I Went Walking Tot Bag

My new tot bag is based on the book, I Went Walking by Sue Williams. This was a simple bag to create since I had most of the items on hand and I didn't have to make much. I based many of the activities on farm animals since most of the animals can be found on a farm. Here is what I included...

I created storytelling props by using some clipart that I had from my Mailbox subscription and I scanned the image of the "walker" from the book. I colored the clipart on my computer and used the colors from the story. I then laminated the character and added velcro so we could use them on our felt board.

The animals can also be used for a sorting activity that includes some fine-motor practice. I will place the animals inside bowls and have my tot use tongs to place pom poms into them. At first, these will be just for the practice of using tongs, then we will use it for a color sorting activity.

I added a farm animal matching activity which I made magnetic from Frogs in my Pocket (link below). I printed two copies of the animals and laminated them. Kaleb can match the animals to the pictures.

Another magnetic activity I made was a size sort game that I found from Creative Preschool Resources (link below). I know Kaleb is too young to sort the sizes of the animals right now but he will be able to do this later. For now, we will use these to practice animal sounds. He just loves to stick the pictures on the magnet board.

I also added farm hand puppets and sewing cards for retelling the story and hand-eye coordination. These were bought from a store so I didn't make them myself. However, if you do not have any puppets or sewing cards, these would be easy to reproduce (links at bottom).

The final activity I added was Little People farm animals. Again, we had these on hand and I didn't have to buy anything. I will use these for the sensory bin. Currently, our sensory bin has shredded paper in it. I will place these animals in the bin and have my tot  find the animals. These would also be good in a rice or bean sensory bin.

To see my tot bag in action, please check here. I hope you enjoyed this addition to my tot bags. To read about my other literature based tot bags, please check here.

Links to Create your Own

Creative Preschool Resources - this is a great free printable pack that I found the size sort. There are other activities that you can print as well.

2 Teaching Mommies - another free printable farm pack. They have some great units!

Lawteedah - another free printable farm pack.

Frogs in my Pockets Blog - this is where I found the farm animal matching game that I laminated and added magnets to.

3 Dinosaurs - has a great farm printable pack with several downloads. I love her stuff.

Zitman Fam - make your own farm puppets, complete with patterns!

Gratefully Growing Grace - if you don't want to make large puppets, you can see her farm animal finger puppets here.

Love and Lollipops - has a great farm sensory bin complete with popsicle stick barn.

Creative Preschool Resources - has a simple pig craft which can be added. We are planning to do this and I may let them paint the pig with chocolate pudding!

Worldsapart (me) - here's a link to my pinterest farm activities for tots. I am still trying to figure out how to add the pinterest button, it just doesn't want to work for me.