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Picnic Plate

Food Art Fun

Day 114of 180
Week 23of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify and draw different types of picnic foods

2

Practice fine motor skills through drawing and coloring

3

Recognize God's provision of food with a thankful heart

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 136:25

“Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

— Psalm 136:25 (WEB)

Celebrates God's provision of food, connecting to our picnic plate art project

📦 Materials Needed

  • Paper plates
  • Crayons or colored pencils
  • Optional: Real fruits for observation
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide: PK4 Art
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

In today's BibleMouse lesson, we'll create a colorful picnic plate with our favorite foods!

💭 Review Question: What yummy foods did we draw yesterday on our birthday cake?
2Teaching (7 min)

Let's talk about the delicious foods we enjoy at picnics

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Different foods we like to eat outside
  • Colors and shapes of picnic foods
  • How God provides wonderful food for us
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What's your favorite picnic food?
  • What colors are the foods you like?
3Activity: Picnic Plate Drawing (8 min)
hands-on

Draw and color your favorite picnic foods on a paper plate

📝 Instructions:
  1. Take a paper plate
  2. Draw foods you love to eat at a picnic
  3. Use bright colors to make your plate fun
  4. Remember to thank God for these yummy foods!
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Trace or use stickers of food shapes

Challenge: Add details like texture or patterns to foods

4Closing (3 min)

Share your beautiful picnic plate and talk about the foods you drew

📝 Review Questions:
  • What foods did you draw?
  • What colors did you use?

Coming up: Tomorrow, we'll create a poster showing foods we're thankful for!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Picnic-themed art helps develop creativity and fine motor skills

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Encourage creativity, not perfect drawing
  • Help child name and describe their foods
  • Use this as a chance to discuss thankfulness
🤔 Common Struggles:

Staying within plate boundaries, holding drawing tools correctly

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Excitement about drawing, ability to name foods

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for additional food-themed coloring pages
  • Sing a thank you song from BibleMouse Song Collection about God's provision

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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