The Farm Sensory Story plus 101 Sensory Rich Activities for Neurodiverse, Sensory, and PMLD Learners

Step into the gentle rhythms of farm life with The Farm, a fully resourced, inclusive sensory story with sensory-rich activities. This poetic, step-by-step guide invites learners into a world of tactile exploration, rhythmic storytelling, and global celebration.

From the Sensory Cow Craft Activity to Making Dough using a range of grains, each activity is crafted to foster connection, support engagement, and foster choice-making, and sensory engagement.

Discover Farming Culture Around the World, explore Traditional Methods, and journey through Victorian Farm History with accessible, multisensory cues.

The resource includes:
Farmyard Art & D&T projects with sensory textures
Food Technology & Healthy Eating activities
Farmyard PE & Yoga for movement and regulation
Farm-Themed Literacy, Numeracy & Sorting tasks
Plants & Life Cycles, Farm Safety, and Science prompts
Understanding the World: Farm Animals with amazing facts
Role Play, Small World Play, and Trips & Enrichment Ideas
Classroom Wall Display and a spotlight on Fairfield School, Batley

Whether you’re crafting a Sensory Farm, counting with Farmyard Songs, or exploring Sorting & Measures, this book offers a rich tapestry of inclusive learning — poetic, practical, With rhythmic verse and vivid imagery, this sensory story invites story explorers to experience the farm through a multisensory lens, to explore and connect in a space where every sense is welcome. 

Table of Contents
How to tell a Multisensory Story
The Benefits of Multisensory Storytelling
Story Props/Resources Checklist
The Farm Full Story
The Farm Fully Resourced, step-by-step Multisensory Story
Farmyard Art
The Sensory Cow
Farming Culture & Celebrations Around the World
D & T
D & T Food Technology & Healthy Eating
Trips, Visits & Enrichment Activities
Traditional Farming Methods
Farming History: Children on the Victorian Farm
Farm Themed Literacy
Farm Themed Mathematics
Farm Themed Counting Songs & Activities
Farm Themed Sorting Activities
Farm Themed Mathematics (Weights & Measures)
Farmyard PE
Farmyard Yoga
Plants & Life Cycles
Role Play
Farm Safety
Farmyard Science
The Sensory Farm
The Sensory Farm Classroom Wall Display
Spotlight on…Fairfield School, Batley, Yorkshire
Farmyard Small World Play
Understanding the World Farm Animals
Amazing Facts About Farm Animals

This resource is aimed at supporting students and sensory learners of all ages following pre-formal/sensory, semi-formal or formal pathways incorporating activities that promote the five areas of the engagement model, creativity, independence, building communication skills, and supporting other areas of learning linking to curriculum subjects, themes, and topics.

This teaching pack is tailored to accommodate students’ individual learning needs through differentiated, themed, sensory extension activities linking to the EYFS Framework and areas of the KS1 National Curriculum making it the perfect resource for Special Education, Mainstream schools and settings, Speech & Language and EAL students.

The story props are low budget, everyday items found around the home, garden, outdoor areas and in the classroom.

What are the Benefits of Multisensory Storytelling?
• Storytelling creates a bond between the storyteller and the story explorer enhancing and enriching experiences.
• Multisensory Stories connect the individual to literature, culture, history, and topic in a fun and engaging way.
• The stories form a base on which to scaffold learning enabling the student to work on personal goals and individual targets.
The activities in the stories are designed to promote:
• Initiation and sensory exploration.
• Communication skills: anticipation, eye contact, listening, shared attention, and language development.
• Self-confidence and well-being: trying out new ideas, and skills, persistence.
• Practicing self-care, independence and enjoying achievement.
• Self-awareness: asking for ‘help’, ‘again’ and ‘more’.
• Opportunities to explore cause & effect and build anticipation skills.
• Physical Development.
• Engagement in scientific experimentation and mathematical concepts.
• Development of social & emotional skills: turn-taking & sharing, listening to others’ ideas and teamwork.

The sensory stimuli (story props) are a tool for the story explorer to explore and express their likes, dislikes, and sensory preferences and to have the opportunity to make choices and rejections. These preferences can be noted and used in care plans and to enhance areas of daily life