Opening: Big Books
Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story
Book: Where is Baby’s Valentine?
*The two's always love hunting for items inside the books, and they enjoyed doing this today.
Fingerplay/Flannel: Lovebug Hiding Game
Love bug, love bug oh so smart. Are you hiding behind the (name color) heart?
*I was very excited to find a Valentine's Day game, and this one is so cute! Check it out here.
Valentine, valentine, heart so yellow, wiggle around like a happy fellow!
Valentine, valentine, heart so red, put your hands up over your head!
Valentine, valentine, heart so green, clap your hands so you’ll be seen!
Valentine, valentine, heart so blue, put your hands on your shoes.
Book: Be Mine, Be Mine, Sweet Valentine
*I thought this book was adorable, but the two's weren't very enthused about it. I think they were too excited about our party after storytime to pay attention to the book at this point.
Fingerplay: Bee Mine, Bee Mine, Sweet Valentine
*The kids loved getting to see the puppets pop up for this.
Cut-and-Tell Story: Valentine’s Day on the Farm
*I really wanted to do this story with the two's, but they were too excited today to listen.
Action: Heart Dancing
*We ended storytime today by dancing around with our hearts and placing them on our flannelboard.
Kiss: A Heartwarming Book of Giving
Extra Books:
If You’ll Be My Valentine by Rylant
Llama Llama I Love You
Kiss: A Heartwarming Book of Giving
For the craft, the kids got to place stickers all over their butterfly. We got the idea for this craft from a picture I found on pinterest here. We put a saying on our butterflies that said "You Make My Heart Flutter". Below is what our butterflies looked like.
Preschool Storytime:
Opening: Big Books
Fingerplay/Flannel: Heart Matching
*I love holding up one item, and then telling the kids I want to find its match. I never hold up the correct match first, so that the kids can tell me that it's wrong. For our Valentine theme, I used these adorable hearts, which you can get here.
Book: Mole’s in Love
*This book is so cute! The kids liked guessing what animal mole was in love with.
Fingerplay/Flannel: Lovebug Hiding Game
The kids always enjoy hunting for something on my flannelboard, and today was no exception. We hunted for a lovebug, and I found this cute game here.
Book: Love Monster and the Last Chocolate
*The kids were super quiet during this book, and it made me so happy that they were completely engrossed in it. I took an empty candy box I had and made a prop for love monster, and they really enjoyed getting to see the one chocolate left inside it. Plus this book has a great meaning to it, one we all need to hear.
Fingerplay: Bee Mine
*This is a wonderful fingerplay and the kids loved telling me what food to feed my animals.
Book: Day it Rained Hearts
*I haven't read this book in a long time, and wanted to today, but I ran out of time.
Fingerplay/Flannel: Six Valentine’s
*I love doing this fingerplay with the kids, and you can find the words for it here. I am really excited to do this again, because I found some adorable felt mailboxes that I can place my envelopes inside the next time I do this fingerplay!
Book: Foxy in Love
*Foxy is in love, but he doesn't quite hear everything right his dear friend tells him. The kids liked this book, but didn't enjoy it as much as I had hoped. Next time I will read this near the beginning of storytime, when they aren't quite as restless.
Optional Cut-and-Tell Story: Valentine’s Day on the Farm
*I love doing this storytime during this time of year, but I had too much planned. But I'd rather be prepared and have too much to do than not enough!
For our craft today the kids made a fish valentine. I found the idea for this craft here. I loved it, but wanted to put the fish in water, so we made our own version which is below.
Extra Read-Alouds:
Here Comes Valentine Cat
The Day It Rained Hearts
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose
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