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Songs and stories about picnics and cup cakes!

Introduction
• Key vocabulary: picnic, summer, bees, birds, apple, cakes, juice
• Listen all around: summer sounds
• Individual sounds: bees buzzing, birds singing, apple crunching, baking sounds, eggs breaking, timer ticking, drinking through a straw
• Cat invites listeners to join her on a summer picnic
• Children are prompted to listen carefully and identify what is in the picnic basket: apples, cup cakes, fruit juice

Song: ‘We can pack a picnic’ (tune - ‘Skip to my Lou’)
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack some apples.
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack some cupcakes.
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack some fruit juice.
• Cat encourages the children to think of some other food and drink that they might like to take on their picnic

**Story time: Lila’s picnic
**Once upon a picnic time…
If possible provide a selection of resources to help focus attention, sequencing and retelling the story: a picnic basket or pack, lunch box, a picnic blanket, apples, cupcakes, carrot sticks, etc.

Counting rhyme: ‘5 little cakes on a picnic plate’
_Five little cakes on a picnic plate
Round and fat, don’t they look great?
Along came a girl to the picnic today
Saw a cake and took it away.
Four little cakes on a picnic plate
Round and fat, don’t they look great?
Along came a boy to the picnic today
Saw a cake and took it away.
Three little cakes on a picnic plate
Round and fat, don’t they look great?
Along came a girl to the picnic today
Saw a cake and took it away.
Two little cakes on a picnic plate
Round and fat, don’t they look great?
Along came a boy to the picnic today
Saw a cake and took it away.
One little cake on a picnic plate
Round and fat, it looks great?
Along came a girl to the picnic today
Saw a cake and took it away.
_• Encourage the children to show their fingers as they count back from 5 to 1
• Cat invites listeners to join us on our journey home. Children are prompted to listen and identify: a bus, a train, footsteps on the pavement

Final song: ‘Pack a picnic’
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack a picnic
We can pack some apples.
…cupcakes
…fruit juice

**Follow-up ideas
**• Recap on sounds the children heard in the programme: ice-cream vans, insects buzzing, birds singing. Can they recreate these sounds using percussion instruments and body sounds?
• Small group discussion: use the props to help the children retell and sequence the story
• To support a healthy eating focus: encourage children to try a variety of food and encourage healthy food choices
• Make a picnic. Sow seeds to grow food for a picnic: tomatoes, mustard and cress (germinate on damp cotton wool and water as necessary) and use to make mustard and cress sandwiches. Making sandwiches for your picnic supports motor skills such as spreading / cutting.
• Role play activities. Can you act out going on a picnic? Provide a blanket, basket, plates, cups, play food.
• Consolidate a healthy food topic. What else can you add to your picnic? Carrot sticks, celery, make a ‘fruit salad kebab’ with satsuma segments, apple, black and green grapes, and cherry tomatoes
• Baking cakes for the picnic
• Bring your bear and have a Teddy Bear’s Picnic.

Play the ‘Passing game’ (tune - ‘Rain, rain, go away’)
Me, my, me-oh, my,
How I love my apple pie
• Children sit in circle and pass around an apple, (use objects or pictures as a prompt). When song stops choose a different ‘pie’, such as cherry, plum, chocolate, chicken, etc

‘I went on a picnic’ game
‘I went on a picnic and I took (or ‘ate’) …a cheese sandwich’
‘I went on a picnic and I took …a cheese sandwich and an apple’
‘I went on a picnic and I took …a cheese sandwich, an apple and a tomato…’_ etc
• Children to sit in circle and take turns to add to the list of items they ‘took on the picnic’

Other related rhymes and songs
• ‘The Teddy Bear’s Picnic’
• ‘Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake’
• ‘The Queen of Hearts’
• ‘Oranges and Lemons’
• ‘Five Little Peas’

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