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Opening: If You’re Happy and You Know It

Fingerplay: I Wiggle My Fingers

Book: Who Wants a Valentine? By Linda Lowery

Song: Pass the Heart (Use big laminated heart for this. Speed: Regular, Fast, then really SLOW) Sung to the tune of: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Pass, pass, pass the heart

Pass it round and round,

Pass, pass, pass the heart

Now place it on the ground.

Book: If You’ll Be My Valentine (By Cynthia Rylant)

Song: Skinnamarink (See print out of songs)

Book: Guess How Much I Love You By Sam McBratney

Song: Hokey-Pokey (use small laminated hearts for this)

You put your heart in.

You put your heart out.

You put your heart in,

And you shake it all about.

You make your heart go jumping,

And you turn yourself around.

That’s what it’s all about!

Book: I Love You Because You’re You by Liza Baker

Song/Rhyme: Mail Myself to You (See print out of songs and rhymes)

Flannelboard: Lots of Valentines (words and pieces in plastic ziplock

bag)

Book: Kiss Kiss by Margaret Wild

Goodbye Song

Options for Younger Listeners:

I Kissed the Baby! By Mary Murphy

Baby Loves by Michael Lawrence

Flannelboard for Younger Listeners:

Counting Valentines (colored hearts and rhyme in plastic ziplock bag)

I use stuffed beanie babies or animals and do A Kiss for little bear. by E.H. minarik Charlene Swansen Youth Services. I like to do ‘ A circle is not a Valentine’ by Zimmerman. You could create a flannel for this story. I like to use big paper and paint to draw the shapes. The kids really like this story and think it is funny when I pretend that I don’t know what shape and color a valentine is.

Be Mine, Be Mine, Sweet Valentine (by Sarah Weeks) is fabulous lift-the flap, rhyming, guessing fun.

Lots of Valentines

I’ve made a lot of valentines, I’d like to give away, Red ones, pink ones, blue ones, On this February day.

Some of them have cupids, Some of them have bows, Some of them have tiny hearts, And this one has a rose.

Come and get your valentines, And tell me what you think. Do you like the red or blue, Or the ones I colored pink?

Directions – “Make several paper valentines using the patterns and/or design some of your own. Be sure to make enough for all the children who attend the program. As you say the poem place the valentines on the flannel board (a small piece of felt glued on the back of each one will ensure that they will stick). Let the toddlers come up and get a valentine after you say the poem.”

The book has 5 different heart designs that you can color and copy. I laminated the 5 for the flannel board, but didn’t make any for the children. However, you can if you’d like. The first heart has a rose on it; the second one has a cupid and the third has tiny hearts with an arrow through it. The fourth heart has bows all over it and the last one has a face on it. You could either make your own such as from an online coloring page website or make them with an Ellison die shape. Just a few ideas…

This fingerplay I used as a flannel board story/poem and it’s from “I’m a Little Teapot!” by Jane Cobb.

Five Little Valentines

This one is nice with valentines on a glove puppet or on the felt board.

Five little valentines were having a race.

The first little valentine was frilly with lace.

The second little valentine had a funny face.

The third little valentine said, “I love you.”

The fourth little valentine said, “I do, too.”

The fifth little valentine was sly as a fox.

She ran the fastest to your valentine box.