Love Love Love Story Time

Since Valentine's Day is this week and some of the Valentine's Day books are too long for story time attention spans and my last-minute-way-of-planning-things so all the good ones are gone, I usually stick with a "love" or "pink & red" theme for story time. Of course, our craft always has to do with hearts!

The Books:

Clifford's Valentines by Norman Bridwell

The I Love You Book by Todd Parr

No Matter What by Emma Dodd

Activity: Down Around the Corner Flannelboard featuring felt heart cookies!

Down around the corner at the bakery shop
Were 5 heart cookies with icing on top.
Along came <insert name of kid> with a nickel to pay.
And they bought a heart cookie and took it away.

I gave out felt nickels to the kids so they had to pay me before grabbing a cookie off the flannelboard. One of the kids said he would rather just keep the money. Hilarious.

I'm so glad I found this on Mel's Desk because I use it a lot for story times when I need a flannelboard story quick.

It was so crazy during Toddler Time again this week, that I just have 10 felt brown hearts and 10 different colored heart felt "icing". I put the cookies on the flannelboard & gave out the icing, so the kids came up and put their icing on when I called their color. This was great since there are so many at Toddler Time and they all want a piece to put up at the same time!


What's in the Memory Box?
Race car! Egg! Tractor! ...... Every. Week. It cracks me up. 

Me: Did we read stories about a race car today?

Majority of Kids: NOooooo!  1 or 2 Kids: YESSSS!

Me: Are you sure?

1 or 2 Kids: YESSSSSS!

Me: Seriously?

Guess what. No race car. No egg. No tractor. AN ELEPHANT!!!!

 


Craft: Bouquet of heart flowers!

My favorite thing about a Valentine's Day story time is buying valentines to give out to the kids. Its like I'm in grade school all over again!