February 8: Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's Day (almost). Here is what we did on February 8th for Valentine's Day:

Books:

• Ruby Valentine and the Sweet Surprise 
• Love is all around North Dakota by Wendy Silvano (we live in ND, but there are other state versions of this book)
• Love Monster by Rachel Bright
• Froggy's First Kiss by Jonathan London 

My favorite part of story time is the kids' reaction to the stories. 

Love Monster was all around the kids' favorite book. The first page reads "This is a monster (hello Monster)." All the kids said "hello monster" with me. A few pages on, the book reads "poor monster" and of course the kids had to say poor monster. 

I read Froggy's First Kiss and of course every kid said "EWWWWW!" when Frogalina kisses Froggy. They loved it. 

Craft: Heart Window Clings

Materials:

• Washi Tape (Valentine's Day themed or other)
• Heart cut-outs 
• Glue

Instructions:

• Each child will need two heart cut-outs and some washi tape.
• decorate one heart with the tape
• once the hole is covered, glue the second heart over the first, so that the sticky side is down.
• Stick your completed craft to a window!

I had the kids make their heart on a ziplock bag, that way they could take the bag, peel the heart off, and stick it right on the window.


And of course we had to have a treat after story time, so I got these heart shaped suckers from our local Candy store (buy locally if you can!) and added a little extra to them with foam graphics I got at Hobby Lobby.