvest Activities and Games (Activities and printables are available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Making Butter 
Make some homemade butter with your child. Fill a large jar about 1/4 full with whipping cream and take turns with your child shaking it until the cream turns to butter. Spread the butter on whole wheat crackers or bread for a delicious snack.

Free harvest preschool and kindergarten coloring pages and worksheets

Farm Printables

Little Boy Blue Rhyme and Coloring	Cow Coloring Page	Time for Bed Rhyme and Activity	Baby Farm Animals Crafts and Activities

Farm Animals Song:

Farm Sounds
(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus) Teach your child the sounds that various farm animals make by singing the following song with him or her:

The cows in the barn go moo, moo, moo,

Moo, moo, moo,

Moo, moo, moo,

The cows in the barn go moo, moo, moo,

All around the farm.

The pigs in the pen go oink, oink, oink,

The hens in the coop go cluck, cluck, cluck,

The lambs on the hill go baa, baa, baa,

The ducks on the pond go quack, quack, quack,

The horses in the corral go neigh, neigh, neigh,

Move Like You Are A . . .
Ask your child to move as if he or she is a galloping horse, pig wallowing in mud, chicken pecking at dirt, etc. Encourage your child to make the noise of the animal that he or she is imitating at the same time.

Thumbprint Chicks
Pour yellow paint into a shallow container. Have your child gently dip his or her finger in the paint. Then, have your child press his or her finger on a sheet of a paper, making one or more fingerprints. Add facial and feet details. These make great note cards.

Animal Sorting
Provide pictures of both farm animals and zoo animals and have your child sort them according to whether they are found on a farm or in a zoo.