Playing With Your Food Poem– Celebrating Fun with Playing With Your Food
- Deborah Ann Martin
- May 31
- 3 min read
The Fun of Playing With Your Food
Sometimes the best parts of childhood are the moments when rules are forgotten, and fun takes over!. My Playing With Your Food Poem captures that moment when imagination takes over and a simple meal becomes a full-on game. I watched my children and grandchildren sometimes make food more than just food — it becomes a ball, a boat, or a flying pie. This poem celebrates creativity, chaos, and the kind of laughter that only comes from not taking things too seriously.
Playing With Your Food
Kickball with potatoes
Curling with fries
Stickball with tomatoes
Hurling with pies
Laying with fruit
Eat on the run
Playing with your food
Neat and fun
Sliding with dips
Throwing with eggs
Riding with chips
Rowing with chicken legs
Knotting with spam
Swaying with beef stewed
Nothing is better than
Playing with your food
From Kid Moments: Poems for Early Readers
Part of the Life Moments Series
© 2025 Deborah Ann Martin. All rights reserved.
Reflection on My Playing With Your Food Poem
When I wrote my Playing With Your Food poem, I wanted to capture kids' imagination in everything they do, even at dinner time! Children see stories, adventures, and possibilities in everyday things that adults often overlook. This poem is a celebration of imagination, laughter, and even a little bit of harmless rule-breaking in the name of fun. It’s about more than just mealtime mischief — it’s about how kids see possibility and fun in everything.
I wish I were the person who said I just let my kids go wild at the dinner table. But there was a time and place. The harmless playing with food was one thing as long as they were eating. When they were playing with their food and weren't eating, that was a different story. We were responsible for making sure they had proper eetiquette when they went out to eat or visited other people. Sometimes, I was the cool mom who made food they could play with or could get their hands into. As grandparents, we try to make everything fun because it's the parents' responsibility to do all of that stuff.
Deep inside, though, I loved watching their wild imaginations, them laugh and play. I wish that I could have made every mealtime a fun time. Mealtime is the perfect time to play and have fun. I encourage you to create some mealtime fun and mischief purposely.
The Style Behind the Words
Poetry Style Name: Humorous List Poem
Structure and Form: 2-line bursts of action, building playful rhythm
Meter: Short, fast lines that mimic active movement
Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme: Mixed rhymes and near rhymes (fries/pies, run/fun, spam/stewed/food)
Sound and Rhythm: Loud, fast, high-energy — full of verbs and actions
Poetic Devices:
Alliteration & Internal Rhyme: “Stickball with tomatoes,” “Throwing with eggs”
Visual Imagery: Flying eggs, rowing chicken legs — bold and funny
Tone: Joyful, chaotic, mischievous
Explore More Kid Moments
If my Playing with Your Food poem made you laugh, you’ll love the rest of Kid Moments: Poems for Early Readers. Challenge yourself today to have a little food fun. If you have kids or grandkids, have a little messy food fun.
This collection celebrates childhood joy, energy, and all the wonderfully silly parts of growing up.
About the Life Moments Series
My Life Moments Series celebrates the real moments that shape our lives — love, heartache, laughter, and growth.
Discover Loving Moments, Love and Heartache Moments, and Kid Moments — collections filled with poems written from the heart, for every stage of life.
References
Kid Moments: Poems for Early Readers. Deborah Ann Martin, 2025.
Deborah Ann Martin Amazon Author Central Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/deborahamartin
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