If you liked Farmyard Freedom...

If your class were excited by learning all about farm animals then continue the fun with these interesting activities. Encourage their creativity and group work skills whilst you further their understanding about the needs of farm animals.

Britain's best farmer

In groups, children imagine that they are holding a competition to find the best farmer in the country. They need to come up with the criteria and work out how they judge the winner. What would the prize be?

• Create posters to promote the competition and write a letter to send to farmers explaining what they need to do on their farm to be in with a chance of winning.
   
• Imagine they can interview some of the animals that live and work on the winning farm. Split the groups in two, with some children writing the questions they would ask the different animals and the others writing the answers. Encourage them to ask about how the farmer meets the needs of the different animals.

Mindful shopping

In pairs, children carry out research to find out all they ways that humans use animals, for example honey, leather, milk and eggs. Include the animals you might find more commonly farmed in different countries, or at different times of year, for example turkeys.

• Create posters that demonstrate what they have learnt about meeting the needs of a particular farm animal, with some top tips to help people choose animal products that come from healthy, happy animals when shopping