There are lots of learning activities you could include in your picnic:

• Make decorations such as flags, bunting and banners with a Union Jack or VE Day theme.

• You could write invitations to the people/toys invited to your picnic. 

• Write a list of things you need for your picnic, share out cups, plates and food equally so everyone has the same amount. 

• Make healthy food choices for your picnic and talk to your adult about why these foods are good for you and what they will do for your body. 

• Help an adult prepare the food following the adults instructions or a recipe. 

• Talk about capacity when having drinks- is you cup empty or full? How do you know? 

• Practise good manners remembering to say please and thank you.

• Have 1940s music on during your picnic which would have been popular when the war ended to listen to and dance to. (You can find this on YouTube)

• Take photographs during your picnic. 

• Help to tidy up when the picnic is finished.

• Linked to this you could play a picnic memory game with your family: The first player will say for example "I will bring some apples on my picnic, the next player has to repeat the last players idea and add their own i.e. "I will bring some apples and biscuits on my picnic. The game continues like this with the next player remembering the previous players items and adding their own until someone forgets the list or an item.

• Stories you could read/watch and discuss to link with the theme are:

Picnic by Nick Inkpen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1KudPcaHaw

Picnic by John Burningham: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMlwHKifRQ

At 11.00 am there will be a national moment of Remembrance with a 2 minute silence to honour the men and women who gave their service and sacrifice of the Second World War. You can sit, stand, hold hands or look out of the window during this time - which ever way you choose is fine.

At 9pm, the UK will be singing Dame Vera Lynn's song 'We'll meet again' to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. If you would like to join in the singing, the words are included below in the 'Word' document.

There is also a pack from Bletchley Park which includes recipes, bunting templates, flags, songs, dances and more to give you ideas on how to celebrate VE Day.