Toddlers – Picnic

IntroductionHello Everybody by Miss Carole
Daily ReportMonth, Season, Weather
Weekly RhymeClap, Clap, Clap Your Hands
ASLOutside
BookWatermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
Food IdentificationWhat’s in my Picnic Basket?
Pull out food and silly items for kids to identify whether each item belongs at a picnic.
Book I Love Bugs! by Philemon Sturges
Weekly RhymeThis is Big, Big, Big (Short Version)
Prepositional Body WorkHand each child a plastic ant.
Have kids try to balance the ant on different body parts.
*On their head
* In their pocket
*Out of their pocket
Movement RhymeThe Ants Go Marching
The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.
The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.
The ants go marching one by one.
The little one stops to suck his thumb.
And they all go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ants go dancing one by one, ta-da! ta-da!
The ants go jumping one by one, pop pop, pop pop
The ants go spinning one by one, dizzy, dizzy.
My own adaptation with different movements from the original rhyme.
Finger RhymeWatermelon Has One Black Seed
Tune: Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Watermelon has one black seed,
One black seed,
One black seed.
Watermelon has one black seed,
Pretty watermelon.  

Count up to three.
Source: King County Library System
Dance SongHot Potato by The Wiggles/Lenny Pearce
Dance SongSpaghetti Legs by Jim Gill
Closing SongsABC’s and Counting to 5
Goodbye songSkidamarink By Old Town School of Folk Music

Craft:



Take-Home Worksheet