Episode Description: It’s lunchtime on Bluey’s back deck! But every BBQ needs a side salad, so Bingo’s relaxing sit-down will have to wait until she finds every colour of capsicum her cousins asked for!
ACTIVITIES:
- Set up a pretend BBQ play area for the kids – let them choose items to stand in for food, the way Bingo does in her quest for every colour of capsicum.
- Alternatively you could paint some vegetable stones – these work great for pretend play, as “story stones” or even as garden markers.
- Speaking of vegetable gardens, now’s a great time to start one with the kids. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Unusual Veggies to Plant – things like “dragon’s tongue beans” and “candy cane capsicum”! Whatever gets them eating more veg, right?
- Grow a Kids’ Snacking Garden – fewer snacks I have to prepare? Yes please!
- Easy and Fast Growing Plants – you may have a blooming garden before quarantine is over!
- You can use the tops of capsicums that would just end up in the compost bin anyway to do some paint stamping. The ends of a celery plant work great too. Check out some of the other veggie art project ideas from last week’s “Kids”.
- If your kids are to little to help out at the real life BBQ grill, they can almost certainly help make salad dressing. Measuring out ingredients is a great way to incorporate a bit of maths as well. Here’s six healthy recipes to try out.
- You can’t watch Bingo spray the hose all over without joining in, can you? While you can pretty much let them run wild with this, I thought I’d also include this great Garden Hose Maths Game – because I sometimes struggle with incorporating maths into play.
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