Baby Chickens come in springtime
View our Schleich horses and farm animal toys for creative pretend play.
It is springtime down here on the farm and we are starting to see newborn calves and chick hatch-lings. If you were to see all the new life, you would agree that there is nothing more adorable than baby farm animals. While I was in the feed store picking up some animal feed, I snapped some photos of the new baby chickens they had.
When I was a child, I grew up on my parents’ farm in Colorado and they would take me to this same country feed store to pick up supplies. I will never forget the day the feed store offered free baby chickens with the purchase of a bag of chicken feed. My parents decided it was time to add some chickens to our farmyard. I can not even begin to describe how excited my little sister and I were to have these baby chickens coming home with us. The fun didn’t stop there as we got to help sprinkle the chicken feed, watch them grow and then collect eggs once they were grown. There is always that special happiness that comes to children when they are around baby farm animals.
Kids love baby farm animals!
If you do not live on a farm, your child can still experience the same enthusiasm that comes around baby and adult farm animals with toy play sets. Pretend play is an important growing tool for your kids as they learn by imagining and doing. Research has shown that pretend play provides children with microcosm for life that encourages them to take the skills they have learned in classroom lessons and apply them to meaningful life activities. When your child engages in pretend play, he or she is actively experimenting with the social and emotional roles of life. Through cooperative play, they will also learn how to take turns, share responsibility and creatively problem solve. Imagination can often be as important as math, science or reading. Pretend play helps develop many important skills that boost a child’s learning and success.
Schleich Farm Animal Toys
Nurture pretend play with a blend of farm life to spark their imagination. Our Schleich farm animal toys are a great toy play set to turn to. A very popular and best selling toy line, the Schleich farm animal toys are a great way to teach your kids about the different animals. Ask them what sound the chickens make and where the horses sleep. Have them sort the different colored cattle into the different corrals. This is also a great way to introduce them to responsibility. Show them how to feed the animals, tend to the cattle and take the horses exercising on the trail. Explain how milk comes from dairy cows, eggs come from chickens and vegetables come from well cared for gardens and crops.
Schleich Farm Toys
By caring for farm animals and driving a tractor through a toy play set, kids can begin to learn about occupations and hard work, as well as having an easy outlet for practicing a baby favorite – animal sounds! Our Schleich animal toys offer a large variety of different animal breeds you would find on a farm. You’ll find horses, cows, chickens, dogs, cats, ducks, geese, sheep, goats, pigs and their baby counterparts. Add the farm structures as your child is ready to start incorporating more farm responsibilities into their play time. You will find toy stables for the Schleich horses, a big red barn toy to house all the farm animals, corrals to keep the sheep inside, a truck and horse trailer for transportation, a toy rabbit hutch and plenty of trees for shade.
View our Schleich horses and farm animal toys for creative pretend play.
