Snack and Story for my 2nd Grader, Fun With Read Alouds

We had an hour break during my Lego classes this year and my son said the only other art class he wanted besides Lego was the snack and story class which they don't offer to 7 year olds, but it sounded so much fun that we made one ourselves.    My classroom luckily had a microwave and a refrigerator, so food art was possible!

We picked a dozen books, some old favorites and some new ones and then we picked some of our favorite lunches and tried to craft them into theme food.  This is what we came up with...

My Lucky Dayby Keiko Kasza

We had a great discussion about irony.

Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel

Such a snarky book.  It is really revealing about my daughter's sense of humor since she has read these books to pieces.

• Nuttella Sandwich (snip triangles out of side of bread, and forehead off of top), snipped pink marshmallow ears, m&m eyes and nose, white marshmallows for muzzle
• tuna and crackers or goldfish crackers

We shared our picture with the author, since he is my daughter's absolute favorite and were thrilled to hear back from him.  he said,
"I absolutely love it!  Bon apetit,
Nick"

"Roger the Jolly Pirate" by Brett Helquist
Wonderful comedy for kids, glad we found this!  My kids said we should have made a cake like Roger did in the book...  

• Pizza
• Olives
• Pepperoni
• Jolly Ranchers

Talent Show, Scaredy Pantsby Abby Klein

yep, I love doing magic for talent shows...

• Pretzel Rod Magic Wands
• and Rabbit Bread

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

I had never read this before, delightful book, and we had a great discussion with it.

• Gruffalo Cupcakes
• and Scrambled Snake (popcorn and gummy worms)

(The big one is my gluten free cake, and it was nice to have cupcakes for the snack since it was Josh's birthday that week, btw popcorn and gummy worms together is gross!!!)

Captain Awesome to the Rescue
by Stan Kirby
we wanted to try out some chapter books...

• Super Hero Capes (red fruit roll-ups)
• Awesome Kabobs (red, orange, and yellow fruit, decorated with a picture of captain awesome)

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The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein
(we didn't really like this book, it was kind of a grown up book...)

• White Frosting, cold cereal, Pretzel Sticks, Cherry Sours

David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon

• Balogna, raisins, tortilla chip, crackers

Buy My Hats! by Dave Horowitz
Prepare the kids first:  
I told the kids the best way to sell something is to sell something like milk that is needed everyday, but if not there are other tactics to get people to buy, such as "everyone else has one", "its addicting", "you need the upgrade", "it is super fun".  Then I challenged my kids to look for these things in the book and see why they think certain things sold well.  What a wonderful educational book for a second grader!!!

Robotic Cell Phones=Pop Tarts, Chewy Spree, Townhouse cracker
Skateboards=carrots and chewy sweet tarts
cup o' Mud=pudding



The Enderman Invasion By
Winter Morgan
(trying to show my son that there are  books available on almost every topic...)

Chocolate Poptarts, Chocolate Licorice, purple candy, white frosting
Mushrooms=Apple Slices and Pineapple Chunks
Mushroom=Red Pepper and String Cheese

(more minecraft food art: minecraft pigs and desert sand)



Bread and Honey by Frank Asch
all Frank Asch books are adorable and so clever!

• Bread with honey and Bit O' Honey (already eaten!)

More Arts Festival Food Art from the Edible Story Art class:
Monkey and Rabbit
 

Youth Arts Festival Day 2 and Day 3

Day 2 and Day 3

Youth Arts Festival 2016! 

Lego Art

Pop Art Day, Comic Books, Cartoons, Pop Culture

Princesses, My Little Pony (Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity), Link from Legend of Zelda, Mine Craft ghasts

Ultimate Lego Design

Wings, Mosaic, and Vignette

Story and Snack for older kids

My daughter read almost nothing but bad Kitty Books for all of second grade, so she insisted we feature this in our story class for my son entering 2nd grade.

"Bad Kitty" by Nick Bruel

• Nutella Sandwich w/ M&M's and marshmallows
• tuna and crackers
• goldfish

"Roger the Jolly Pirate" by Brett Helquist

• Pizza
• Olives
• Pepperoni
• Jolly Ranchers

Edible Story Art

Monkey and Rabbit

Mine Craft Art

Summer Art

Some of the Fun From Day one of 

Youth Arts Festival 2016! 

I teach a Lego Art Class for 5-7 year olds and one for 10-15 year olds.  I am doing "Story and Snack for older kids" as well because I have a break between Lego classes and we can't get enough food art!

Lego Art

Brick Sculpture day

8  princesses!

Ultimate Lego Design

Dioramas and Vignettes day

Story & Snack for older kids

We read about a pig who tricks a wolf into slaving for him all day in order to avoid becoming his dinner.  Then made blue jello "baths", ate a "nice dinner with dessert", and made a roller massager out of bubble gum!  This really is the class for my 6 and 8 year old, but my 3 year old liked it too.

Edible Story Art

"Elephant and Puppy" Day

Kinder Arts & Crafts

Circle Day

Mini Figure Art

Mine Craft Art

Made a crafting table, TNT, and a fishing pole

Jewelry Making

Webelos Adventures In Science

This badge looks so much fun!  

"An experiment is a “fair test” to compare possible explanations. Draw a picture of a fair test that shows what you need to do to test a fertilizer’s effects on plant growth."

"Visit a museum, a college, a laboratory, an observatory, a zoo, an aquarium, or other facility that employs scientists. Prepare three questions ahead of time, and talk to a scientist about his or her work." 

 

This was a great activity the girl scouts did for their Night Owl Badge!

"Build a model solar system. Chart the distances between the planets so that the model is to scale. Use what you learn from this requirement to explain the value of making a model in science."

I thought even if the distances are to scale, the planets could still be cookies!  Look close--these cookies are Earth and Jupiter.  In this pictures we are getting ready for 4-H clover bud camp where the participants are going to learn about space!

"With adult assistance, explore safe chemical reactions with household materials. Using two substances, observe what happens when the amounts of the reactants are increased."

I did this with 3 year olds and at a pack night, tons of fun!  We tried this scented rainbow science and sensory play, although I would just do one or two colors for the webelos.

Explore properties of motion on a playground. How does the weight of a person affect how fast they slide down a slide or how fast a swing moves? Design a fair test to answer one of those questions. 

Study the night sky.  Sketch the appearance of the North Star (Polaris) and the Big Dipper (part of the Ursa Major constellation) over at least six hours. Describe what you observed, and explain the meaning of your observations.