Simple Small Worlds: Farm World

You can read about our other Simple Small Worlds here:

Fizzing Hidden Ocean World

Froggy World

Insect World

Dinosaurs and Sticky Mud

Dragon World

Butterfly World

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S has a lot of miniature farm animals (some from miscellaneous Playmobil sets;some from a partial Safari Ltd Farm TOOBI found at a garage sale), so making a farm small world seemed only natural!

First I set to work making stalls for the animals.  These was quickly accomplished with my best friend, hot glue gun, and some popsicle sticks.

Next I needed fill materials.  I try to keep the materials in my small worlds as simple as possible, so I went with some blue cardstock paper for the pond, some gravel for the edge of the pond, some millet puff cereal we had for the horses' stall, dried coffee grounds for the pig stall, cut up dried grass from our front yard, and cut up fresh grass from our backyard.

S really enjoyed the smell of the cut grass, and as this was several weeks ago when it was still winter, it really helped our house smell a bit like summer (fresh cut grass always reminds me of summer!).

S decided to play with tiny pony first.  He took a drink from the pond first.

Then went to visit the pigs.

Finally he came back to his stall and ate some apples with the rest of his horse family.

Then S decided that everyone was tired and needed her to create beds for them throughout the world.

The beds were each individually made by S.  They consisted of a little bit of everything...

Now little pig is asleep and she's off making another bed.

She really wanted to feel the "dirt" with her foot.  :)

After each bed was carefully made, S took all the fencing and the pond, requested a piece of plastic wrap, and made this.  It's a big house with a "clear window" for Mama Pig.  S then proceeded to tell several stories about Mama Pig and how she got to her home.  Small worlds are a fabulous venue for encouraging story telling.  This bin stayed around for several days, and my husband and I enjoyed several versions of Mama Pig stories while X really enjoyed playing with the dried grass.  :)

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