I found this wonderful book about a groundhog that encounters a fox when he wakes up to see his shadow called Brownie Groundhog and the February Fox. The fox is excited to find lunch while out on a walk. The groundhog invites him to spend time wandering the woods and have a picnic with him. Of course, the groundhog never plans on being lunch his plan to outfox the fox.
Since Groundhog Day is this week, I thought JDaniel would have a groundhog and fox picnic. I wasn’t sure that a fox and groundhog would eat for lunch so; JDaniel and I explored the reference section at the library. We pulled out the F and G encyclopedias and searched for what they would eat. He is way too little to totally understand what an encyclopedia is, but I thought it would be fun to show him a new section of the library. He enjoyed looking in the big books for a few minutes then he wanted to go look for machine movies.
What did we learn? Foxes are omnivores. They will eat meat and plants. They really prefer meat. Groundhogs like to eat plants and tree parts. They like nuts, berries, and grains the best.
JDaniel’s tin contained split pea soup, blueberries, cornbread, pears cut like trees, Cheerios, and a blueberry muffin. Most of the contents were things a groundhog would eat. The ham in the soup was for the fox.
What would you serve at a winter picnic?
This post is linked to Muffin Tin Mom.
Sounds like a great book! I thought your apple was a hand, hee hee. Love the fox and groundhog. Personally, I hope there are no shadows to be seen on the 2nd.
Split pea soup is one of my favs. Too bad Pierce isn’t so big on soup.
Oh how cute! The book looks like something my son would love. He gets very involved in his books when there is any element of danger. And I love the lunch you put together. I think any soup at a winter picnic is a good addition.
And I would be embarassed to ask some of the questions. Haha. I know they are simple things. In fact, I couldn’t even get my pictures to line up side by side correctly. And I’ve done that before. And its been *years* since I’ve done anything with html and if I got one thing to work, something else was off, and I got frustrated and just posted it like it is. Maybe I’ll get better with practice. Thank you for offering to help me. I might take you up on that one of these days. 🙂
What a great book and idea for a Muffin Tin Meal! I’m going to see if the library has the book here so I can read it to my girls…and perhaps even have a winter picnic. Very inspiring!
My girl would love all of this except for the soup. Which would be okay as I would totally eat that for her. :o) Sounds like a cute book – reminds me a bit of The Gruffalo… Don’t know if you’ve read that, but it’s awesome.
what a fun idea! I love your picks!
My winter picnic would have grilled cheese, tomato soup and some hot chocolate! Your meal is very yummy… especially the split pea soup. I love storybook themed lunches!
What a brilliant idea!
That is so cute and it’s fun that he checked out another part of the library. It made me giggle when you said he was ready to go check out the machine books!
Cute lunch! I love the theme you did.
I love your muffin tins!!! You are always so imaginative!
I love lunches based on books, my kiddos do too so I should really try to do it more! Happy MTM!
Such a great lunch idea! Split pea soup is just great in these cold days.
This is such a great post! Hmm… a winter picnic for us would probably include blanched carrot sticks, ham and cheese grilled cheese, and maybe a warm soup.
Great way to incorporate a book!
Adorable! I love split pea soup.
Such a cute idea! Now I have to go find that book! And the meal looks real yummy too!
You are so creative! I’m curious…the split pea soup, is it homemade or what kind? That sounds so good, but I’ve never made it.
I’m with SnoopyGirl! Grilled cheese, tomato soup and hot cocoa! Yummmm!
Love your tin, and love that you not only tied it to a story, but introduced him to the concept of ‘research’ to do it!
What a GREAT themed meal! I love how these are fun AND educational!
what a cute idea and FUN theme!
Oh now that is just too much cuteness!! I love it!
Great lunch…love the book and learning aspect too. Thanks for posting about your dips…never thought of frosting or tomato sauce! Awesome tip!
What a great idea! I just added your link to my list of Groundhog Day activities at the Living Montessori Now Blog Frog Community: http://iframe.theblogfrog.com/1378313/forum/78131/do-you-do-anything-(large-or-small)-to-celebrate-groundhog-day.html. Even though Groundhog Day is over for this year, I’ll have it there for anyone bookmarking activities for next year! Thanks for sharing your very creative ideas!