A story kids will love
Colourful characters and a picnic adventure that make healthy eating feel exciting rather than instructed.
by Jessica McAnelly · Registered Dietitian & Food Safety Professional
A picnic in the sunshine, a basket to pack, and friends to share it with. Along the way children pick up the quiet rules that keep food safe — in rhyme, without a single lecture.
A basket, a blanket and friends waiting. Children come for the picnic — the food safety travels along with it, where it belongs.
Wash your hands, keep cold food cold, cover what you carry. In rhyme and in a character’s voice, those turn into lines children repeat.
The last page is food on a blanket between friends — the reason all the careful bits mattered in the first place.
Colourful characters and a picnic adventure that make healthy eating feel exciting rather than instructed.
Gentle, age-appropriate messages about food safety, healthy choices, and the joy of sharing food with friends.
A good fit for story time, a nutrition lesson, or the conversation about healthy habits that follows either one.
Written by Jessica McAnelly — a rhyming picnic story about food safety and sharing.
Buy on AmazonColour the five food groups, circle a favourite in each, then draw a healthy meal of your own.
Open the TadaKitWhy it matters, how to run it, and the questions to ask while children colour.
See what’s insideWhere to pause, what to ask, and how to carry the picnic rules into a real lunchbox.
Get itOne email unlocks the printable guide — the TadaKit and the book link are open to everyone.
One plate, five food groups and a box of crayons. Children colour each section, circle a favourite food in every group, then draw a healthy meal of their own — and talk about why they chose it. Free to print.
Open the TadaKitWe build printable kits, guides and activities around a book’s own characters — the way this one was built around Birdie. Same method, your story.