Looking for ways to make your child smile during school lunch period? These printable lunch box poems will make school cafeteria time a bit more exciting. You can print out the poems and include them in your child's lunch bag or box as a way to celebrate National Poetry Month, but as poetry is timeless, surprise your child with a poem all year long!
Our lunch box poetry printable includes 3 pages with 4 short, classic poems per page. That's twelve poems for those of you without a calculator handy.
The poets include Sarah Coleridge, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Frost, Shakespeare as well as poets more well know to children like Robert Louis Stevenson and Edward Lear. There are poems about plants, animals, the seaside, as well as one about an old man from West Dumpet.
MORE: For more "literacy learning at lunch" (notice how clever I am to use alliteration, a poetic device) check out our lunch box tongue twister notes and the lunch box word puzzles.
Once you've exhausted the twelve poems, I encourage you to keep up the lunch box poetry note tradition. All you need to do is write down some of your favorite poems, or make up your own, and sneak them into your kids' lunch sacks.
TIP: Make your kids laugh at lunch by including some of these funny poems for kids in their lunch box!
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More ways fill your life (not just your lunch) with poetry:
- Poetry reading challenge
- Poetry Mad Libs
- Poetry BINGO
- Pull the books off the shelves and write spine poetry
- Non-boring poetry books
- Classic poems for kids to memorize
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Maria Gianferrari says
Lovely idea!! Too bad my daughter buys school lunches--I may have to think of another creative way to use these. Maybe just a poem left on her bed, or on the table a day??
Erica MomandKiddo says
Yes, I love that! Maybe at breakfast? A good way to start the day. 🙂