Storytime: S is for Soup
Storytime: S is for Soup
Soup is always a good idea! Not only is it delicious and comforting on a cold, chilly day, but making it together with your child becomes a recipe for learning and development experiences. These can include nutritional awareness, healthy eating habits, enhanced motor skills, cognitive development, creativity and experimentation, family bonding, self-confidence and independence, and healthy weight management. For more information on the benefits of cooking as a family, check out this great article from Little Prints Daycare. Happy cooking!
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Ages 2-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Cooking as a family not only helps your child appreciate healthy food, but it also can add to your child’s development. The kitchen is the ultimate classroom where science, math, language, and motor skills can come to life. ~National Head Start Association
Activity
Practice counting while you stir, measure, or sort foods to encourage an understanding of math and build fine and gross motor skills. After chopping, plop ends of the green onions into water to watch roots grow. Find fun new words to describe the way foods look, feel, taste, smell, and even sound when we prepare them. –NHSA Cooking With Kids
Books Presented
Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth
Penguins Love Their ABC's by Sarah Aspinall
Lucky Duck by Greg Pizzoli
Bug Soup by Vince Cleghorne
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
There are Noodle in My Soup
(tune “If You’re Happy”)
There are noodles*, noodles, noodles in my soup
There are noodles, noodles, noodles in my soup
There are oodles, oodles, oodles
Of the most delicious noodles
There are noodles, noodles, noodles in my soup
*carrots, onions, broccoli, potatoes (sing lines 3 & 4 regular)
Source: Storytime with Ms. Emily Library
Making Soup
Here is the chef, making a soup (wiggle thumb)
Add a pinch of this, (touch thumb to pointer finger)
add a dash of that (touch thumb to middle finger)
A little bit of this, (touch thumb to ring finger)
and a whole lot of that (touch thumb to pinky finger)
Give it all a stir, mix it ‘till it’s done (stir with all fingers)
Making soup is so much fun! (ASL- fun)
Yum!
Source: Music with Shannon
Making Alphabet Soup
(to the tune of “Farmer In The Dell”)
We’re making alphabet soup,
We’re making alphabet soup.
Stir the pot; soup’s getting hot.
We’re making alphabet soup.
First we’ll add an A;
And then we’ll add a B.
Next we’ll add C, D, & E.
We’re making alphabet soup.
Next we’ll add an F,
And then we’ll add a G.
After that we’ll add H, I, & J.
We’re making alphabet soup.
Then we’ll add a K,
And next we’ll add an L.
After that we’ll add M, N, & O.
We’re making alphabet soup.
Next we’ll add a P,
And then we’ll add a Q.
After that we’ll add R, S, & T.
We’re making alphabet soup.
Then we’ll add a U,
Followed by a V.
And last we’ll add W, X, Y, Z.
We made alphabet soup!
SLURP – Yum,Yum!
I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup
By Laurie Berkner
I feel crazy so I jump in the soup
I feel crazy so I jump in the soup
I feel crazy so I jump in the soup
I jump jump jump in the soup
…swim…
…gallop…
…splash…
….sit….
Crafts and Activities
Soup Coloring Page created on Canva
Alphabet Sensory Bag
Additional Books
A Soup Opera by Jim Gill
Gator Gumbo: A Spicy-hot Tale by Candace Fleming
Penny Pangolin and the Rock Soup by Wayne D. Kramer
The village festival is on! Penny is in for an unsettling surprise when she unexpectedly eats something that makes pangolins sick. Her friend comes to the rescue with a remedy only a pangolin could appreciate–homemade rock soup!
