I hope that this recipe is also going to make part of their childhood memory when they grow up, as the story that inspired it. Every step of the process was related to parts of the book, so that they could see that the soup was getting better and smelling good. We were all so happy with all that celebration! They each had a packet of ingredients. Like what happened with the Scissors Salad: Kids at the school Cooking Club were motivated not just to contribute with one of each of the ingredients but also to eat more than two servings each. The test here made me adjust the presentation of many of the ingredients and to make it easier to cut and chop. Afterward they were too busy to try it - but we did. Too happy to pour a huge amount of garlic powder in the pot. They were all happy to cut, chop, break and throw the ingredients in the pot of the slow cooker. And she was mostly sure they could.ĭuring our playdate the kids got interested in the preparation of the soup and listened carefully to the old folk tale. So I asked Darienne if she thought they they could pretend that those cubes were stones. First I thought about carving chicken bouillon cubes to transform them into little stones, but that was not as easy as I imagined. So, before taking this recipe to be prepared by the group of kids in the Cooking Club at school, I tried to make it with the boys of our playgroup. Muth, chosen by one of my son's school teacher. So, they begin to cook stone soup in the middle of the town square. Muths many enchanting picture books include his Caldecott Honor Book Zen Shorts, Addys Cup of Sugar, Stone Soup, and The Three Questions, which the New York Times Book Review called 'quietly life-changing.' His books have been translated into more than 23 languages and are cherished by readers of all ages. It tells the tale of three monks who visit a town and are turned away by all when they knock on their door for charity. The recipe below - our 200th - was developed based on the book Stone Soup, a version of the folk story retold and illustrated beautifully by Jon J. Stone Soup by Jon J Muth illustrates beautifully what can happen when people work together. They can be so inspiring that they can lead to new ways to play - even in the kitchen. Few things in a kid's universe fascinate me more than children's stories.

Stone Soup by Jon J. Muth