It’s #soupseason & what better way to kick of fall by inviting little ones to create any type of sensory soup. With the weather being beautiful & the excitement of learning about fall, we invited the children to make their own fall soup with foraged fall foliage leaves (green, yellow, orange, red, brown), pine cones, cinnamon sticks, puka pods, cinnamon spiced, twigs, water colored with @colorations.artoflearning liquid water colors from @discountschoolsupply, pots, bowls, & cooking utensils, to create some yummy fall soup!
When a child is adding, scooping, pouring, transferring and stirring ingredients it fosters creativity and enables children to experiment with science and math concepts. Children begin to understand and investigate with ideas such as more/less, same/different, many/few, empty/full, before/after, greater than/less than. Children also learn physics principles such as the effects of force (increasing the waterflow through increased force); effects of gravity (water runs downhill) etc.
The social learnings from creating soup together include collaboration, concentration, turn taking, problem solving, perseverance, self-regulation, and more. Children also gain physical learning through precision in pouring and eye-hand coordination. Sensory play through exploring the colored water and foraged loose parts with their senses is engaging and helps encourage exploration of science, language, color theory, and natural materials.
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