Great Are Your Wonders: Farm Week

Well, this was just a fun week! I asked the girls what clothes farmers wear and they said shorts, pink shirt, hat and boots. So here you go!

In addition to doing our farm chores together and talking about the farms around us, we did a lot of fun crafts.

The first was a horse finger painting craft. They were too busy playing to do the cutting part, but they had a great time painting and putting on the mane. For the record, FL did cut her horse's mane with her child safety scissors - no small feat!

They turned out so cute! We had a friend over that day (and I had a friend over that day! Yay for mommy friends!) learning about horses, so it was great fun!

Most of the farming in our community is cattle farming, so we took a trip to the Farmers Market downtown to see what farmers grow.

We took home some lovely vegetables and enjoyed them for dinner.

At home, I got out the girls' play farm (lovingly given to us by Aunt Dana!), they picked out which of their stuffed animals were farm animals, added farm hats and gloves and some plastic containers and they had a blast feeding and playing with the animals.

Kerry, this is the picture where the girls said they were playing HaileyKinley. : )

Farmers help each other out! Our verse this month was "Show kindness and mercy to one another" in Zechariah 7:9. So the girls and I gladly loaded up in our farm gear to go help a dear friend.

Another friend showed us kindness by rescuing this horse for the side of the road and giving it to our family - the girls "loved" on him very well this week! He was one tired horse!

An unexpected lesson in farm critters was had when Sam captured a mouse! The girls named it Minnie and really, really wanted to keep it and bring it into the house. The lesson ended there for the girls and unfortunately for the mouse.

Minnie was undeniably cute and I did plead for her life to be spared, but life's not all rainbows and unicorns on the farm...

On a happier note, the girls did more finger painting and printables. We did painting and cutting crafts a few times during the winter, but they all ended in tears and frustration because (at the time) the girls didn't know how to use scissors, glue, paint or other materials. We have just recently revisited it. Their comprehension and motor skills have improved so, so much it amazes me. They did such a great job!

C still has difficulties with her left hand and upper body, but she is a determined and self motivated child. And she loves tractors, so was happy to do this craft! She has been asking for more every day.

They also painted, cut and glued this cute barn. I did some of the cutting, as I knew it would be overwhelming to them, but they did most of it on their own and did a fantastic job!

They came out so cute - C's are on the left and FL's on the right.

We also made cute toilet tube chickens modeled after some of our own flock. The girls picked Rhode Island Red and Barred Rock chickens to paint.

The girls got to learn that chickens have wings, a tail, comb, beak and wattle (and feet, too, but we didn't make those!).

We made haystacks for a farm appropriate treat ( and a childhood favorite!).

Taste testing is one of our favorite things to do!

As well as a "love fight" were you loving fight over the leftover batter in the bowl!

And, of course, we just enjoyed our farm and all of the chores and fun that comes with growing up on one. C and FL donned some farm girl dresses and climbed...