Down here in the South, it’s pretty common to see farms and farming equipment. My youngest boy is smack dab in the middle of the “I love everything mechanical” phase, so he was excited about learning how farm equipment works.

I made this harvest unit study with him in mind. But it would be a great one of our homeschool unit studies for any kid, especially during fall!

Be sure to try some of our other fun fall activities, including our list of fall books for kids and our list of 50 fall crafts to make this year!

Homeschool Unit Studies: Harvest Unit Study

Harvest Notebooking Pages

Pick up these free harvest notebooking pages to use with this unit! Kids can use these printables to organize the facts they learn about harvest time from the video below or from the books you share together.

>>> Free Printable Harvest Notebooking Pages <<<

What Happens At Harvest Time?

Watch the wheat harvesting video and let the kids try to the answer the questions that follow.

1. What does the rotating wheel on the front of the combine do? (Answer: It pulls the wheat toward the sharp blades. The blades cut the wheat.)
2. What happens inside the combine? (Answer: The wheat heads are cut from the stalks. Then the heads are sifted to remove the chaff, leaving grains of wheat.)
3. How is the wheat chaff reused? (Answer: The chaff is tossed out of the combine back onto the ground. It will be reused to make straw bales.)
4. What happens once the combine’s storage tank is full of wheat? (Answer: The driver turns on a flashing light to call a tractor. The driver dumps the wheat out of the storage tank into the tractor’s trailer.)
5. What happens to the wheat inside the storehouse? (Answer: Drivers use trucks to collect all of the wheat into a neat pile.)
6. How much wheat can the combine harvest in one hour? (Answer: Enough to make over 70,000 loaves of bread)
7. What does the baler do? (Answer: Collects the wheat straw from the ground and forms it into blocks. This straw will be used for animal bedding during winter.)

What is a Harvest Moon?

Ever heard of the “harvest moon”? What is one and how did it get its name? This video is a neat (and brief!) explanation!

Harvest Activities for Kids:

These fun harvest activities for kids are a wonderful way to add some hands-on learning to this unit study!

1. Apple Harvest Scissor Skills Printables – Toddler to K

2. Harvest Play Fall Sensory Bin – Toddler to K

3. Alphabet Letter Harvest Game – Toddler to K

4. Apple Harvest Pom-Pom Tree Craft – Toddler to K

5. Coffee Filter Pumpkin Craft – Toddler to K

6. Paper Plate Corn Craft – Toddler to K

7. Apple Tree Playdough Counting Mat – Toddler to K

8. The Little Red Hen Retelling Sensory Activity – Toddler to K

9. DIY Pumpkin Slime – Toddler to K

10. Coffee Filter Apple Craft – Toddler to K

11. Apple Tree Circle Game – Toddler to K

12. Cardboard Apple Tree Craft – Toddler to K

13. Apple Counting Puzzles – Preschool

14. Pumpkin Measuring Math Activity – Preschool

15. Pumpkin Ordinal Number Worksheets – Preschool to Grade 1

16. Printable Corn Counting Book – Preschool to Grade 1

17. Apple Array Math Practice Worksheets – Grade 2

18. Pinecone Apple Necklace – Elementary

19. Colored Corn Mosaic Art – ALL AGES

20. Corncob Harvest Craft – ALL AGES

21. Harvest Pumpkin Watercolor Art Project – ALL AGES

And don’t miss our list of harvest books for kids to read!

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We’re getting well into the harvest season and it’s a perfect time to read about this time of year with the kids!

We’ve already featured a harvest unit study, but I wanted to share a few more children’s books about harvest that feature picking apples, pumpkins, corn, and all kinds of fall produce.

There are even books that talk about the harvest moon, which is a great way to talk about lunar cycles.

Once you read a couple of these books, be sure to take the kids pumpkin picking, apple picking, or running through a corn maze. You might even want to make an apple pie with your kids!

By the way, if you can make an apple pie successfully, please explain it to me. I’m terrified of attempting to make a pie from scratch.

If you love these books, don’t miss our roundup of 50 Fall Books for Kids or our list of Children’s Books about Farms!

15 Beautiful Children’s Books about Harvest

1. Possum’s Harvest Moon – Anne Hunter

2. Strega Nona’s Harvest – Tomie dePaola

3. We Gather Together: Celebrating the Harvest Season – Wendy Pfeffer

4. Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes – Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

5. Hello, Harvest Moon – Ralph Fletcher

6. Fall Harvests: Bringing In Food – Martha E. H. Rustad

7. It’s Harvest Time! – Jean McElroy

8. Curious George: Apple Harvest – H.A. Rey

9. Apples, Apples Everywhere!: Learning about Apple Harvests – Robin Koontz

10. By the Light of the Harvest Moon – Harriet Ziefert

11. Tractor Mac: Harvest Time by Billy Steers

12. Harvest Time: Celebrate Fall! by Erika L. Shores

13. Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Tad Hills

14. Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie (Picture the Seasons) by Jill Esbaum

15. Bitsy’s Harvest Party by Melody Carlson

Don’t miss these other book lists for kids!

For more tips to make your kids into readers, check out my Reading for Kids board on Pinterest!

This post is part of The Massive Guide to Homeschool Reading Lists by iHomeschool Network! Click over to read tons of awesome booklists shared by my fellow homeschooling bloggers!

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