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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 the following poems:
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 20th 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 (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 (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Sandwich Craft (krokotak)