Farm Party Help

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farm Invitation Wording

Horses, pigs
And cows that moo
Do say you’ll come
Cock-a-doodle-do!

Farm Party Decorations

  • Make scarecrows from old clothes to welcome your guests.
  • Raid the kids’ rooms for stuffies/ beanie babies that fit with the Barnyard theme.
  • Little “chicks” can easily be made out of yellow pompoms with a bent triangle of orange cardboard for a beak.
  • Signs can be made out of cardboard and painted : “Duck/Cow/Sheep Xing”, “Funny Farm” and your washroom can be signposted as “The Outhouse” (with crescent moon).
  • Hay bales (can be found at craft stores) or make your own by covering boxes with paper towel and covering that with yellow tissue paper , shredding the last couple layers of tissue to look like hay.
  • Old Milk Glass Bottles/Mason Jars filled with beans and seeds. If pumpkins are in season, they can be very cheap to buy and make cheery decorations.
  • Animal “Pens” can be made with wood (if you are ambitious), strips of cardboard, or sticks. Red Plastic Tablecloths can be decorated with markers and used on the wall to give the appearance of being in a barn.
  • Thrift Stores are a great sourse for things “country” such as straw wreathes and decorations made from wheat and old sunflower silk flowers and other cheap decorations.
  • Ask the children to wear their “Farm Clothes” (Flannel shirts and jeans), the girls can wear their hair in braids, and the kids can wear cowboy hats and bandanas.

 

Farm Games and Activities

  • Bob for Apples
  • Balloon animals (with paper tails, ears, faces added or with features drawn on) can be “corralled” into “pens” (with a flyswatter or hands).
  • Have a “push the egg along the floor with your nose race” (surprisingly younger children who were more gentle and slower with their nose pushing often do better than the older children.)
  • Of course “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” is a classic.
  • Target practice with a rubber chicken is fun (toss the chicken in the pail/barrel).
  • Searching for eggs is fun (the plastic snap together eggs that they sell around Easter in the dollar shops can hide lots of treats.
  • You can sing the Bingo song … or play Farmyard Bingo .
  • The Carnival “Pick a Duck” is fun especially if the rubber ducks are in a tub of water with the special number stuck to the underside.
  • Wheelbarrow racing (the classic with 2 kids or with an actually Wheelbarrow) is fun.
  • Charades are always fun…. You could let the children do the animals without the animal sounds to make it even harder.
  • Duck, duck, goose is a fun and classic game that is always great.
  • Potato Sack racing is another classic.
  • You can have Prize “Apples” (fake) hung from a tree and have the children find them and get them down and put them in the basket as a timed race.
  • Charades are always fun…. You could let the children do the animals without the animal sounds to make it even harder.
  • Duck, duck, goose is a fun and classic game that is always great.

Farmyard Bingo:

For Bingo Cards make a grid that is 5 x 5 (with an extra row on the top for the B-I-N-G-O letters) .
With the “Free” space in the very center you will need 24 farm images (x 6 – so 144 images total). 5 images will be under “B”, 5 images under “I”, 4 images under “N”, 5 images under “G”, and 5 images under “O”.
Cut all the images up and scramble them differently on each card and glue them down (you could give the kids their own series of “B” images and have them put them in the order of their choosing…and then move on to the “I” images and so on…). Each card should be different.

Sheep Sheep Come Home Game (a really fun active game):

The sheep are on one end of the yard ….at one other end of the yard there is a “Mother Sheep”. To the side is the Wolf who will run into the sheep as they run towards mom…. And try to tag a sheep (and turn them into a wolf).

Mom sheep – “Sheep, sheep come home!”Baby sheep – “But we’re afraid!”   MS – “Afraid of What?”BS – “The big bad wolf!”MS – “The big bad wolf has gone away so sheep, sheep come home!” (Sheep run at cue).

Play continues until all the Baby Sheep have turned into wolves.

Harvest game:

Attach pictures of plants, wheat, fruit and vegetables to skewers/toothpicks. On the end of the toothpicks are different colours (painted or taped slips of paper). Each colour wins or loses depending on how you set it up.

Food Ideas

  • Use a Red Gingham Tablecloth if you have one
  • Have some food on the table labeled “Chicken Feed” (Candy Corn would do nicely).
  • Be sure to serve “Farm Fresh Milk” and try a “Garden” of Raw Veg (they might eat it even!)
  • “Pigs in a Blanket” are tasty.
  • You could even have the kids eat without cutlery as the animals do!