We’re focusing on Love (or at least trying to!) during February. I wanted to share some of the ways we’re doing that.
In addition to commemorating the enigmatic Saint Valentine, I wanted to encourage the kiddos to use the “Valentine’s Day season” as an extra opportunity to show love and kindness to others.
I liked this Valentine’s Day Count Down Chain I used last year and decided to make one this year too. On each of the links is a Bible verse about Love. Also, I added an activity or loving act for the girls to do. I just wrote those next to the verse.
Some of our activities this month are:
1. Give a friend a hug.
2. Visit our shut-in church members with Valentine cards.
3. Tell someone “Hello”.
4. Write Thank You notes to our teachers.
5. Make Valentine cards for our Grandparents.
6. Make Valentine treats.
7. Make a card for Daddy.
8. Obey your teachers and Mama and Daddy.
9. Share your toys today.
I started late on this (did February sneak up on you too?!) so I only have 9 links and activities. They love finding out what we’ll do each day, though some acts haven’t been met with as much enthusiasm as others…I’ll let you decide which those are.
Here are some other ideas for little ones:
Cut hearts out of paper.
Eat something red.
Call someone and tell them you love them.
Learn to write the word “Love”.
Learn to say “I Love You” in sign language.
Make Valentine bookmarks and leave them at a Senior Center or Library.
Spontaneous acts of love and kindness are also encouraged!
For our shut-in members we made very simple cards.
I made hearts with verses and let the girls cut them out and glue them on to pretty paper.
You can download them HERE and HERE if you’d like to use them. (Hope that works, I’ve never tried this.)
We attached the requisite chocolate!
We had extra Valentine cards that we were able to take to our doctor’s office last week. We gave one to our nurse. She hugged Clara and told her “You made my day!” That was fun. I think I’ll also leave some on the kitchen counter in case anyone stops by this week.
And since my babies love music, I made a “Love Songs” mix for them.
You can listen HERE.
Hi Aubri,
I just got home from a Have a Heart Party we had at church tonight, so it was fun to see this post! And I decided to listen to some of the music. The one I selected was Froggie Went a Courtin because my brother John used to sing that to me as a child, however his version was quite different. In fact, Butch’s nickname (one of them) for me is Molly after this song because I would sing it to him when we were dating (our 35th anniversary is coming up June 3rd!). I REALLY enjoyed this version and it was such fun watching the video of the family celebrating the wedding. I loved the little children dancing – everything about it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling 🙂 And did you notice the names of some of the guests were Hugheses? Please give a hug to all your sweet family from Aunt Leah. I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day and the whole month of Love!
Ohhh! I’ve always wondered where “Molly” came from! How funny. This song makes me smile and all this time I never knew YOU were Molly, Ha ha ha. And happy almost 35th anniversary to you and Butch! “Hugheses” makes me laugh. Love and hugs to you, have a love filed Valentine’s Day!