Looking for fun and engaging ways to build literacy skills with your preschoolers? These Farm Literacy Activities bring skill practice to life with a playful farm theme. Children can work on letter recognition with a free set of Farm Alphabet Puzzles, practice phonological awareness skills through rhyming, syllables, and beginning sounds games, and strengthen sequencing by retelling simple farm stories in order. You’ll also find activities that target listening skills, such as an I Spy game, plus more alphabet practice that keeps kids excited about learning. These farm-themed resources make literacy time both meaningful and fun.
Find more activities for your farm thematic unit here!
Farm Alphabet Puzzles (Free Printable)
Start with this fun freebie! The Farm Alphabet Puzzles are designed to help children recognize letters in both uppercase and lowercase. Each puzzle has a farm scene that kids will piece together by matching letters on the puzzle pieces to the letters on the mat. It’s a hands-on way to practice alphabet skills while also building visual discrimination and problem-solving.
There are 6 puzzles in this download with 3 uppercase letter puzzles and 3 lowercase letter puzzles. Print the puzzles and mats and cut apart the puzzle pieces. Perfect for the Literacy Center, arrival activities, or small group. Children can work on them independently or with a partner.
Click below to download your free set of Farm Alphabet Puzzles and add a little farm fun to your alphabet practice!
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Rhyming on the Farm
Rhyming is one of the best ways to boost phonological awareness. In this activity, children listen for pairs of rhyming words and match them. This set includes farm-themed pictures, such as pig (wig), goat (boat), barn (yarn), eggs (legs). It’s playful, silly, and gets children listening carefully to the sounds in words. Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
Farm Syllables Activity
Clap it out on the farm! In this activity, children practice breaking words into syllables. They’ll count syllables with farm vocabulary words, and clip the number of syllables in the word. This helps them tune into word parts and preparing them for later reading and spelling. Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
Sequencing Farm Stories
Sequencing activities help children learn how stories have a beginning, middle, and end. In this farm sequencing set, children put picture cards in order to show the chick hatching from an egg. Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
I Spy Listening Skills
“I Spy” is a classic favorite for preschoolers, and this version helps children practice listening carefully to sounds. The farm-themed I Spy game encourages children to focus on details and follow directions—all important pre-reading skills. The I Spy Listening Games are one of the most popular PreKinders resources! Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
More Alphabet Fun
This alphabet activity lets children explore letters with tractors. Children will match the letter on the tractor to the letter on the mat. Have children match uppercase to uppercase or lowercase to lowercase, or mix it up and match uppercase to lowercase. Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
With this cow spinner alphabet game, children will spin the spinner, say the letter, and find the letter on their mat. You can have children stamp it with a bingo marker or use manipulatives to mark the letters. If they land on a cow, children get to say “moo” like a cow! Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
Beginning Sounds on the Farm
This activity focuses on listening for the first sounds in words. Children match the pictures on the tractors to the correct letter, strengthening their phonemic awareness and preparing them for future reading success. Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
Farm Themed Journal Pages
Writing and drawing in journals is a wonderful way for preschoolers to begin expressing their thoughts and ideas. These farm-themed journal pages give children a simple prompt or picture to spark their creativity. Journal pages help children practice early writing skills, fine motor control, and storytelling—all while keeping with the fun farm theme. Get this activity in the Farm Math & Literacy pack here.
Bring Farm Literacy to Your Classroom
These farm-themed activities are an easy way to make literacy practice engaging and hands-on for your preschoolers. From free alphabet puzzles to rhyming, syllables, sequencing, and beginning sounds, you’ll have everything you need to cover a wide range of early literacy skills.
👉 Download the free Farm Alphabet Puzzles to get started right away.
👉 If you’d like even more ready-to-use activities, check out the Farm Literacy Bundle with printables for rhyming, syllables, sequencing, I Spy listening skills, and more.
With these resources, literacy time becomes meaningful, playful, and fun—just the way learning in Pre-K should be!