Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Lesson Plans

Winter Lesson Plans

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Snack Ideas

Snacks provide an exciting and fun way to incorporate Bill Martin Jr. works into an early childhood program. Bill Martin Jr. books provide ample opportunity for healthy themed snacks. 

Please be aware of health and safety policies when it comes to snacks in your program. The following ideas may contain possible allergens and choking hazards.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 

• Half a banana, sliced in half lengthwise on a plate for the trunk of the palm tree with apple slices, pear slices, or kiwi slices for palm tree leaves and whole grain alphabet cereal or crackers
• Pudding cups with pretzel sticks poked in and dried apple chips for leaves stuck on top with peanut, almond, or soy nut butter to make a palm tree
• Whole grain letter crackers, grape tomatoes cut in half, cucumber slices and cheese cubes

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

• Rice cakes spread with peanut, almond, or soy nut butter with a banana slice nose, pretzel ears and raisins for eyes and a mouth
• Whole grain crackers spread with hummus and topped with raisins for eyes and mouth
• Whole grain toast with banana slices for ears and nose and raisins or chocolate chips for eyes

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You See?

• One scoop of ice cream with banana slices for ears and chocolate chips for eyes and a nose
• The frosted half of an Oreo cookie with raisins or tiny chocolate chips for eyes and mini marshmallows for ears
• Ritz crackers spread with cream cheese and sliced black olives for eyes and a whole black olive for a nose

Little Granny Quarterback

• Football shaped grilled cheese sandwiches with cheese sticks placed on top like the laces on a football
• Cheese, whole grain crackers, and ham slices shaped like footballs

The Ghost-Eye Tree

• A glass of milk, Broccoli florets to be the trees, round slices of mozzarella cheese for the moon, pretzel sticks for fence posts
• A round quesadilla for the moon and ham strips arranged to make a tree

The Magic Pumpkin

• Whole tangerines or clementines with jack-o-lantern faces drawn on them
  
• Peeled clementines with celery stick stems
  
• Open-faced jack-o-lantern sandwiches with holes and shapes cut out of the cheese slices