Materials
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Vegetables: fresh green beans, pea pods, one zucchini or squash, one or two
carrots, one or two tomatoes, two or three small potatoes, two or three
broccoli stalks, one onion, one green pepper, and one small head of cabbage
Small plastic serrated knife
Four vegetable bouillon cubes
Crock-pot
Large serving spoon or ladle
Small bowls and spoons (one for each child)
Instructions
1. Adding any of the following items to your sand and water table will result in
new opportunities for discovery and learning while linking this center to your
current unit of study.
The GIANT Encyclopedia of Preschool Activities for Three-Year-Olds
Sand & Water
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Acorns
Baby dolls (to
wash)
Basters
Biodegradable
peanuts
Boats
Birdseed
Blocks
Bubbles and
wands
Buckets and
bowls
Confetti
Dinosaurs
Dishes (to wash)
Eggshells
Farm animals
Fish
Foam letters or
numbers
Food coloring
Funnels
Glitter
Gravel
Hay
Ice
Keys
Large buttons
Large wooden
beads
Leaves
Liquid starch
Marbles
Measuring cups
and spoons
Nuts (in the shell)
Nets
Ocean creatures
Pitchers and cups
Plastic foods
Pompoms
Rocks or pebbles
Salt
Sand
Sawdust
Seashells and
seaweed
Seeds
Silverware
Sponges
Snow
Squirt bottles
Styrofoam
peanuts
Teddy bear
counters
Wood shavings
Yarn
Zoo animals
