July 10 is Teddy Bear Picnic Day! It’s a great time to add some summer learning fun with Teddy bear activities. And it’s a great time to reinforce mealtime grace and courtesy lessons! Teddy Bear Day is September 9, which gives another fun time to celebrate with some Teddy bear activities. On top of that, the second Wednesday in October is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work & School Day.
If you want to celebrate Teddy Bear Picnic Day tomorrow, here’s an article with some helpful information on the history of teddy bears and Teddy Bear Picnic Day: About Teddy Bear Picnics by Yuurei Serai at eHow Home.
Here are some Montessori-inspired ideas for teddy bear activities:
Montessori-Inspired Teddy Bear Picnics/Meals
I have a post with a YouTube video and resources on how to have a healthy and courteous teddy bear picnic.
You’ll find teddy bear picnic songs along with other fun teddy bear songs in my free teddy bear songs and rhymes for circle time.
Table Manners Practice (Photo from Counting Coconuts)
Grace and Courtesy – Table Manners from Counting Coconuts (also featured in my roundup post Grace and Courtesy Games at Home or School)
Teddy Bear Picnic 2012 from Songbirds Montessori School
Teddy Bear Tea Party as part of Mother’s Day Tea Preparations from Montessori Mama
Montessori-Inspired Teddy Bear Activities
Sorting Colors with Teddy Bear Counters (Photo from We Can Do All Things)
Early Learning with Teddy Bear Counters from We Can Do All Things
Bathing Baby Teddy-Bear (Photo from Family FECS)
Montessori Activity: Bathing Baby Teddy-Bear from Family FECS
“Sewing” Clothes onto the Teddy Bear (Photo from Barefoot in Suburbia)
“Sewing” Clothes onto the Teddy Bear from Barefoot in Suburbia
Teddy Bear Bread (Photo from Chasing Cheerios)
Teddy Bear Bread from Chasing Cheerios
Corduroy-inspired Montessori Grammar Work (Photo by Julie at The Adventures of Bear)
Bear posts, including teddy bear counters and teddy bear grammar from The Adventures of Bear (Photo from Corduroy Inspired Montessori Grammar Work)
Tonging Marbles onto Suction Cup Teddy Bear from My Montessori Journey
I’d love to hear about any teddy bear learning activities you’ve done with your child and/or students! 🙂
Montessori Monday Link-Up
Oh how fun!
Jen
Thanks, Jen! I LOVE teddy bear activities … how fun that there are actually special teddy bear days to observe! 🙂
Fun! Love the Corduroy grammar work. I am happy to be linking up this week. Thank you so much for sharing and for hosting.
Thanks so much … I love the Corduroy grammar work, too! Thanks so much for linking up. I always enjoy your posts! 🙂
This is such a fun theme! Thanks for the inspiration, Deb! The school where I interned had a Teddy Bear Picnic every year, and until today I thought it was a clever idea our director had thought up. I feel silly now that I know better, but I’m excited about the idea of carrying the tradition on now 🙂
Thanks so much, Melissa! I’ve never experienced any teddy bear picnics, but maybe I’ll get to when I have grandkids. It would be a fun tradition to start! 🙂
I love your bear activities! And I need to put Teddy Bear picnic day on my calendar, so we don’t miss it next year!
Thanks, MaryAnne! Of course, you can still celebrate it this year. We often celebrated days like that after the fact and said we were celebrating in honor of the holiday “last Tuesday” (or whenever it was)! 🙂
Lovely ideas! I love that post from We Can Do All Things with the counting bears! Thanks for sharing at The Sunday Showcase this week!
Thanks so much … I love that post, too! Thanks for co-hosting Sunday Showcase each week! 🙂
It may sound like a little bit of a ‘sissy’ comment for a man to be making, Deb, but how adoreable is that first picture with the young lad pouring the water with his little bear friend propped up next to him?! 😛
I don’t think that’s a “sissy” comment, BJ … that photo is totally adorable! 🙂
Deb, I have a post about celebrating Teddy Bears Picnic Day too! http://www.thebookchook.com/2013/07/lets-celebrate-teddy-bears-picnic-day.html
Sewing the clothes of the bear is a great activity for kids to develop their fine motor skills.
This is great Deb! Thanks for the tips.