Poetry Picnic

Description: Families and children of all ages are invited to celebrate National Poetry Month by listening to food themed poetry and playing a few games. Feel free to bring a picnic blanket to sit on in the meeting room.

 

Share poems from the following: 

The Popcorn Astronauts and Other Bitable Rhymes by Deborah Ruddell

·         Lickety-Split Picnic

·         Your Choices at the Totally Toast Café

·         21 Things to Do with an Apple

·         Menu for a Gray Day

 The 20^th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury selected by jack Prelutsky

·         Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee

·         Noodles by Janet S. Wong

 Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

·         Spaghetti

·         Alice

·         Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich

·         Eighteen Flavors

 The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky

·         Bleezer’s Ice Cream

 Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast and Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky

·         My Family’s Last Picnic

·         The Stir-Frying Pandas

·         Bananas

 Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young selected by Jack Prelutsky

·         Toaster Time by Eve Merriam

·         Yellow Butter by Mary Ann Hoberman

 My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky

·         Sandwich Stan

·         I Wanted Macaroni

  Game: Picnic Bingo (Source: Etsy)

 

Movement Song: The Ants Go Marching

Game: Pass the Sandwich (From 2016 CSLP On Your Mark Children’s Manual, Chapter 7, p. 153)

Take Home:

• Recipe Ruckus (2016 Poetry Month Activities from Shel Silverstein's website)
• Bleezer’s Ice Cream Poem from The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky & Design Your Own Bleezer’s Ice Cream Flavors (Source: Teachers Pay Teachers)
• Sandwich Craft (Source: Krokotak)