Picnic Activities

Introduction	Hello Everybody by Miss Carole
Daily Report	Month, Season, Weather
Weekly Rhyme	Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands
ASL	Outside
Book	Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
Food Identification	What’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 Rhyme	This is Big, Big, Big (Short Version)
Prepositional Body Work	Hand 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 Rhyme	The 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 Rhyme	Watermelon 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 Song	Hot Potato by The Wiggles/Lenny Pearce
Dance Song	Spaghetti Legs by Jim Gill
Closing Songs	ABC’s and Counting to 5
Goodbye song	Skidamarink By Old Town School of Folk Music