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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is one of the most fun children’s books to read aloud!

Written by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault, and illustrated by Lois Ehlert, the story is told of alphabet letters who mischievously climb a coconut tree and tumble down.  The rhythmic way it is written makes it fun to read with the kids, bouncing them on your knees all the while.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Lunch

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Kids Lunch - ideas for reading the story and making a special lunch to go with it! | CreativeKidSnacks.com

We created this lunch using leftovers a combination of leftovers from this yummy meal made the night before and fresh ingredients.  Spoon rice (or an alternative listed below) onto the bottom portion of your plate as a ground.  Next, use fresh pineapple chunks to build a palm tree.  Slice an avocado and place sections above for the palm branches.  Slice a meatball in half and lay onto the plate to look like coconuts.  (Note: I microwaved the portion of the leftovers I was going to use before assembling this lunch).

Finally, using string cheese, add the letters of the alphabet heading towards the “coconut tree”.  You’re done!

Variations:

Ground: oatmeal, hummus, cheerios, black beans, (or any other beans), turkey, or basically anything brown or black!

Tree trunk: banana, mango, peaches

Palm leaves: sugar snap peas, kiwi, green grapes, green apple slices

Coconuts: cereal, crackers (like Ritz), red or dark grapes, even sliced baby carrot wheels or banana wheels

Letters: pipe yogurt onto plate to make letters, Alphabet cereal

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Learning Activities

1) Act out the story using alphabet cards (use store-bought or make your own on index cards).

2) Dance to the story, make up moves to go along with different phrases in the book.

3) Put in order the alphabet letters: spread alphabet cards all over the floor (like the pile of letters in the story), and have your child put them back in order by lining them up on the floor.  (Make your own alphabet cards if you don’t have your own).

More Book-Inspired Snacks Ideas:

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle
Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes by Margie Palatini
Blackout by John Rocco
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

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Egyptian Pyramids version 2

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I taught the girls a little bit about ancient Egypt last year using this lunch.  My older daughter, age 4, was very interested to discover the wonder of the amazing pyramids they built using giant stones to reach the sky.

We thought of a new version that is even more interactive.

Build your own 3D Pyramid

Teach the kids about the ancient pyramids using fresh pineapple chunks to build your own!

We tried this same snack using canned pineapple, and I will say that it definitely comes out better, (not to mention being tastier and more nutritious), with fresh pineapple.

As you cut the pineapple, try to cut chunks in as perfectly square or rectangular shapes as you can.  This will make “construction” easier as all of the pieces will fit together evenly.

Start with the base level.  Make a square.  Ours was 4×4 pineapple chunks.  Once that level is complete, move up to the next level.  The square on the next level up will be slightly smaller than the bottom level.  Continue working upward until you have made what looks like a pyramid!

The amount of pineapple chunks you need will vary depending on how large you cut your squares, but it doesn’t have to be perfect, and the kids will love creating their own 3-D pyramid snack.

Fill in the plate with “sand”.  We used krispie cereal and it was a nice color and visual contrast to the pineapple.

Teach the kids about the Egyptian Pyramids by building your own for lunch!

Before we ate, we added a little camel for effect.  He completes the look and feel of the snack.

Make sure you check out our other pyramid snack in case you are looking for something a bit easier.

Additional Resources for teaching about the pyramids:

Pyramids and Tombs – Ancient Egypt for Kids

Ducksters: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

Video – National Geographic Destination: Egypt

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Joshua and the battle of Jericho

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Joshua 6:1-27 tells the story of the great city of Jericho with walls so high and fortified that no adversary could break through.  God called the Israelite leader Joshua to march around the city with the priests blowing their trumpets of ram’s horns in front of the ark of the covenant for six days.  On the seventh day, they were to march around the city seven times and all of the Israelite people were to shout.  When this happened, God told Joshua, the great walls of the city would come crashing down, and, in this way, the Lord would give the city over to His people.
Read this story with your child, or read the story from the children’s bible (HEREis the one we use), and then create this story for lunch!
Build walls using grapes sliced in half, laid flat side down onto the plate.  Next, slice baby carrots in half lengthwise and lay a couple of them down to be the Israelites.  Thinly slice the other half of the baby carrot and cut to shape for arms and legs.  Complete the scene with some green celery grass below the city walls and add two small triangular slices of pineapple for the priest’s horns.  A nice sun in the sky completes the picture.
(By the way, once I saw the photo, I realized that the Jericho guy looks like he’s smiling . . . oops!  That was supposed to be a round mouth saying “oh no!”)
Once this lunch was complete and we retold the story, Grace “tore the walls down” as they fell in the story.  She had fun with that!
Finally, I sliced up the “grass” below the city for her to dip into her peanut butter.
Variations:
Build the wall with other fruit like strawberries, bananas, or blueberries.
Use pineapple for the sun, or cheese for the trumpets.
Enjoy!
Check out our other bible stories HERE.
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The Flood

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Genesis 6-9 tells the awesome story of Noah and the ark.  This story has fascinated kids for all time, and they love to picture all of the animals filing in two by two to be rescued in the safety of the ark from the great flood.
Read the story with your kids, or read the story of Noah in the children’s bible.  Talk about how they must have felt when they saw all of the water covering the earth.  Then talk about how they must have felt when God allowed them to land safely upon dry ground again.  You can make a list of the foods Noah might have used to feed all the animals, and which animals your child might like to take care of if he or she were in the ark during the flood.
Create this super easy lunch by inverting a peanut butter sandwich, slicing out two rectangular sections from the sides and slicing the top into a point.  Next, create the rain, clouds, and waves using this technique:
Add the lightning bolt with some thinly sliced pineapple or some cheddar cheese cut to look the part.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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We all love the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  
Take a morning and read the story with your child, then talk about all the foods the caterpillar ate, and perhaps talk about which of the foods he ate were nutritious and which were not. 
Then, create him yourself!  Take a large strawberry and slice to create his head.  Next, create his eyes by using little bits of pineapple cut into circles and place sliced green jelly belly candies in front.  Form his body with green grapes , carrot feet, raisin mouth, and ham antennae.  He is walking on an oatmeal ground and taking in the cheddar cheese sun! 

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