- Opening - If You're Happy and You Know It
- Book #1 - My Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall
- Book #2 - Where Is Baby's Valentine? by Karen Katz (lift-flap board book)
- Stand up activity - Hi Ho a Valentine (action song to the tune of "Farmer In the Dell")
A walking we will go,
A walking we will go,
Hi ho a Valentine,
A walking we will go.
A jumping we will go...
A running we will go...
A sitting we will go...
- Flannelboard - The Wind and the Red Paper Square (a cut and tell story that I found in a book many years ago, it has been so long that I don't remember which book it came from)
- Book #3 - The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond
- Activity - I Have a Little Heart (action chant I picked up someplace, I have seen different adaptations of it in many places)
I have a little heart
(hand over heart)
And it goes thump, thump, thump
(pat chest with fingers)
It keeps right on beating when I jump, jump, jump
(jump)
I get a special felling when I look at you
(point to children)
It makes me want to blow a kiss or two
(blow kisses)
- Closing - Egg shakers with the song "Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz)" from Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner
- Family Small Motor Activity - Create special Valentines by decorating heart shaped paper with heart craft foam and color pens
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