JANUARY Book Babies + Toddlers: S is for Soup
Making and eating soup can be a sensory explosion for you and your child, especially when you make it together. Look for ingredients with a variety of colors, textures, and scents, then talk about where they came from, or count the pieces you’ve cut. Here are some soup recipes from Yummy Toddler Food which will entice the pickiest of eaters!
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 0 – 10 months
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 11 – 23 months
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
TIP
Cooking as a family not only helps your child appreciate healthy food, but it also can add to your child’s development. The kitchen is the ultimate classroom where science, math, language, and motor skills can come to life. ~National Head Start Association
Activity
Practice counting while you stir, measure, or sort foods to encourage an understanding of math and build fine and gross motor skills. After chopping, plop ends of the green onions into water to watch roots grow. Find fun new words to describe the way foods look, feel, taste, smell, and even sound when we prepare them. – NHSA Webinar: Cooking with Kids
Books Presented
Soup Day by Melissa Iwai
Every Color Soup by Jorey Hurley
Is That Wise Pig? by Jan Thomas
Mouse and Cow are making soup, but Pig keeps trying to add strange ingredients
Nose to Toes, You are Yummy! by Tim Harrington
Perfect for fans of Eric Carle’s From Head to Toe! Sing and dance along with tigers, pandas, giraffes, and more in this interactive picture book. Wave your hands! Tap your feet! Tug your ears! From the singer of Les Savy Fav, Tim Harrington, comes this joyful celebration that celebrates every delightful body part.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Dinner: A Shapes Book by World of Eric Carle
Die-cut pages illustrate the concept of shapes as a hungry caterpillar eats different things for dinner.
Mrs. Peanuckle's Kitchen Alphabet by Jessie Ford
Yum Yum! by Yusuke Yonezu
Eating by Liesbet Slegers
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
A Bouncing We Will Go
A bouncing we will go
A bouncing we will go, a bouncing we will go
Hi ho the derry o, a bouncing we will go
A rocking we will go…
A tickling we will go…
Let’s all go up and down…
Now… let’s go back and forth.
Source: Jbrary
I Feel Crazy so I Jump in the Soup
I feel crazy so I jump in the soup X3
I jump jump jump in the soup
…swim…
…gallop…
…splash…
….sit….
Source: Laurie Berkner
Making Soup
Here is the chef, making a soup (wiggle thumb)
Add a pinch of this, (touch thumb to pointer finger)
add a dash of that (touch thumb to middle finger)
A little bit of this, (touch thumb to ring finger)
and a whole lot of that (touch thumb to pinky finger)
Give it all a stir, mix it ‘till it’s done (stir with all fingers)
Making soup is so much fun! (ASL- fun)
Yum!
Source: Music with Shannon
There are Noodles in My Soup
There are noodles, noodles, noodles in my soup
There are noodles, noodles, noodles in my soup
There are oodles, oodles, oodles
Of the most delicious noodles
There are noodles, noodles, noodles in my soup
Source: Storytime with Ms. Emily Library
One Little Pea Jumped Into the Pot
One little pea jumped into the pot,
And waited for the soup to get hot.
Two little peas…
Finally, the soup got so very, very hot,
That all the little peas jumped out of the pot!
Source: The Librarian Is on the Loose
The Diaper on the Bottom
(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)
The diaper on the bottom
Comes off, off, off
Off, off, off,
Off, off, off
The diaper on the bottom
Comes off, off, off
Nice and clean!
Two Little Eyes
Tune: Five Little Ducks
Two little eyes to see all around,
(gently stroke around baby’s eyes in a circle)
Two little ears to hear each sound, (stroke around ears)
One little nose to smell what’s sweet, (softly pat nose with finger)
And one little mouth that likes to eat! (circle around mouth, then bounce near it with finger)
Source: King County Library System
If You’re Happy and You Know It
If you’re happy and you know it give a shake.
If you’re happy and you know it give a shake.
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it.
If you’re happy and you know it give a shake.
If you’re happy and you know it give a clap. (Clap shaker against palm.)
If you’re happy and you know it give a tap.(Tap shaker on the floor.)
If you’re happy and you know it do all three. (Shake, shake, clap, clap, tap, tap)
Away up high in the apple tree
Away up high in the apple tree,
A bright red apple smiled down at me.
I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down fell the apple — mmmm… it was good!
Source: All Nursery Rhymes
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