A Beatrix Potter Book Club

For the month of July, or homeschool nature co-op read through the beloved Beatrix Potter’s stories, and celebrated with a lovely picnic on a hot summer’s day at our friends farm. We enjoyed themed food, chatting about the author and illustrator, and making a fun craft. It was another beautiful and fun Book Club success! If you are looking for ideas on hosting your own Beatrix Potter book club or party, I hope you can get some good ideas and inspiration here!

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The Food Table for a Beatrix Potter book club

For every book club, we create a sign-up sheet within the BAND app, so we can all pitch in bringing food. I always love to see how it all comes together. It always turns out so beautifully!

fresh cut veggies
bread and butter
fresh plums, pears, and blackberries
hard-boiled eggs
Trail mix/mixed nuts
lemon poppy seed muffins
blackberry muffins
iced chamomile tea
sweet tea
blackberry tea

A Beatrix Potter Book Club veggies — This enameled pan comes with a lid and I use this thing ALL the time! Great for traveling with muffins, too!

I made these food labels and taped them to a pretty gingham print that I printed out on cardstock from Christy Beasley Creative.

A Beatrix Potter Book Club lemon poppy seed muffins

I made muffin toppers by printing out the Beatrix Potter mini unit study from Christy Beasley Creative on cardstock and then cutting each character out and taping it to a toothpick.

A Beatrix Potter Book Club blackberry muffins

A Beatrix Potter Book Club hard boiled eggs

A Beatrix Potter Book Club fresh bread and butter

A Beatrix Potter Book Club pears — They don’t make this Peter Rabbit stuffy anymore, but here is another cute one.

A Beatrix Potter Book Club iced tea — I have three of these mason jar-style glass drink dispensers, and use them at every single gathering! They are worth the investment if you enjoy hosting.

One of the girls in our co-op set up this magical little scene! Isn’t it just darling?

A Beatrix Potter Book Club plates and napkins — These napkins I bought years ago, but they are from Meri Meri, and you can find very similar ones here.

Paper plates are from Target.

Peter Rabbit causing mischief and breaking pots!

The Activity

A member of our group has taken over the crafts for book club, and I just love what she comes up with! She originally thought about painting terracotta pots, but decided on making these towels, and I think they are so cool and the kids had a great time creating.

Using fruit and veggies as stamps, they stamped and painted on their towels and then hung them to dry in a tree. So much creativity and personality came through with this project!