Syllable Picnic

I originally learned of syllable picnic from Kelly Thompson at her Phonemic Awareness workshop. She has soooo many great ideas! But I threw my own little twist into it. I looked & looked for a picnic basket & my sister-in-law had the perfect one she was kind enough to give me. My kids love this center & it is never forgotten for long!

There are three plates inside the basket. I used clip art & word art to create plate 1-3 with corresponding ant numbers. 

The kids simply clap & count syllables & place the food on the corresponding plate. This is also great practice for one to one correspondence & number recognition.  

Michaels You're Making Me Broke

Remember I mentioned I was building my collection of puppets??? Well, all of these except the blue shark were $2. The blue shark was actually only like 20 cents! He's a bath toy! No these are not exceptional quality or anything but the green one in the middle w/ red hair is pretty cute! So I'm counting on those Christmas puppets hahah just kidding...kinda....:) I know it is hard to see what they are so I will tell you. The green on the top right is a monster/dinosaur. Blue shark, green striped crazy critter- can be whatever I say he is lol, white lamb, pink pig, & brown monkey. :)

$1 picnic plates! I will be putting a center called Syllable Picnic into word work centers after we have covered this concept. I got this idea from Kelly Thompson @ Region 16. :) Thanks Kelly! So here are my "picnic" plates. Cute huh? I also have some ants printed out to go with this. Print syllable ants & glue them to plates to go with your syllable picnic center. I have a lunch sack (cooler type) with various objects in it that have syllables- 1, 2, or 3. Then the students place the object on the correct plate with that number of syllables.

I also found these awesome magnets!!! The pictures are so neat! I had to have them. I can't wait to use them somewhere!!! They were $2 each which is expensive to me, but they were too good to pass up!