Storytime: S is for Soup

by | Jan 8, 2025 | Blog, Kid's Corner, Story Time | 0 comments

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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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

Book cover for Stone Soup by Jon Muth

Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth

In this retelling of a European folktale set in China, three wise monks trick a poor, frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity.
Book cover for Penguins Love Their ABC's by Sarah Aspinall

Penguins Love Their ABC's by Sarah Aspinall

Mama Penguin has hidden all the alphabet letters in the snow, with each letter marked by a clue, and her six little penguins must find them all and bring them home–to a big bowl of alphabet soup.
Book cover for Lucky Duck by Greg Pizzoli

Lucky Duck by Greg Pizzoli

Susan the duck keeps feeling unlucky, so when a wolf shows up with gifts she has won it seems like her luck is turning around, but soon she realizes the wolf’s intentions may not be as helpful as she imagined.
Book cover for Bug Soup by Vince Cleghorn

Bug Soup by Vince Cleghorne

Uh oh. Mrs. Hoop has lost her “Soup List”! Help her match each pot of soup to the correct zoo animal. Kids will be given ingredients of each soup as a hint to guess which soup belongs to each hungry zoo animal. As you turn the page, you’ll be given the answer! Put on your thinking caps and have fun helping Mrs. Hoop in the kitchen inside this big book of fun.

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!

Source: Adventures in Storytime (and Beyond)

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

Coloring page featuring a pot and all the ingredients for a delicious soup

Soup Coloring Page created on Canva

 

 

Make an easy sensory bag using easy to find items.

Alphabet Sensory Bag

Additional Books

Book cover for A Soup Opera by Jim Gill

A Soup Opera by Jim Gill

This is a richly illustrated story of a man, a bowl of soup and the man’s operatic and frustrating quest to eat it. The book is accompanied by a music cd of the opera being performed.
Book cover for Gator Gumbo by Candace Fleming

Gator Gumbo: A Spicy-hot Tale by Candace Fleming

A hungry alligator, slow with age, hopes to catch some good meat to add to his spicy gumbo.
Book cover for Penny Pangolin and the Rock Soup by Wayne D. Kramer

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!

Book cover for There's a Giraffe in my Soup by Ross Burach

There's a Giraffe in my Soup by Ross Burach

Each time a waiter returns with a new bowl of soup to satisfy a customer’s complaint, a different animal appears in the soup.

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