June Monthly Activities

Make popsicles by putting juice into ice cube trays and placing a toothpick in each cube. Freeze and eat!

Talk about the Food Plate from January. Does your child remember the different foods that we should eat every day?

Pick a letter and eat three foods with that letter. Talk about why they are good for you when you eat them.

Make a card for a father, friend’s father, or grandfather today.

Science Day!

Add food coloring to cups of water and put in celery stalks. What do you think will happen? Check back tomorrow and see! Talk about how plants need water to grow.

Find a package of dried beans. Use them to practice counting. You can use them again later in the month.

Visit Your Library!

Check out some of the great books about food listed above!

Read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie today. Make up a story about what you think would happen if you gave a mouse a cookie!

Use animal crackers to host an animal cracker circus!

Talk about Southern foods. Can you make boiled peanuts, iced tea or grits together?

Read one of the books about food from the library. When you are done, have your child retell you the story.

Mother Goose Time!

Change out muffin for other foods. Clap along.
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man.
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
That lives on Drury Lane?

When you go to the store, spend time pointing out the color of the foods and their names.

Go outdoors and enjoy a picnic. Look at the shapes of your food. How many square items do you have, how many circle items?

Talk about yesterday’s picnic. Describe some of the foods you ate. What different colors did you eat and what shapes?

Name as many fruits and vegetables as you can and talk about what color they are.

Cows are wonderful! Enjoy a glass of milk and draw a picture of a cow family.

Go outside and make mud pies. Count them forwards and backwards but don’t eat them!

Eat an apple or watermelon and read The Watermelon Seed. Count the seeds!

Science Day!

Show your child how to tell the temperature outside by reading a thermometer. Talk about hot and cold and why some foods need to stay cold.

Try and visit a local farm or farmer’s market today to see what foods are growing locally. Have you eaten any of them before?

Bake something together! If you can’t bake, pretend! Practice measuring ingredients.

Make a food alphabet book. Fold over paper, and either draw or cut out pictures of food items.

Read Jamberry. How many different types of berries can you think of? How many have you eaten before?

Science Day!

Talk about taste buds. Find items around your house that taste different. Such as salty, sweet, and sour. What is your favorite?

Play with your peas! How many peas fit on a spoon? Put them on, count, then eat them! Yum! Read Little Pea.

Song Day!

On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table, and onto the floor.
And then my poor meatball, rolled out of the door.

Spend some time making a meal together. Talk about what kinds of food you are making and let your child help.

Eat a rainbow! Try to eat something red, orange, yellow, green, and blue today!

Go outside and march around to The Farmer in the Dell. Make up the rest of the lyrics.
The farmer in the dell
The farmer in the dell
Hi-ho, the derry-o
The farmer in the dell.

Find a can or box in the house and use it to practice reviewing the alphabet.

Make a paper plate pizza. Use a paper plate as the pizza and you can draw or cut out shapes to ‘make’ the toppings.

Make music with water! Fill glasses with different amounts of water. Take a fork or spoon and tap the glass. Listen to the different sounds each glass makes!

Play with your food! You can make apple smiles by cutting apple quarters into halves, or try making ants on a log.

Mother Goose Time!

Mr. East gave a feast;
Mr. North laid the cloth;
Mr. West did his best;
Mr. South burned his mouth
Eating a cold potato.