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Kindergarten Farm Games

When teaching your kindergarten class about farms and farm animals, be sure to organize several games to play so they can have fun while learning about farm life. Games not only add educational value, but they also build social skills in young children. Awarding prizes, such as farm animal stickers and pencils, to all game winners will have the children enthusiastically waiting for the next farm game.
  1. Animal Sound Contest

    • After teaching about several farm animals, such as a cow, pig, horse, goat and chicken, tell the kindergartners they are going to have an animal sound contest. Each child can pick her favorite farm animal to imitate. Give the children five minutes to practice their animal sounds. One at a time, each child comes to the front of the class and imitates her best animal impression. She must say what the animal is and why it is her favorite. Award prizes for the best, funniest, silliest, loudest and scariest animal sounds.

    Farm Bingo

    • Play a game of farm bingo using picture bingo cards to help the children learn the different things they can find on a farm. Include pictures of items like a barn, a tractor, a pig, a cow, a farm truck and a rooster on the bingo cards. Write down the items on small slips of paper and place them in a bowl. Give each child a bingo card and several bingo markers. Call out the farm words and have the children mark them on their cards. Show the children the word that goes with each picture when you call it out. Instead of having students call out the word "Bingo" when they have a row of five matches, instruct them to make the sound of a farm animal.

    Farm Animal Egg Hunt

    • Teach the children about chickens and eggs, and plan an egg hunt in the classroom. Place different types of small, plastic farm animals inside plastic eggs. Hide the eggs all over the classroom and have the children find as many as they can. Be sure each child finds at least two eggs. After everyone finds the eggs, have them open each one up and pull out the plastic farm animals. One at a time the kindergartner must stand up and say the name of the farm animals he found in his eggs. Another variation to the game is to have the children make the sounds of the animals they find.

    Farm-Themed Felt Board

    • Make a farm-themed felt board using a large sheet of green felt wrapped around a piece of cardboard. Draw lines to create squares on the green felt. In each square, write a different farm item name, such as tractor, donkey, pig and dog. Cut the items out of colored felt and place Velcro on the back of each item. Have the children come up to the board one at a time and place the items in the corresponding squares on the felt board.

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