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Small world: the farm Activity
3-4 · 4-5 years · 35 min
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A barn, a field, a pond and a set of animals is enough to start. The animals do not have to be realistic — a sheep with a bus inside is fine, and usually better, because the rules of this farm are the child's own. Build the base with them rather than for them, so the world is partly theirs from the first minute. Add one element a week: a gate, a fence, a tractor. Stories about the farm come out of the play afterwards, and those are the ones worth writing down.
Tags
- Themed activity
- Understanding the world
- Communication and language
- Expressive arts and design
- 3-4 yrs
- 4-5 yrs
- No materials needed
- Small group
- Both
Group size and setting are recorded and shown but are not filters in v1 (SPEC 8).
Record details
- Duration
- 35 minutes (20 min or more)
- Last checked
- 2026-10-04 — 18 days ago
- Curated
- 2026-10-04 by nursery-curation-agent
- Review state
- Partly checked
- Source confirmed
- not yet
- Link status
- path open
- Fingerprint
7181970b- Publisher
- Nursery Resources
Card photograph: "Farm small world play" by emmacraig1 is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.
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