Picnic
Celebration Kit
BONUS DAY
Picnic
Circle Time
Marching Ants
SKILLS NUMBER CONCEPTS 15.2 FINE MOTOR 5.1 LIFE SCIENCE 26.2
SUPPLIES
Discuss
Ant March
YOUR SUPPLIES
• How many legs and arms
do you have?
• Invite children to play
a game of Follow the
Leader as they march like
ants around the room.
• Encourage them to repeat
the rhyme to a steady
rhythm as they march:
Paper
Paint or ink
pad
Crayons
Greeting Song
Calendar & Weather
Discuss
• What would you like to do on a
picnic?
Opening Song
• Invite children to share what they
would pack in a picnic basket, then
insert the ideas into the rhyme.
PICNIC BASKET
A tisket a tasket,
Let’s pack our picnic basket.
We’ll fill it up with food to munch,
Look what’s in our picnic lunch!
Ant Body
• Explain to children that
ants have three body parts
and six legs.
• Give each child a piece of
paper and invite him to
make three fingerprints
on the paper for an ant
body, then write the
number 3 somewhere on
the page.
• Encourage him to add six
legs to the ant, then write
a number 6 on the page.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
We are ants,
Going to a picnic!
We each have six marching
feet,
Wonder what we’ll find to eat!
Picnic Weave Placemat
SKILLS VISUAL ARTS 32.1 FINE MOTOR 5.1 HEALTH AND SAFETY 6.1
SUPPLIES
Discuss
Create
YOUR SUPPLIES
• Where do you eat your
food at a picnic?
• Explain that some people
set down placemats and
eat at a picnic table and
some lay down a blanket
to eat their picnic food on
the ground.
• Cut long strips of paper.
• Help children weave
them together to make
placemats.
• Cut food photos from
grocery ads. Glue them
as desired onto the
placemats.
Paper
Scissors
Glue
Grocery ads
CHIPS
2
notes
Picnic Basket Bingo
SKILLS LETTER/WORD RECOGNITION 12.1, 12.2 SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS 3.1
SELF DIRECTION 2.1
SUPPLIES
Bingo Calling
Cards*
FOR EACH CHILD
Bingo Card*
YOUR SUPPLIES
Bingo chips
(or scraps of
paper)
Discuss
• What would you put in
your picnic basket?
Picnic Basket Bingo
• Give each child a
bingo card.
• Place Bingo Calling
Cards face down. Pick
a card, then show
it to children while
identifying it aloud.
• Encourage children
to cover the matching
symbol on their bingo card.
• Continue until a child
has filled her card.
Math Area
Make paper cutouts of
different picnic foods
(sandwich, watermelon, etc.)
and put them in the math
area with small scraps of
black paper (ants). Invite
children to place the ants
on a food cutout until it’s
completely covered. Count
how many ants it took to
cover the food.
Closing Time
Picnic Rhythms
Yummy Caterpillars
Child Reflection
SKILLS HEALTH AND SAFETY 6.1 SELF DIRECTION 2.2 GROSS MOTOR 4.2
SUPPLIES
Recipe Card*
YOUR SUPPLIES
Grapes
Pretzel sticks
Peanut butter
(or cream
cheese)
Bananas
Plastic knives
Blanket
Discuss
• What other bugs can ruin
a picnic?
Creepy Crawl
• Lay a blanket down on
one side of the room.
• Invite children to lie on
their bellies or sides and
pretend to be caterpillars
on the way to a picnic.
• Children try to get to
the blanket by wiggling
and crawling with arms
remaining at sides.
Snack Time
• Encourage children to use
the ingredients to create a
caterpillar snack.
• Invite children to take home their
picnic placemats and have an indoor
or outdoor picnic with families.
Celebrate
• Recite the rhyme to a steady rhythm
and invite children to follow a
pattern of clap, clap, pat throughout.
Five hungry ants,
Marching in a line;
They came upon a picnic,
Where they could dine.
They marched into the salad.
They marched into the cake.
They marched into the pepper.
Uh-Oh! That was a mistake!
AAAACCCCCHHHHHHHOOOOOOOO!!
(Children pretend to sneeze.)
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BONUS DAY 1
3
Bulletin
Board Idea CHIPS
Cut red and white squares of paper
and hang them in a checkerboard
pattern on the bulletin board. Give
each child a paper plate to decorate
as desired (paint, color, add food
images) and help him write his name.
Hang the plates on the tablecloth
backdrop and add black circle ants
marching through the picnic.
Books
ABOUT PICNICS
A Summer Picnic
by Richard Scarry
Little Critter’s The Picnic
by Mercer Mayer
Once Upon a Picnic
by John Prater
The Bears’ Picnic
by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Up to Ten and Down Again
by Lisa Campbell Ernst
The Beastly Feast
by Bruce Goldstone
The Pigs’ Picnic
by Keiko Kasza
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
by Jimmy Kennedy
One Hundred Hungry Ants
by Elinor J. Pinczes
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