We followed along to the bean bag song and then I read It's the Bear by Jez Alborough. The group really enjoyed this story about a boy afraid of a bear while he's on a picnic and of the bear being afraid of him.
Next, we added
fruits and veggies to our "picnic blanket" and we went through the names of the
fruits and veggies and their colors. Everyone got a turn to put their food on
the magnetic sheet pan.
Next, I read The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli. The kids really do love
this book! Everytime I read it, it's a hit and the kids love to laugh about the seed growing in crocodile's belly.
After this book, we guessed which
colored picnic basket had the apple underneath it using the flannel board.
Then we read our third book, Picnic by John Burningham. This
book kept the kids attention because it asked to find certain things in the
pictures, but I would say this was their least favorite out of the four books.
We made the tallest ice cream cone with our different
colored scoops and each had a turn and then we read Muddle & Mo's Worm Surprise. It was fun to see the kids faces when the picnic food would be worms.
We made a watermelon craft using paint. The kids got done with
this craft fast, but they enjoyed using paint for a bit.
This was a good theme that had enough to use for just a
picnic theme.
Other Books:
We're Going on a Picnic Pat Huchins
Ready for Anything! Keiko Kasza
Freda Plans a Picnic Stuart J. Murphy
Summer Supper Rubin Pfeffer
The Teddy Bears' Picnic Jimmy Kennedy
Other Activities:
-Plastic Food Activity
-Five Hungry Ants Fingerplay
-Stone Soup Story Flannel
-Hungry Caterpillar Flannel
-5 cookies Flannel
-ice cream cone Flannel
-Vegetable Game
-pizzas fingerplay
-Popsicle Flannel
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