Food: Vegetables Theme

Pratt's Educational Resources
ABC Activities
The ABC's of Snacking
Garden Theme

See food for coloring pages.

Books

Math: Measure different vegetables with a ruler. Draw the vegetable and record the results.
For younger children, just measure the vegetables.

Arts & Crafts
Vegetable Prints
Cut off part of different vegetables (an adult needs to do this). Place into kids paint onto a piece of paper or construction paper. Stamp on the paper. You can even make different animal shapes or make people using different vegetables.

Snack: Eat vegetables.

Arthur's B&W Vegetable Clip Art Coloring pages.
Birds Eye Frozen Vegetables Kids Activity Pages Connect the Dots (carrot and another vegetable), Coloring Pages with facts, fruit and vegetable word find, and a maze
CyberSleuth Kids: Vegetable Coloring Pages
HCFK: Level 2: Chapter 1 (pdf) Carrot, tomato, peas, broccoli, corn, potatoes, and green beans
Kid's Corner - "I Know My Backyard" Coloring Book
Tomato, carrot, green beans, pumpkin, and corn
Nutrition Coloring Book Pages @ DLTK "... is for ..."
Preschool Coloring Pages @ Everything Preschool
Vegetables Coloring Pages @ coloring.ws Carrot, carrot connect the dots, and corn

Soup Theme

Stone Soup Story Bag

1.Stone Soup by various authors
(This book is based on a French folk tale.)

2. Bry-Back Manor Stone Soup Story & Pictures

3. Cooking: After reading Stone Soup make stone soup. Place a clean stones in a pot of water. Have your students bring their favorite vegetable to put in the soup or if you are homeschooling have your children place their favorite vegetables in it. Add some salt or seasoning salt to the soup. Place some cut up meat in the soup and let cook.

Other Related Books

Cooking: Make the recipe in the back of the book or make your own vegetable soup.

Carrot
Book

Have the children count carrot seeds (addition and/or subtraction).

Glue some carrots seeds on some index cards. Laminate it. Use these so children can match and count how many are on the card. They can even right how many are on the card with a crayon or pen that wipes clean.

Plant carrot seeds in a garden or in soil in a pot.

Cooking:
Make carrot bread or cake.
Eat carrots.

Bolthouse Farms (Carrots) Recipes and Fun with Carrots (Connect The Dots, 5 A Day Coloring Page, Mystery Picture, Secret Vegetable, Vegetable Parade Coloring Page, and Finer Puppets.)
The Carrot Seed Activities
I Know My Backyard Coloring Book - Carrots
5aday.com Coloring Book: Carrot Dot-to-Dot
Number Worksheets @ Premier Day CareCount & Colour (carrots)

Corn
Book

Rhymes
Enchanted Learning - Little Boy Blue and Printout to Color

Cooking: Eat corn or corn of the cob.

Art: Paint with corn on the cob.

See food for coloring pages.

Information
Corn Refiners Association

Green Beans
Green Beans

Leafy Greens: Broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, and many more
The Leafy Greens Council Including lesson plans, recipes, etc.

Peas
Five Fat Peas Rhyme @ jojoy.com

See food for coloring pages.

Potato
Games
Games Kids Play - Hot Potato

Cooking: Make potato salad.

See food for coloring pages.

Potato-Skin Toxins, and How to Lower Your Risks

Squash
It is a fruit but it is cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Zucchini
Zucchini is a fruit from the squash family but it is used as a vegetable.

Eat cooked zucchini.
Make zucchini muffins or dairy-free zucchini muffins. While you make muffins, sing "The Muffin Man" located at: Food Theme: Muffins.
Zucchini Craft
Using part of a zucchini, stamp the zucchini onto paper.