Love 😍
/I've covered Valentine's Day in years past, but this year I'm trying to get away from holidays. I did decide that love would be a suitable topic for storytime this week since we love our friends and our families.
BOOKS:
We read Bloom: A Little Book About Finding Love by Maria Lieshout and My Love for You by Susan Roth.
These were great for my storytime tots. My crowd is skewing younger so these are shorter books with great pictures. My Love For You is about a mother's love for her baby (with BONUS COUNTING!) and Bloom is about a little pig who thinks she's in love with a butterfly, but finds that her friend truly knows her best and has her back. Neither are heart-stoppingly awesome, but they are cute.
SONG:
We did two songs this week. I sang this one and accompanied myself with the ukulele.
The lovely Jbrary ladies have the melody and words for you and if you're looking for the ukulele chords, you can find them here at Storytime Ukulele.
SONG:
We listened and acted along to Laurie Berkner's "There's a Little Wheel A'Turning in my Heart."
The songs that go over the best really are the ones with actions to go along with them. Also just FYI all Laurie Berkner songs are terrible terrible earworms. I guarantee you'll have this one stuck in your head for DAYS.
CRAFT:
I found this gorgeous and easy craft on Pinterest. We made love trees from a cutout of MY hand. Which made it a huge tree since I have overly large hands.