Farm Storytime
- Elizabeth Abbott Dake
- Sep 2, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 7, 2023
There are so many amazing resources for farm-themed storytimes. Here are some of my favorites.
Action Rhymes
“Farm Chores”
Sung to "All Around the Mulberry Bush"
This is the way we feed the hens,
Feed the hens, feed the hens.
This is the way we feed the hens,
So early in the morning.
This is the way we gather the eggs....
This is the way we brush the horse....
This is the way we hoe in the garden...
This is the way we drive the tractor....
This is the way we sit down quietly ...
"Oats and Beans and Barley Grows"
Oats and Beans and Barley Grows
Oats and Beans and Barley Grows
Do you or I or anyone know?
How Oats and Beans and Barley Grows.
First the farmer plants his seed
Then he stands and takes his ease
He stamps his foot
And claps his hands
And turns around to view the land
Oats and Beans and Barley Grows
Oats and Beans and Barley Grows
Do you or I or anyone know?
How Oats and Beans and Barley Grows.
Sung to "All Around the Mulberry Bush"
All around the strawberry fields (Movement: Point in a circle to show all around)
We picked some juicy berries (Movement: hands reaching out and picking berries)
We brought them home and washed them off, (Movement: hands rubbing together mimicking washing)
Pop! Go the berries! (have kids jump up on "pop" and bring your hands up in surprise)
Books
Clip-Clop by Nicola Smee
Do Cows Meow by Salina Yoon
Farm Animals by Sims Taback, Giant Fold-out Book
Farmyard Beat by Lindsey Craig
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert
How Kind! By Mary Murphy
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson
Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant by April Pulley Sayre
This Little Chick by John Lawrence
What Will Grow? By Jennifer Ward
Flannels
Create a horse, hen, sheep, pig, cow, and tree flannel to use with this flannel song.
I had a Horse, the Horse pleased me
I fed my Horse under yonder tree
The Horse went Fiddle-I-Fee
I had a Hen, the hen pleased me
I fed my Hen under yonder tree
The Hen went chimney-chuck, chimney-chuck
The Horse went Fiddle-I-Fee
I had Sheep, the Sheep pleased me
I fed my Sheep under yonder tree
The Sheep went baa-baa, baa-baa
The Hen went chimney-chuck, chimney-chuck
The Horse went Fiddle-I-Fee
I had a Pig, the Pig pleased me
I fed my Pig under yonder tree
The Pig went oink-oink, oink-oink
The Sheep went baa-baa, baa-baa
The Hen went chimney-chuck, chimney-chuck
The Horse went Fiddle-I-Fee
I had a Cow, the Cow pleased me
I fed my Cow under yonder tree
The Cow went moo-moo, moo-moo
The Pig went oink-oink, oink-oink
The Sheep went baa-baa, baa-baa
The Hen went chimney-chuck, chimney-chuck
The Horse went Fiddle-I-Fee
“When Cows Wake Up in the Morning”
Create a cow, pig, sheep, chicken, and horse flannel to use with this flannel song.
When cows wake up in the morning
They always say good day
When cows wake up in the morning
They alway say good day.
What do they say?
MOOOO!
That is what they say.
What do they say?
MOOO!
That is what they say.
Pigs / Oink
Sheep/ Baa
Chickens/ Cluck
Horse/ Neigh
Playlist
“Farmer’s Market” by Laura Doherty
“Sail Away Ladies” with Dan Zane and Elizabeth Mitchell (CIRCLE SONG)
“Vegetable Party” by Laura Doherty
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