Alphabet Soup!

Earlier in the week we talked about vegetables. In this book a girl and her mom make some vegetable soup. They put some alphabet noodles in it. That's my favourite soup. Alphabet soup! In this story, what is the season? How do you know? 

Soup Day by Melissa Iwai 

We are going to make a picture of alphabet soup!

You will need:

Paper

scissors

Crayons
Markers or paint (watered-down tempera paint or watercolours)

First, you have to make your bowl. 

Find the biggest bowl that will fit on your paper, then trace around it. Cut out your circle. That is your bowl, as if you are looking down at it.

There are different instructions for what colouring tools you have.

Crayons and paint. 

Take a crayon that is the colour of alphabet pasta. That would be a yellow or white or a very light brown. Write small letters of the alphabet all over your bowl. Try not to get too close to the edge of your bowl.

Then take some watery paint, the colour of your soup liquid (something darker, maybe red, or orange) and lightly paint all over your bowl. The paint won't stick to the crayon. That is called a resist.

When your paint is dry, you could colour around the edge of your bowl so your bowl doesn't look too full! This should be a different colour. The colour of your favourite bowl. In Soup Day, the girls bowl is blue.

Markers and Crayons. 

Follow the instructions for Crayons and Paint, except when it is time to paint, use a marker. If you use washable markers, you can take a paintbrush or a Q-Tip and "paint" with water after you have coloured with the markers.

Crayons only
If you only have crayons, it might be harder. You can write the alphabet with crayons - and then use something else to "paint with" - food colouring, real soup, juice....

Markers only

If you only have markers, then colour the "soup" first with a lighter marker (yellow or orange), and write your alphabet with a darker marker.

Put a spoon on top of your finished bowl and take a picture!