Princess Letizia's soup

[Italian version here: https://robygiup.blogspot.com/2020/03/la-zuppa-della-principessa-letizia.html]

One of our favourite books contains, among others, a story about a Princess named Letizia who goes to the garden to harvest some vegetables for a soup:

"carrots, onions, potatoes, zucchini, peas, beans, cauliflower, parsley and basil"

My son loves this story and knows this list by heart! So when I found around the house an old catalogue of a garden center with many beautiful pictures of vegetables I decided to make some cards to play and cook Princess Letizia's soup.

What we used: 

• a catalogue of a garden center, but you can find suitable pictures also in a leaflet of a supermarket

• cardboard, we reused an old box and the outer envelope of tuna tins

• scissors suitable for the child age (if they are all plastic, or if the cardboard is sturdy, you'll need also a pair of "grown-up" scissors) 

• glue stick

What we did: 

• we browsed through the catalogue looking for the pictures of the vegetables of the soup, choosing the pictures we liked most

• my son cut them out, you don't need much precision in this step 

• we glued them on the printed side of the cardboard, so that the back of our cards will be plain and we'll write whatever we want

• we cut them out, this time I helped with the "grown-up" scissors to have a tidier result and also because the cardboard was thick

Easy-peasy, right?! 

Why we like this activity: 

• we use scissors and glue, that we love! 

• we play with colorful pictures, a sort of "treasure hunt" to find the most beautiful

• we can use these cards in many ways: we use them to cook Princess Letizia's soup but they are great also to pretend to go grocery-shopping (here Santa Claus brought a wooden cash register and shopping cart so sometimes we play grocery shopping) maybe using a supermarket leaflet so we can create cards with several types of food, or you can create two cards for each vegetable and cut all cards in the same shape to create a memory game! 

• we become familiar with vegetables (but also fruits) that are the foudation of a healthy nutrition

If you make these cards and want to share your result with us, visit my Facebook page www.facebook.com/RobyGiup

And now... have fun!