About Picnic Playground
Download Song Lyrics (PDF) "Putumayo Kids produces yet another must-have collection of world music hits that is enjoyed by the entire family." - Travelingwithbaby.com "Drawing from Australia, Cuba, Denmark, France, German, Canada, Trinidad, South Africa, and the USA, Picnic Playground offers a toe-tapping internationally oriented entertainment that will engage the attention and appreciation of children... Unique, original, thoroughly 'kid friendly', and enthusiastically recommended..." - Midwest Book Review
Music, food and good times just seem to go together. Putumayo Kids celebrates the joys of eating with a brand new, globe-trotting CD from their award-winning children’s Playground series. Released just in time to enhance summer get-togethers, Picnic Playground serves up a colorful basket full of tasty musical treats.
Picnic Playground provides a veritable feast of international songs about food, cooking and healthy eating in a global gumbo of musical styles and languages. American artist Jay Mankita’s opening song “Eat Like a Rainbow” sets the tone for the album, and the delectable songs that follow from Australia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Canada and Trinidad add to the exuberant musical smörgåsbord. These fun, upbeat songs will help get kids moving and dancing to the rhythms.
The artists on Picnic Playground sing so joyously about delicious food that you can almost taste it. Try Jose Conde’s wonderful “Bolitas de Arroz con Pollo,” chomp your way through Rhythm Child’s “Bowl of Cherries” and taste the tropical flavors of Asheba’s Caribbean “Ice Cream.” Before you go, finish off the picnic with milk and cookies, courtesy of Donikkl’s song “Milch” and Maggie G’s “Let’s Bake Cookies”.
“International food and music provide a great introduction to other cultures,” says Dan Storper, CEO of Putumayo World Music, who travels the world discovering new artists and sampling international foods. “My 4-year-old son’s face lit up when I played these songs for him and my wife loves trying out recipes I discover during my travels.”
Picnic Playground includes liner notes in three languages, English, French and Spanish, a child-friendly overview of the foods mentioned in the songs, as well as two recipes showing how to "Eat Like A Rainbow" by child nutritionist Barbara Storper, Founder of FoodPlay Productions. For fun snacks and recipes to download, visit www.foodplay.com or click here.
Watch the video: Johnny Bregar - "Shoo Fly Pie" | Shoo fly pie? Is that a pie that’s so bad even flies don’t like it? Is it made out of old shoes? Actually, shoo fly pie is made with lots of gooey molasses and it is so sweet that you have to keep shooing the flies away from it! Shoo fly pie is a traditional recipe of the Pennsylvania Dutch (who aren’t actually Dutch; they are German, but that’s another story).
This popular song from the 1940s also mentions apple pan dowdy, a type of apple pie baked in a pan with lumps of sweet dough on top.
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