Kitchener-Waterloo momstown Moms Potluck & Picnic with Nutella

Nutella knows how important breakfast is to every child - they sponsored our Buddies Brunch with FREE samples and even a grand prize giveaway for one lucky mom.  Assuming you don't have a nut allergy in your house, you can use Nutella to create a healthy breakfast.  Its a staple in our house, we love Nutella on toast, Nutella and peanut butter in a wrap, and Nutella on waffles, etc.... 

Nutella encouraged momstown.ca communities across Canada to have a Buddies Brunch Picnic, Potluck style!  And seriously, I don't why we didn't do this Potluck thing sooner.  momstown KW mamas came out, in masses, with large quantities of super yummy food.  Some healthy choices, some sweet, some not-so-healthy choices and some salty.  We had a feast! This kids even got to scoop out some of this non-traditional trail mix and sample it out of their little dixie cups.

 Once all the food was spread out, there was no doubt that this had to be the first order of business at our picnic brunch.  Food first, fun with our teddy's and buddies later!  This was a great chance for us moms to take a moment, to sit with our children and discuss the importance of having a breakfast (or brunch!) together.

 

  

After enjoying all our snacks and treats, we headed to the craft table to dress some colourful teddy bears - the kids could choose their favourite colour for their bear and then mix and match for outfit and hat colours.  Glue some googly eyes on and we had fun foam teddy bears all dressed for our picnic!

 

 

Once we had our teddy bears all dressed and assembled, we got busy playing teddy bear games with the parachute and of course, bouncing them around.  "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Touch the Ground"... got us all warmed up for parachute play! Then we settled on top of the parachute for some Teddy Bear story-time.  We enjoyed Brown Bear, Brown Bear and then the Big Bear Hug books, but full of colour with a great message.

momstown KW moms were thrilled with their FREE goody bags filled with Nutella samples, cookie cutters and cute buttons reminding them to always Love Breakfast!  Even the kids were super excited about their gift bags and couldn't wait to dig into them!  .... or show them off :)

Congratulations to Jacyln, our grand prize winner of the Nutella Backpack filled with lots of Nutella, more cookie cutters, pens and notepads! A very handy backpack for a mom with her hands always full :)

 Even the little munchkins enjoyed the fun of the picnic - I couldn't resist including these pictures.....

What do you get when you get a curious little guy about his gift bag and the jar of Nutella inside?  A very cute chocolate mustache and one happy little tummy!

And, we will defnitely be doing many more potluck picnics...