Any of the Saxon Freymann books and fruits
One Fish Two
Fish and Goldfish crackers
Walter the Baker by Carle (pretzels)
Any of the
Cranberry books by Devlin (all have cranberry recipes at the end)
Pancakes,
Pancakes by Carle
Brown Bear Brown Bear, Teddy Grahams, and glueing Bear
figures cut from an
Ellison onto popsicle sticks to make a puppet to assist
with choral speaking
of "Brown Bear”
There is a great book by, I think, Jan Irvine, called Mudluscious - all about books and food. Another book for ideas is Book Cooks
Lauren McGill
Pickle Museum and pickles
How about If I ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss and
the multi-colored animal crackers
Bartholomew and the Oobleck (Dr. Seuss)
and green jello
This year, I read The Monster who Ate My Peas to my
kindergarten classes served small cups of split pea soup, dried, salted peas,
and pea pods also had a visual of a pea plant and discussed the parts of the
plant.) While some of the kids turned up their noses at some of the
snacks, most of them enjoyed them and the book was the top vote receiver in our
Young Hoosier Book Award voting!
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco served with
honey on a biscuit.
Mean Soup (any soup), Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice
(several ethnic foods)
Mice and Beans (pinata candy), Mouse Mess (several
foods pictured and I think peanut butter and jelly mentioned) and Enemy Pie (any
pie).
Hi Pizza Man (Walter),
Pizza Kittens (Voakee) The
Princess and the Pizza (Mary Jane Auch) or
Pete's a Pizza (Steig) with Pizza
flavored crackers -- or real pizza!
Rainbow fish with the multicolored
goldfish snack
Diary of a Worm or Inch by Inch (Lionni) with Gummi
worms
The Doorbell Rang, by Pat Hutchins (cookies) The cookies are divided
among several children so this is also math related.
Any of the math books
that feature food: m&m" 19"s, twizzlers, cheerios
Use food any animals in
the story would eat: for instance, bears eat berries=
Blueberries for Sal and
blueberries
*Mini blueberry muffins - Franklin's Secret Club
*Bananas or
Banana Muffins - Curious George
*Pretzels, peanut butter and raisins - Chris
Van Allsburg's "Two Bad Ants”(you dip the pretzels in the pb and then stick the
raisins on them, to represent
"ants on a log")
*Cake boxcars - Boxcar
Children (mini pound cakes, frosting, licorice for RR
tracks, honeycomb
cereal for wheels)
There's also several Emily Dickinson cake recipes that
would be fun to bring to class, if you're allowed to bake at home and bring
stuff in. They're available online.
Don't forget to inquire for
each class regarding food allergies; you also might want to check for Jewish
students who keep kosher in the home.
Yoko sushi
How to make an apple pie
and see the world apples, apple products
Rainbow Fish (a fun book that my
kids just love) and a package or two ofPeppridge Farm goldfish crackers.
Read
the chapter called Donuts from Homer Price by McCloskey and serve
donut
holes. This is an old "classic" book and one that the kids might not
know. I just did this with my fourth graders and they loved it.
Harold and
the Purple crayon - scribblers (they are popsicles that look
like
crayons)
Diary of a worm -- Dirt cups
My little sister ate one
hare -- candied peas and carrots, you can find them at the candy shops
sometimes
What about The Gingerbread Baby (Jan Brett) with gingerbread
cookies to decorate?
Also Swimmy, Big Al and Rainbow fish goldfish
crackers
Lemonade for Sale (Murphy)
Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie (Adler)
The
Doorbell Rang (Hutchins) cookies
Tough cookie (Wisniewski) cookies (I'd make
sure to use a very hard and=20
crunchy cookie like Chips Ahoy)
William
Tell (L. Fisher) apples or bulls eye candy (Carmel Cremes)
Mr. Putter and
Tabby Bake a Cake (Rylant)
Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea (Rylant)
Mr. Putter and
Tabby Pick the Pears (Rylant)
Season's of Arnold's Apple Trees (Gibbons)
apples or cider
Tomie DePaola's Pancakes for Breakfast
Gail Gibbons: The
Milk Makers, Apples, The Honey Makers, Growing Vegetable Soup
Everybody Cooks
Rice by Norah Dooley anything else by her (Bread, Soup and Noodles
books!)
Pizza Party or How Pizza Came to Queens using pizza flavored
crackers.
Mr. Peabody's Apples using Apple chips or dried apple
slices.
Everybody Bakes Bread with pita bread or tortillas
Thunder Cake
using the thunder cake recipe to serve cake
If You Give a Moose a Muffin and mini muffins from grocery
store or Hostess mini muffins.
Gingerbread Boy with Archway Ginger
cookies.
Little Red Hen and serve bread and butter.
Runaway Tortilla by
Eric Kimmel and tortillas