Packing Up a Picnic: Activities and Recipes for Kids

by Rick Walton and Jennifer Adams

Pack a basket; we're going on a picnic! But picnics can be more than just a summertime event, and can definitely be more than the same old fried chicken and potato salad. Authors Rick Walton and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586857789
• ISBN13: 9781586857783
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

A Survival Tool for Vacations

Part of the "Activities for Kids" series that includes Cooking on a Stick: Campfire Recipes for Kids; Cooking in a Can: More Campfire Recipes for Kids; Sleeping in a Sack: Camping Activities for Kids; Fishing in a Brook: Angling Activities for Kids; Wishing on a Star: Constellation Stories and Stargazing Activities; and Trekking on a Trail: Hiking Adventures for Kids, all of which are similarly kid-friendly and delightfully simple. Small trim size (6"x8") combined with bright graphics, easy to read text, and nine zingy chapters (Let's Picnic, Breakfast Picnic, Bicycle Picnic, Haunted Picnic, Snow Picnic, Surprise Picnic, Beach Picnic, Drive-In Picnic, Create Your Own Picnic) combine to make this one a hit. Kids should be encouraged to make picnics, a sort of recreational "running away" with friends, in my opinion. Each chapter has a few ideas for food (mostly traditional kid-stuff) and fun activities (again, traditional games that too often have fallen from tradition) that encourage kids to slow down their headlong rush into adult consumerhood and stop and be kids for a while. At risk of sounding like a retro old fogey, I must admit to loving this whole series because it encourages kids to be KIDS and do kid-stuff in mostly non-electric, non-media driven ways. The publisher's done a terrific job with this series which soon will include Riding on a Range: Western Activities for Kids; Haunting on a Halloween: Frightful Activities for Kids; and Putting on a Party: Adventure Parties for Kids. Highly recommended for parents, grandparents, Big Brothers/Sisters, mentors, and anyone with their hat turned around frontways.