Valentine's Day!

It’s that time again – hearts and pink and white and red!  Valentine’s still is one of my least favorite holiday but it’s all about candy with kids, you know?  So I went traditionally this year and read two Valentine’s stories and we did a heart-shaped craft.  I might have to switch up it next year though.

BOOKS:

Love, Ruby Valentine by Laurie Friedman (illustrated by Lynne Avril Cravath) and Froggy’s First Kiss by Jonathan London (illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz)

Froggy was (as usual) a crowd favorite.  It has sound effects (BONK!), voices (Miss Witherspoon’s FROOOOOOOGGY!) and general goofiness.  Ruby Valentine was okay – it was a little long and it didn’t scan quite perfectly so there were a few parts that I had trouble wrapping my mouth around.  

FLANNELBOARD: 

I chose to use SLC Book Boy’s Never too Little to Love flannel set for storytime this week.  We talked about how Timmy too Tiny wanted to give the Cat in the Hat a kiss, but he was WAY at the top of the board.  Each child took a different pieces and used it to help Timmy climb to the top of the board.  BUT! Oh no!  When he got to the top, all of the pieces fell down, but the cat jumped down to give Timmy a kiss any way.

The cabbage and the tea cup were my favorite parts of this set.  

CRAFT:

Our craft for the day was heart suncatchers.  I cut out a bajillion tissue paper hearts of various sizes and colors and circles  out of contact paper and construction paper.   This craft was SO easy and kids really liked sticking the hearts to the contact paper.  PLUS EXTRA BONUS! Good fine motor skill activity!