Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Soup Day by Melissa Iwai!
Leanna and I have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. Starting on Monday, May 2nd (today), the kits are available to pick up for our online storytime for the whole month!
Enjoy a FREE copy of the book, and have fun doing the activities.
Everything is yours to keep!
"Soup Day" by Melissa Iwai
“On a cold, snowy day, a young girl and her mother shop to buy ingredients for vegetable soup. At home, they work together — step by step — to prepare the meal. While the soup is cooking, they spend the time playing games and reading. Before long, Daddy's home and the family sits down to enjoy a home-made dinner. This book celebrates the importance of making a nutritious meal and sharing in the process.”
Watch the author read her story for Authors Everywhere on YouTube! She did such a great job; we hope you enjoy her reading as much as we did!
Kits include:
a FREE copy of Soup Day by Melissa Iwai
information page
colors game (5 colored carrots)
a flyer for this website
2 activity pages
2 coloring pages
bookmark page
rhymes/song pages with web links (instrument included)
Make Your Own Soup craft
3 magnets from the story
stickers
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included carrot handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the orange carrot?
Orange carrot, orange carrot?
Can you show me the orange carrot?
And wave it in the air?
Purple… yellow… red… green
Hold It High – Choose one carrot from handouts
Hold your carrot high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your carrot below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your carrot against your nose
Now touch the carrot to your toes
Touch your carrot to the ground
Now wave that carrot all around!
Hold your carrot in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your carrot and jump up high!
Now let your carrot fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments
Special Soup by Jack Hartmann
Carrot Soup by YooHoo TV
ABC Soup Song by CoComelon
Tasty Soup Song by NotesnLines
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
Pea Soup
1 little pea jumped into the pot
(“jump” child)
And waited for the soup to get hot.
(hold up one finger)
2 little peas jumped into the pot
And waited for the soup to get hot.
(hold up two fingers)
3 little peas jumped into the pot
And waited for the soup to get hot.
(hold up three fingers)
4 little peas jumped into the pot
And waited for the soup to get hot.
(hold up four fingers)
5 little peas jumped into the pot
And waited for the soup to get hot.
(hold up five fingers)
Finally the soup got so very hot
(“jump” child five times quickly)
All the little peas jumped out of the pot!
(wave hand with all fingers extended)
ACTION RHYMES
Vegetable Soup Song
(tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
The soup is boiling up,
The soup is boiling up,
Stir slow—around we go
The soup is boiling up!
First we add the broth,
First we add the broth,
Stir slow—around we go
The soup is boiling up!
Next we add some carrots,
Next we add some carrots,
Stir slow—around we go
The soup is boiling up
Repeat with: potatoes, celery, onion – any vegetable you can think of!
Chop Chop
Chop, chop, choppity-chop!
Chop off the bottom and chop off the top.
What we have left goes into the pot.
Chop, chop, choppity-chop!
This is the Way We Make the Soup
(tune: The Mulberry Bush)
This is the way we wash our vegetables,
Wash our vegetables, wash our vegetables.
This is the way we wash our vegetables,
When we make our soup!
…chop…
…stir…
…eat!…
Stir, Stir, Stir the Soup
(Tune: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”)
Stir, stir, stir the soup
Stir it all day long.
Add some carrots
Take a taste (slurrrp!)
Soup will make us strong!
(flex arm)
Stir, stir, stir the soup
Stir it all day long.
Add some onion
Take a taste (slurrrp!)
Soup will make us strong!
(flex arm)
Repeat with: potatoes, celery, corn – any vegetable you can think of!
EXTRA LINKS!
Melissa Iwai’s site: https://www.melissaiwai.com/
Melissa Iwai’s Facebook:
Let us know what your little ones thought of Soup Day! What did they think of the activities? Do you have any suggestions for us?