Learn While You Play

THEME: Summer Time Fun:
Picnics and BBQ

Large Group Activity: Picnic Basket Fun

• Bring in a picnic basket to large group time, and ask children what they think the basket is for.
• Ask what they think is inside the basket.
• Select a few children to pick out something from the basket (e.g. paper plates, cups, forks, spoons, ketchup, napkins, blanket, pictures of food appropriate for a picnic, etc.)
• Ask each child to talk about the items they have chosen from the basket.

Art Activity: Ketchup and Mustard Bottle Painting

• Fill a ketchup bottle with thick red tempera paint. Fill a mustard bottle with thick yellow tempera paint. 
• Encourage the children create their own designs or drawings on construction paper.

Math: BBQ Sauce Tasting

• Encourage children to dip bite size cucumbers or celery into several different types of barbeque sauce.
• Ask which sauce they like best.
• Chart children's responses on a experience chart.
• Discuss which sauce has the most responses, which sauce has the least and why.

Books:
“A Picnic, Hurray!”  by Franz Brandenberg
“Babar's Picnic”   by Laurent deBrunhoff

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