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Soup Recipes to Bring the Family Together
Age: 3+
Time: 30–60 minutes (or more depending on recipe)
Materials: recipe ingredients
Focus: develop life skills
Use the cold weather to make some memories and some soup this January which happens to be National Soup Month. If you’re anything like my family you spent the last few months baking every cookie and yule log recipe that popped up in your Instagram feed, so it will absolutely feel good to give your arteries a break and try a soup recipe instead.
Cooking together, whether sweet or savory, is classic family bonding time. It slows us all down, gives us a chance to talk and share stories, learn some new life skills (like proper knife skills,) cooking terminology, and a host of other skills.
Knowing how to prepare something from scratch, not a boxed mix or can, is a deeply satisfying skill. Amazing soul-satisfying soup can be made from just a handful of ingredients, so it’s one of the easiest things to teach young chefs to prepare. It’s also entirely flexible depending on your child’s tastes and maturity.
Whether it’s an old family soup recipe or the latest from your favorite food blogger, soup for dinner makes everyone happy.
If all you do is make dinner and listen to your child’s favorite Spotify playlist, then it was worth the effort. However, there are a few more ways you can teach your child some valuable life skills besides the necessary kitchen skills.
- Research the country of origin and/or the history of the dish you’re preparing.
- Make the meal a planning exercise, and ask your child to prepare a shopping list. Then make a special trip to the store together. If weather permits, take a field trip with your creation and eat it somewhere special (even if you’re sitting in the car!)
- Practice presentation skills by recording yourselves preparing the soup, and send it to friends or relatives to teach them your special recipe. Upload it to social media for fun!
- Pick your favorite cooking show and follow along together.
Expand you Family Soup Recipe List
Below are some of our favorite recipe sites for recipes and more ideas for cooking together.
Cold Weather is No Match for These Soup Recipes
11 Homemade Soups for Kids That Beat the Canned Stuff
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Somer Loomis
Somer is the Chief Content Officer at Raising Families living in Southern California with her seven-year-old son and two-year-old daughter. She spent 10 years in the architecture field as a designer and medical planner and now applies her love of integrative thinking and big-picture planning to her family and career.
In her free time she loves to try new recipes she knows her children will never eat and do art projects she saved on Pinterest at least five years ago. Read full bio >>
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