Theme — Food:

Books
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
A Cake for Barney Joyce Dunbar
Zoom on My Broom by Erica Farber
Lunch by Denise Fleming
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
My Favorite Foods by Dana Rau
Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley
The Cake that Mack Ate by Rose Robart

Songs
"Peanut Butter sandwich" from Singable Songs for the Very Young by Raffi
"Popcorn" from We All Live Together #2 by Greg and Steve
"Milkshake" from Songs for Wiggleworms
"Spaghetti legs" from Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes by Jim Gill

Activities

• Cooking with Children: Kids in the Kitchen - this website gives age appropriate activities for children to do in the kitchen and some simple recipes for making together. Another good site is from PBS: Cooking with Kids
• For fun, inexpensive food related crafts see "Fun and Frugal things to do with Toddlers." There you will find a recipe for edible clay (made with peanut butter), instructions for potato pictures and ideas of how to create bird feeders.