Tomato Vegetable Soup

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• herbs
• parsley
• thyme
• stem
• leaves
• mash
• tender

MATH

• Veggie Patterns
• Setup a vegetable pattern and have the children continue it:
• "peas, carrots; peas, carrots; peas ____"

SCIENCE

• Fruit & Vegetable Detectives
• Explain how in science, fruit have seeds; vegetables are parts of plants that we eat (leaves, stems, roots, etc.)

• Celery Is A Stem
• Stand a celery stick in red water (use red food coloring)
• Have children predict what will happen
• Leave out overnight
• Observe how the leaves will turn red
• How does this happen?

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Have the children create words with uncooked alphabet pasta

ART

• Soup Art
• Provide a disposable bowl to the children
• Cut out vegetable pictures from magazines (or create and cut your own from colored construction paper)
• Provide uncooked alphabet pasta
• Have the children collage a 3D bowl of alphabet soup by gluing the objects into the bowl