Valentine Poems for the Felt Board

Here are some Valentine Poems that correlate well to heart shaped felts for the flannel board:

One Valentine I made for you
Make another, and now there are two
Two Valentines for you and me
Make another, and now there are three
Three Valentines, we want more
Make another, and now there are four!


1) Five Little Valentines
Courtesy of Homeschool and Beyond

 One little valentine said, “I love you.”  _______made another, and then there were two.
Two little valentines, one for me!  _______made another, and then there were three.
Three little valentines said, “We need one more.”  _______made another, and then there were four.
Four little valentines, one more to arrive;  _______make another, and then there were five.
Five little valentines, all ready to say, “Be my Valentine this happy day.”

2) Valentine Hearts
Courtesy of Perpetual Preschool Website

Contact_FullName: Chrissie
Contact_Email: childrensjunction@bellnet.ca
Area: Valentine's - songs
Idea:
Valentine Hearts, Written by the kindergarten class at Children's Junction Daycare.

5 Little Valentine's sitting on some lace
The first one said, I like this place.
The second one said, Red and pink are nice.
The third one said you can say that twice.
The fourth one said, Let's kiss an kiss and kiss.
The fifth one said, I hope you don't miss.


Further Reading Suggestion: Preschool Songs about Love

                                              Healthy Valentine's Day Snacks

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Printable Felt Board Stories: Templates

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five Little Ducks

Printable templates to create pieces for felt board stories can be found on a variety of websites. To read in more detail about how to make felt stories, read my  blog: Basic Instructions for Making Felts









These templates can be copied and used for felt board stories. In addition, find templates for making felt story pieces on the following sites:

DLTK's Simple Shape Coloring Shapes

DLTK's Felt Board Templates

childcareland

 Making Learning Fun

Preschool Printables

Five Little Monkeys

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Making Felt Boards

The felt board creates the stage where children can play imaginatively and where the storyteller can display the pieces. There are many blogs that illustrate effectively how to make felt boards/ flannel boards. It can really be quite a simple process. When you make your own felt board, then you can decide how big and what kind to have. There are so many blogs, it was hard to decide which to link here in this post. Some are more easier than others. Perhaps one of the simplest ways to place felt material upright is to attach small magnets on the back of felt material and stick onto a fridge!

Here are a handle of links for making a variety of felt boards, photos are courtesy of each blog. Thank you wonderful bloggers:)

Adventures with Mimi
 This one is awesome.

   Placing felt into a frame

Three Sneaky Bugs

                                                                                 Smile and Wave

squidoo.com       (with pizza box)

celebratingtoday (with magnetic board)

the greenwife      (with foam paper)

                                                            maya*made
My favorite! If only I could be this amazing.


Further reading: Basic Instructions for Making Felt Stories

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Felt Glove Puppets



Finger puppets are a great way to interact with young children while singing or telling stories. For convenience, and to avoid losing the smaller felt pieces, I chose to glue the pieces onto the fingers of the glove, but there is the option of putting velcro on the back of each piece and then pulling off.

Old Macdonal Had a Farm is such a classic, I will not place the lyrics here, but....

Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree

Five little monkeys swinging in the tree
Teasing Mr. Crococile, "you can't catch me, no you can't catch me!"
Along came Mr. Crocodile as quiet as can be and...
SNAP!
(Place one finger into your palm if felt pieces are glued like this glove, or if removable then simply take the monkey off)

Four little monkeys swinging in tree...

Many like to finish this chant with the last monkey saying, "missed me, missed me, now you have to kiss me!"

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