Stone Soup Lapbook

I read the story of Stone Soup a while ago and it was so cute that I decided to fit it in as a lapbook in between our five senses and body work. The story is about a clever little fox that outsmart some farm animals that was not that nice to him. He asked for some food and all the animals refused. He then asked for some water to make some soup and sheep gave him some. Proceeding to add a stone to the water and putting it on the fire to boil all the animals were intrigued, they tasted the soup and saw that it needed something, all of them in the end gave up some of their food for the stone soup! Cute story! There are loads of different versions of this book available. We used the one by Tony Bonning.

I started off after reading the book for the first time { we have read it multiple times now and I had to renew our loan from the library twice now :)} by preparing a tray with a naartjie, pear and a yoghurt cup on.  I then asked her to study the tray identify each object and to remember what was on the tray.  I then removed one of the objects without Mouse looking and she had to tell me which one I removed after she took a look at the tray again.  After this observation game we made a mini fruit salad with our ingredients on the tray!

For our second activity on the book I cut out some fruit and veg pictures from an advertising page from our local community newspaper as well as some sweets, chips and cookie pics.  I drew on two separate pages two pots for her.  One labeled Healthy Food and the other Unhealthy food.  I asked Mouse to sort the pics into healthy food options and unhealthy ones, explaining to her the difference and the benefits of a healthy eating plan.  She then had to glue the pics onto the correct pot.

I drew an apple on the healthy pot and a sweetie on the unhealthy one as she cannot read at this stage - this just helped her to identify the different pots on her own.

Here is the finished pots!

I also found some cute colouring in pages on DLTK especially for the stone soup story.

I made some flash cards of some of the animals as well as some items found in the book, I showed them to Mouse and asked her to identify the items in the book.

Mouse needs some practice with sizing, so I made these sizing cards for her, also with different items in the book.  She loved this.

In between all the Soupy fun we had to built a tent of course!

It is also important to dress appropriately when you are going to do some serious colouring in!  I made this tutu for her a few days ago and she looks so cute in it!

Have fun!