Food Curriculum, Day Seven (with patterns!)

Oh my goodness. Today’s activity is so cute I can hardly stand it! The next two days are “vegetable soup” days. Your book for today and Wednesday is Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert. I always use this book during my food unit and then again in the spring when we talk about gardening and things that grow. Of course, your song is going to be “Do You Know the Vegetable Soup Man” (or Veggie Soup Man, if you would prefer to abbreviate).

For art….if you had your students chop their “veggies” on Monday, hand out the bags of “chopped veggies.” If not, have them cut up the veggies first. Each student will need a soup pot with the inside cut out of it that has been run through the laminator or glued to wax paper to make a clear center. Have the students glue their “chopped veggies” onto the clear center. Once the glue has dried, run the pot through the laminator again. This is a very important step; if you do not do this the veggies will have a tendency to fall off.

For tactile today, make a huge pot of “vegetable soup.” Put water and red food color or bath dye into a clear sensory table to look like a big pot of tomato-ey broth. Put lots of vegetables and some spoons, bowls, and ladles into the table, and encourage the students to pretend that they are making vegetable soup just like in your book!

For fine motor, give each student a sheet of paper with their name written in large letters. Have the students use fruit and veggie stickers to “trace” or cover the outline of their name (Carson-Dellosa makes lots of cute stickers that are widely available at office and school supply stores).

I have provided patterns for the veggies and the soup pot below….