When the clocks change every year I am always that person that assumes
it is 9:45 when it is really only 5:15 pm. Since it gets dark earlier I also assume
it is now cold outside so daylight savings ending also kicks off soup season
(and boots season) in our home.
Every fall at the library I hosted a story time with a Soup theme. I loved
hearing from the children their favorite and most hated types of soups and
since it was always an ethnically diverse crowd I was always learning varied
ingredients cultures stick into those giant pots. While I never rushed home to
recreate the soup recipes I heard about, I did often Google image those
delicacies (which is basically the same thing).
Since I have a pot of chicken soup on the stove right now, I thought I would
share with you some of my favorite Soup books, a song and a craft so you can
host your own Soup themed story time in your home. A Soup theme also motivates
children to create their own recipes, grocery lists and get cooking in the
kitchen (with a parent’s permission and supervision). I highly recommend you
try this with your young one. After all, the families that cook, eat and read together
stay together!
Books:
Stone Soup – Marcia Brown (Or
any other version)
Alvie Eats Soup – Ross Collins
Growing Vegetable Soup – Lois
Ehlert
Chicken Soup with Rice –
Maurice Sendak
Pretend Soup – Mollie Katzen
The Soup Song:
(Tune of London Bridge)
Put some _____ (name ingredient) in the pot, stir it up nice and hot! Get
it ready for dinner, ready for dinner.
(OR: Put some _____
(ingredient) in the pot, stir it up, nice and hot! Get it ready for Shabbat,
for Shabbat.)
Soup Craft –
I used to print these out and have the children pick what they wanted
to add to their own pot of soup. There would also always be plain paper for
them to draw anything they did not see on the template but wanted to add to
their soup pot.
Bon Appetit!
