Stone soup recipe for classroom

Read about the results of my making Stone Soup activity. It's a Thanksgiving-themed lesson idea for your primary classroom.

I was working on a batch of Stone Soup today, and thought it might be time to dig up, dust off, update, and reshare my favorite Stone Soup lesson from three years ago. It’s a great way to st…

Stone Soup Recipe

There are so many versions of stone soup AND the story of stone soup, but preparation of it is a group affair, & ingredients can be anything that works for you! This particular recipe comes from familyfun.go.com, & it's a great group activity. Two versions of the story can be found online, one at http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov & another one at www.thatsmyhome.com . Reading the story to the group is part of it all! The FIRST INGREDIENT--which I'm unable to list properly--should be "1 LARGE…

Stone Soup is wonderful book for retelling. Make a flannel board for story retelling, and print out our Stone Soup recipe.

Celebrating friendship is an awesome activity for kids. Relationships and belonging are an important part of development and future school success. Friendship soup is a great way to get kids thinking about others and sharing. Even my pickiest kids ate this up because they helped make it and shared ingredients for it.

Stone Soup is a great book to read this time of year! We just celebrated Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago and with my students talking about weather changes (brrrr!!!) what better book to read than one on soup! If you're not familiar with this book, it's about much more than making soup. I like to tell my kinders that the moral of the story is caring, sharing and being friends with one another make things much better (and tastier!). We've read this book a few times over the past week so my…

The name for stone soup comes from a European folktale about sharing with neighbors in need.

I was working on a batch of Stone Soup today, and thought it might be time to dig up, dust off, update, and reshare my favorite Stone Soup lesson from three years ago. It’s a great way to st…