Valentines Ideas - Story writing and ABC Puzzles
Children's literature is a good source for Valentines ideas.
Stories such as Little Bear's Friend by Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak, show children that love is demonstrated by small acts of kindness.
The Little Bear series are simple stories that are playful, warm and suitable for children, ages 4 to 8 years old.
Talk about how Little Bear showed kindness in the stories and how the children can show kindness to their friends and family.
Begin with a story starter ... Love is ...
- Depending on the child's ability have them write a few letters and words and/or have a buddy or adult record the child's Valentine's ideas
- Use pink paper and give students trays of crayons without black, dark blue and browns for a warm color scheme.
- See below for Little Bear books and Valentine puzzle ideas.
Valentines Ideas - ABC Puzzles
Materials:
- old educational supply catalogues
- 4 inch heart tracers or precut hearts
- scissors
- glue
Procedure:
- I love Valentine's ideas where the children do most of the work. These easy to make heart puzzles are fun for the children to make and share with their friends.
- Collect old educational supply catalogues and tear out a pile of pages featuring toys, dolls, puppets and books.
- Have children:
- trace and cut out a heart
- cut out and glue a picture of a toy or book and glue it on one side of the heart
- use the catalogue pages to find and cut out the letter that the toy or book begins with
- cut the heart in half in a zigzag fashion
- mix up their hearts with other children's hearts and solve the puzzles
- Have the child print the letter on the back of the heart piece with the picture on it to make the puzzles self correcting.
Purchase Little Bear Books here...
Little Bear's Friend
Little Bear Audio CD Collection
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