Theme — Food
Books
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- 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
Poems/Fingerplays
- Five Red Apples
- Ice Cream Poem
- Little Donuts (Tune: Ten Little Indians)
- Patty Cake
- Popcorn
- Two Red Apples
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.
Aug 21, 2008