Reception Farms

Bring your outdoor area to life with exciting farm-themed play, from farmhouse dining and tractor tracks to animal footprints and vegetable growing. Each activity comes with adult and child-led opportunities to deepen learning, helping children explore farm life through hands-on discovery, critical questions, and creative investigations.

Lesson Plans

Farms outdoor enhancement plan

Get your children engaging with your outdoor provision by exploring farmhouse dining, agricultural fields, animal footprints and vegetable growing. Each of these farm themed play ideas also offer adult-led learning opportunities to deepen children’s learning through hands-on exploration.

Lines of enquiry:

What is life on a farm like?
What do farmers do?
Which animals live on a farm?
How do vegetables grow?

Farms outdoor activity bank

These outdoor activities give your children the opportunity to investigate the way tractors move and discover more about farm animals and their young. All key questions and extension opportunities are detailed and resources included to make bringing these activities to life quick and easy!

Lines of enquiry:

Why do tractor tyres have deep treads?
How are tractors built?
What is farming like in different seasons?
What are different animal body parts called?
What is the name of different animal babies?

Reception Topic Planning Guidance

Use this guidance document alongside our planning to ensure you are able to use them in a way that works for your setting and get the most from the plans.

Before you get started

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