Introducing the Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable! Loaded with variations to help learn new skills, from counting and matching to writing and nutrition, this busy book is a great way to prepare for summer picnics. Grab your printable and get ready for a picnic adventure with this delightful printable!
I have wanted to make this activity for over a year and cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have it done!
My 4 year old was watching me make it over the course of a week and kept asking me when it was going to be ready. She knew the fun that was coming and could not wait to get her hands on it.
Once it was finally done, we spent a solid afternoon playing with this Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable together, and a bit on her own, in many different ways.
With so many variations, this Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable is an activity you can come back to again and again. You can use it as part of a larger busy book or as a stand alone activity. You can work on it with your child or they can be independent. There are truly so many ways to play!
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How These Busy Book Pages Work
Included with your busy book pages, you get:
- 30 done for you food squares
- 6 make your own food squares
- 1 fridge printable page
- 1 pantry printable page
- 8 done for you picnic list cards
- 4 make your picnic list cards
- 1 picnic basket printable page
Before even starting to find picnic list matches, your child can place the food cards in the proper location – either the fridge or the pantry. This elicits great discussions about food storage and connections to how your own kitchen is organized.
From there, your child can start by simply matching the items on the done for you picnic list cards with the items in the fridge and pantry. If she wants, your child can also use a dry erase marker and check off what she found.
To take it further, have your child draw her own food items she would like to take on a picnic and make her own picnic list cards. You can trade off who is filling in the basket vs who is making the lists.
Put your Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable in your little kitchen, include it as part of a dramatic play set, or keep in a larger busy book. However you chose to organize it, there is lots of play time and learning to be had.
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Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable Skills Practiced
Busy book pages are always such a joy because not only can the kids be involved in dramatic play, but they are practicing so many skills as well. With three kids all close together, I seek printables that can be used in multiple ways to either modifiy for their differing levels, or that can grow with them as they advance their learning.
For this Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable, it can grow with them in ways like:
- Vocabulary building
- Creative thinking
- Nutrition discussions
- Creative thinking
- Real life connections
- Writing practice
- Matching
- Counting
- Organization
Prep Your Busy Book Printable Pages
Your Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable pages will take a bit of prep work, but with little hands helping, it can go faster.
Just a reminder that this is a printable product and nothing physical will be sent to you. You are repsonsible for the printing and prepping.
No need to write these steps down, as they are included, with visuals, in your PDF download once you buy your pages. The basic steps are:
- Print pages 4-10. These pages include the picnic basket, picnic cards, make your own picnic cards, food, fridge, and pantry.
- Cut out the picnic basket, picnic cards, and food squares.
- Laminate the basket, picnic cards, food squares, fridge, and pantry and cut out your laminations as needed.
- Stick on your velcro dots.
- Grab a dry erase marker if needed and you are ready to play!
Included In This Printable
This printable includes:
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- A 10 page PDF you can save to your email or computer
- 1 picnic basket printable image page
- 8 done for you picnic list cards
- 4 make your own picnic list cards
- 36 food image squares
- 6 draw your own food image squares
- 1 pantry image page
- 1 fridge image page
- 2 directions pages
Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable
No matter how you choose to play, this Picnic Basket Busy Book Printable is going to be a crowd pleaser. From starting with simple matching skills, all the way to writing their own lists, your children are going to be enjoying this one for a while. Snag your copy of this printable for some summer picnic adventures!
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