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
- Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee
- Noodles by Janet S. Wong
- 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
Movement
Song:
The Ants Go Marching
Game: Pass the Sandwich (From 2016 CSLP On Your Mark Children’s Manual, Chapter 5, p. 153)
- 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)
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