Rainbow Soup for St. Patrick’s Day

Dear Reader,

A few weeks ago, when I was looking at color activities, I came across the book Every Color Soup. I decided it’d make a good activity for St. Patrick’s Day, so we checked the book out from our local library. Then I went ahead and cut all the vegetables and made my kids go wash their hands (I’m so over sicknesses this winter! I’m being a huge stickler on handwashing. No free passes!)

I read them the book, as well as one called Too Many Leprechauns (saw it as we were walking in and it was perfect!), and then said we were gonna make a rainbow for dinner. (*ps, not an amazon affiliate. I don’t get paid anything for sending you to them. Buy the book if and where you want! Maybe shop locally!).

I put the pot in the middle of the table, and we added the ingredients as they came up (note, not all of them are pictured below. They’re not in the rainbow, lol).

By the way, I bought French lentils from Amazon and they didn’t even stay blue! The recipe called for lentils du puy but a) I couldn’t find anything but orangey red or green lentils in the store, and b) google said French lentils were the ones considered blue. Shoulda trusted the book, I guess.

Either way, this activity was perfect! First because it talked about colors (something my toddlers are extremely interested in right now), and secondly, because one of my toddlers is very into “I cook like Mom,” right now.