Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Camp for Dolls Interested In Farming

Left, beekeeping. Next, gardening. Center Right, printable seed packs.
Far Right, sculpting fruits and veggies for doll play. These are activities
we have included in the index below.
 
        This doll camp introduces kids to life on the farm, agricultural studies and farm activities typically associated with animal husbandry and agriculture. In 2022, I will be building up reading artifacts here for young students to learn from while playing farm with their dolls. These artifacts are on 5th grade reading level.

General Topics: Life On A Farm:
Here is a mystery jigsaw puzzle for you to solve.
Reading/Lesson Plans/Crafts: The Care of Animals: Articles by Hunt edited by Grimm
Chickens: The chicken is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet.
Sheep: are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. An adult female is referred to as a ewe , an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a young sheep as a lamb.
Goats: The goat is a member of the animal family Bovidae and the tribe Caprini, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat. It is one of the oldest domesticated species of animal, according to archaeological evidence that its earliest domestication occurred in Iran at 10,000 calibrated calendar years ago.
Mules: are the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare). Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes. Of the two first-generation hybrids between these two species, a mule is easier to obtain than a hinny, which is the offspring of a female donkey (jenny) and a male horse (stallion).
Cattle and Dairy Cows:  are large domesticated bovines. They are most widespread species of the genus Bos. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult males are referred to as bulls.
Pigs: often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus Sus, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) or a distinct species.
Ducks and Geese: ducks are species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and geese, which are members of the same family.
Turkeys and Guineas: The earliest turkeys evolved in North America over 20 million years ago. They share a recent common ancestor with grouse, pheasants, and other fowl. The wild turkey species is the ancestor of the domestic turkey, which was domesticated approximately 2,000 years ago.
Dogs On The Farm: a domesticated descendant of the wolf, and is characterized by an upturning tail. The dog is derived from an ancient, extinct wolf, and the modern wolf is the dog's nearest living relative.
Reading/Lesson Plans/Crafts for Bee Keeping:
Reading/Lesson Plans/Crafts: Gardening: 
Farm Themed Writing Assignments:
Changes In Farming:
Natural History Reading Artifacts In Agriculture & Mining: Exotic and Unusual Crops: spices, oils, trees and some valuable minerals.
  1. Cinnamon - Cinnamon has been used by man since Biblical times and is often mentioned in both the Old and the New Testaments.
  2. Spices - Spices add the zip and flavor to many of our foods. Without the familiar pepper, mustard, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves, as well as countless other less known spices, our meals would be flat and tasteless.
  3. Rubber From America - To the natives of tropical America must be given the credit for the first utilization of the latex from which rubber is made.
  4. Story of Wheat - Wheat is today the commonest and one of the most important of all grains and cereals.
  5. Cloves - There is an old saying that cloves will grow only where they can see the sea.
  6. Vanilla - A climbing orchid, native to the hot moist forests of tropical America, is the chief source of vanilla. This favorite flavoring is obtained from the fully grown but unripe cured fruits.
  7. Ginger - Long before Europeans were acquainted with the wonders of spices, the East knew and honored ginger the same ginger that we know today in gingerbread and gingersnaps.
  8. Allspice - Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could get an ice cream that would taste like chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla all at the same time? Unfortunately there is no such ice cream, but there is a spice that tastes like cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg all mixed up!
  9. The Cloth That Grows On Trees - Money may not grow on bushes, but clothing sometimes grows on trees!
  10. Mustard - it's uses and history
  11. The Story of Common Salt - One of the most valuable and useful of minerals is Common Salt. No one knows when man first began its use.
  12. From Chiclero To Chewing Gum - The chew in your chewing gum came originally from the damp and humid jungles of Central or South America, or perhaps from far-away Malaya.
Interesting Video About Animals On The Farm:
Farmers & Gardeners From Around The Globe Share On Youtube:
Music About Farmers and Farm Life: There are many songs about farm life, below is just a small sample...
Future Farmers of America at YouTube:
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