Lots of great activity ideas for involving young people in prep for The Big Lunch, use or adapt for your class or youth group, or simply to get the kids on your street excited before the big day!
Get your group to explore their favourite songs or advertising jingles. What makes a good tune? What makes a good lyric? What makes a good jingle? Could your group write the lyrics of a song or jingle that advertises The Big Lunch? How about a rap or song that talks about the people where they live?
Get someone in from your local radio station to talk about good party songs and jingles. Perhaps they could judge a jingle competition?
Once your group have come up with a jingle or song, could they find out if someone in their neighbourhood plays an instrument or could help them create a piece of music to record or sing at their event?
For The Big Lunch, why not sing or play a song to get the party going. Could your group get their radio jingle played on the local or community radio station?
If you need some inspiration, our friends at the DaCapo Music Foundation have commissioned Hollywood composer John Ashton Thomas to write a song for The Big Lunch called ‘Celebration’. The school children in this video recently performed the song for Big Lunch Ambassador, Barbara Windsor at the Eden Project! Get your group to sing, play and perform it before they try to write their own song.
Download the sheet music and mp3.