For years I kept a stone in a drawer in my kitchen. Why, you ask? Because my kids and I needed it to make stone soup! The classic story, Stone Soup, tells about a weary traveler who arrives in a village hungry and without food. None of the villagers wish to share food with him until he says he can make soup from a stone. The villagers offer first an onion, and finally some juicy beef bones. - See more at: http://families.naeyc.org/learning-and-development/reading-writing/read-and-eat#sthash.7b0XRVRE.dpuf