V is for Vegetables...and other garden things!

I can't wait for spring!!  What better way to prepare than a storytime about gardens and the vegetables we can grow there (and eat!)

Books

Rainbow Stew  by Cathryn Falwell

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!  by Candace Fleming; illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays

My Garden
(sung to: Skip to my Lou)

Sun in the sky, shine, shine, shine
Sun in the sky, shine, shine, shine,
Sun in the sky, shine, shine, shine
Help me with my garden!

Rain from the clouds, drip, drip, drip
Rain from the clouds, drip, drip, drip
Rain from the clouds, drip, drip, drip
Help me with my garden!

Seeds in the dirt, grow, grow, grow
Seeds in the dirt, grow, grow, grow
Seeds in the dirt, grow, grow, grow
Help me with my garden!

The Soup is Boiling Up!
(sung to: 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'll add the... (whatever vegetable you'd like!)

Next we'll add the...

Last we'll add the...

I have both plastic and paper vegetables for the children to add to the big, black cauldron to make our vegetable soup.  Both days I had to use the paper veggie cut-outs because we had so many children!  But they enjoyed "making" vegetable soup with the plastic veggies at the end of storytime!

Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Christmas pie
He put in his thumb
And pulled out a plum
And said, "What a good boy am I!"

What other food did Jack pull out of his pie?  Answers included: pancake, tomato, banana, blueberry!

Enrichment Activities

• Making vegetable stew

• Coloring a "Eat a Rainbow" booklet from Scholastics

• Hopscotch

• Sewing Cards
• White boards and dry erase markers