Oh, What do you do in the Summertime? Part 2

I have to apologize…there will be minimal pictures today…and none of them will be taken by me.  I still have to figure out how to take pictures of the activities and respect the privacy of the family I work for.

I have done some fabulous activities with my kiddos (yeah, their not my kids…but I call them mine anyways), and here they are!  We did all things food this week!

My kiddos love popcorn, and they love helping me make it.  I have one of these that makes it a lot of fun for kiddos.  It’s called a Whirley Pop, and you can make popcorn on the stove quickly and easily.

 A note about Safety: I don’t let them actually cook the popcorn with the heat on.  I have the kids help me pour in the kernels and oil in the pan, and then I set it on the stove and they each get to turn the handle 10 times (with the heat off), and then it’s my turn to really cook it.  If they’ve caught on that they don’t actually cook it, they don’t care :)

If you don’t have a Whirley Pop, you can make popcorn on the stove with a regular pan or in the microwave or any other way.  Here’s a site that has instructions with pictures.  The activities just need popcorn…it doesn’t matter how you make it!

After snacking on our delicious treat, we drew the outline of a tree on a paper.  Older Kiddo chose black paper, so I busted out the sidewalk chalk to make it visible.  The kiddos thought this was cool!  I made squiggles with Elmer’s glue on the tree and they covered them with popcorn.  The kiddos requested doing Christmas Trees, so that’s what we did!  I was thinking spring trees, but such is life!  I think the request was inspired by the book we’d read earlier (pictured below). 

The kiddos asked if we could string popcorn and play bingo with popcorn another day.  I said sure (thanks for planning for me…love that)!

We read lots of books about food this week.  Some of our favorites included:

The kiddos didn’t know it, but the last two books are part of a series called Math Start.  They help kids learn the first basics of math such as more, less, same and different sets.  The stories are very cute if you want to read for fun, but still get some learning in.  Fabulous!

A couple other things my kiddos love can be printed here and here.  I had cutouts of different fruits and vegetable for them to glue on.  It’s great to see how many different foods the kids can recognize!

Have fun with your food!  And guess what?  The weekend is already here!  Enjoy!