PANCAKE DAY
 

PANCAKE DAY
Pancake day is celebrated in February, on the day before Lent begins.  It was started in England as a way to use up eggs and butter before lent.  One of the best known Pancake Day celebrations takes place each year in the town of Olney.  The highlight of the celebration is a pancake race in which women flip pancakes in pans as they run.
 
PANCAKE ART
 
PANCAKE FINGER PUPPETS
Cut out 4” circles for your children.
Cut two finger holes at the bottom of each circle.
Let your children decorate a pancake man however they wish using crayons or marking pens.
Show your children how to stick two fingers in the bottom holes to make their Pancake puppet walk or run.
 
MARBLED PANCAKES
Cut out large circles that will fit inside a small cake pan.
Let your children take turns placing a paper pancake in the pan.
Then have them dip a marble into some paint and drop it into the pan.
Children then hold the sides of the pan and roll the marble all around the pancake.
Let each child roll 2-3 marbles over their pancake.
Let dry.
 
PANCAKE GAMES
 
MAKING PANCAKES
Cut 3-inch “pancakes” out of heavy brown cardboard.
Let your children use them to play the following games.
 
PANCAKE TOSS
 Place a pancake in a small frypan.
Have child try to flip the pancake by raising and lowering the pan.
 
PANCAKE WALK
Walk across the room and back while balancing a pancake on a pancake turner.
You could also have children try balancing a pancake on their heard or on their shoe.
 
PANCAKE DROP
 Stand beside a large frying pan placed on the floor.
Have children take turns dropping four or five pancakes into the pan.
 

PANCAKE MEMORY
 Take six pancakes and mark six with different shapes on one side.
Then mark another six using the same six shapes.
Turn the pancakes over and mix them up.
Let your children take turns turning over two pancakes with a small pancake turner.
If they turn over two pancakes with identical shapes on their backs, they get to keep the pancakes and have another turn.
If they turn over two pancakes with different shapes on their backs, they must flip the pancakes back over and they lose their turn.
Soon the children learn to try and remember where each shape was located.
 
PANCAKE COUNT
 Stack pancakes on a paper plate.
Let children take turns counting the pancakes in the stack.


 
PANCAKE DISCOVERY
 
COOKING PANCAKES
Let your children help you make a batch of pancake batter.
Then let them help you one at a time to make a special pancake.
 
SPECIAL PANCAKES
 Pancakes shaped like a snowman
Pancakes with chocolate chips dropped in.
Pancakes with blueberries dropped in.
Pancakes with weird shapes.
 
PANCAKE MUSIC
 

HAVE YOU SEEN THE PANCAKE MAN?
Tune:  “Do You Know The Muffin Man”

Have you seen the Pancake Man,
The Pancake Man, the Pancake Man?
Have you seen the Pancake Man,
Who Jumped from the skillet and ran and ran?

He jumped from the skillet down to the floor,
Down to the floor, down to the floor.
He jumped from the skillet down to the floor,
And ran and ran right out the door.

He called to wife as he ran,
As he ran, as he ran.
He called to the wife as he ran,
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Pancake Man!”

He called to the daughter as he ran,
As he ran, as he ran.
He called to the daughter as he ran,
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Pancake Man!”

He called to the farmer as he ran,
As he ran, as he ran.
He called to the farmer as he ran,
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Pancake Man!”

He called to the cow as he ran,
As he ran, as he ran.
He called to the cow as he ran,
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Pancake Man!”

He called to the dog as he ran,
As he ran, as he ran.
He called to the dog as he ran,
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Pancake Man!”

He called to the cat, as he ran,
As he ran, as he ran.
He called to the cat, as he ran,
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Pancake Man!”

Have you seen the Pancake Man,
The Pancake Man, the Pancake Man?
Have you seen the Pancake Man
Who ran and ran and ran?
                                    Jean Warren
                                    © Warren Publishing

Have your children act out the rhyme story.
Let your children think of different endings to the story.
 
 

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