Tasty Tales: Stir Up Some Soup

It's Time for some yummy Tasty Tales!  Join Lolly and her friends each Monday and Tuesday as they cook up good stories this summer!  Each week we will add a new food to our "Today is Monday" activity song.  The third food on our list is soup and we want to share with you some slurpy soup themed rhymes and books.

Vegetable Soup (Sung to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell)
Warren, Jean, Four Seasons-Movement, Warren Publishing House, Everett, Washington

The soup is boiling up,
The soup is boiling up.
Stir slow, around we go,
The soup is boiling up.

First we cook the broth,
First we cook the broth.
Stir slow, around we go,
First we cook the broth.

Now we add some carrots,
Now we add some carrots.
Stir slow, around we go,
Now we add some carrots.

Continue with additional verses about other vegetables your children would like to add to the soup. Finish with the following verse.

The soup is ready now,
The soup is ready now.
Stir slow, around we go,
The soup is ready now.

Try this website for additional vegetable soup songs, rhymes and games for your preschool aged child. 

For reading fun, check out these soup themed books: 

Delicious! by Helen Cooper
A story of what happens when Duck decides to be picky about his food.
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Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.
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Soup Day by Melissa Iwai
A mother and child spend a snowy day together buying and preparing vegetables, assembling ingredients, and playing while their big pot of soup bubbles on the stove. Includes a recipe for "Snowy Day Vegetable Soup."
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Chicken Soup by Jean Van Leeuwen
When they hear that Mrs. Farmer is making soup, all the frightened chickens run for their lives, but Mr. Farmer finds Little Chickie, who has a bad cold, and he takes her to the kitchen for some nice hot vegetable soup.
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