Soup!

One of the preschools that I visit on Tuesdays is talking about food this month, so I thought I'd bring a "soup" themed storytime along with me.  I also used this theme for my in-house storytime on March 11th.

Opening: Open, Shut Them

Book: The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza

Song: Five Fat Peas; From Preschool Rainbow

Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed (hold hand in fist)

One grew, two grew, so did the rest (thumb and fingers up one by one)

They grew and grew (raise hands in air slowly)

And did not stop

Until one day

The pod went POP! (children clap their hands and jump)

Transition Rhyme: Touch your ears and touch your nose

Book: To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda

Flannel Board Activity: The Soup is Boiling Up; From librerin

The soup is boiling up

The soup is boiling up

Stir slow, around we go

The soup is boiling up.

First we add the carrots, 

First we add the carrots,

Stir slow, around we go

The soup is boiling up.

(Add carrot to pot)

Continue singing the song, substituting different veggies each time.

Here's our empty pot

Here's the pot full of vegetables!

Song: Sticky Bubble Gum from Sticky Bubble Gum...and Other Tasty Tunes by Miss Carole

Activity: Me Want Cookie; from Miss Sarah's Storytime

This is more a veggie activity than a soup activity, but it's fun and the kids loved it.  

We start with Mr. Bear.  Mr. Bear is hungry and really wants a cookie.  He lets me know this by saying, "Me want cookie!"

Well, all I have are vegetables, so I hold up a felt carrot and he begrudgingly eats that. (There's a little hole in the back of the bear's mouth, so it actually looks like he's eating the carrot!)  Of course, he's not satisfied, and he says to me, "Me want cookie!"

We go through this, using five or six different vegetables, until finally, I tell him that I found a cookie, only he needs to say the magic word if he wants it.  

So he says "Please" and "Thank you" and he gets the cookie!

Book: Chicken Soup by Jean Van Leeuwen

Closing: Skinnamarink 

Craft: We did a craft for our in-house storytime and made vegetable soup.  I gave the kids soup bowls and vegetables, and the kids colored them and glued the veggies in the soup.