CURIOSITY CONNECTION:
CREATIVE PLAY EXPERIENCES


Pennsylvania Farmland - An apple orchard and vegetable garden, complete with life-size (and sometimes larger than life-size) animals offers a chance to discover what lives on a farm both above and below the ground.

Suggested Play Scenarios:

  Do you want to plant a vegetable garden? What garden tools do you need? How do you plant a garden? How many carrots will you plant? How many cabbages? Time to pick the vegetables and drive to the farmer's market!
Do you want to plant a vegetable garden? What garden tools do you need? How do you plant a garden? How many carrots will you plant? How many cabbages? Time to pick the vegetables and drive to the farmer's market!
    Do you want to go on a picnic? Who will come? Where will you go? What food will you take? Will everything fit in the truck? Who will drive? Who will choose the music on the radio? Can you take turns?
  Feeding time! The farm animals are so hungry! What will you feed them? Do they all need the same amount? What do the animals like best? The rabbit family in the forest is hungry too. How many rabbits are there? What will you give each one to eat?
    Can you climb the hill to pet the farm animals? How do they feel? Which is the biggest? Smallest? What sounds do they make? Can you ride on the animals? Can
you go under them? In front? Behind?
  Oh! Here's a book about farm animals! Do you want to read the story? What do we call
a grown-up cow? A baby cow? A grown-up sheep? A baby sheep? ...
  Can you find a butterfly on the farm? What's the name of the butterfly? Try to catch him in your hand! Can you be a butterfly? How does it move? I know a book about a butterfly called The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Do you want to read it?
    Wow! You can go underground on the farm! What animals live underground? What else can you find underground? Can you go to the forest and find some animals that live underground? Do you think they'd like to have a home under the farm? Do you want to be an animal that lives underground?


 

 

 

 

 

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