HUG by Jez Alborough is a new favorite children’s book for Valentines Day.
It has few words which lends to keeping the story very simple or expanding it for older children. You can talk about jungle animals, families, friendship, helping others, sadness, loneliness, and joy! It is the story of a little monkey noticing the love shared between other jungle babies and their parents.
As he continues his journey he becomes distraught and upset when he realizes that he is alone.
But rest assured the story has a happy ending.
After reading this story you can discuss Valentines Day and how this is special day to express your love and appreciation for family and friends.
For my younger children we made a Valentine by spreading Elmer’s liquid glue with a q-tip, then placed tissue paper squares on a heart.
Older children dictated an “I love you” message to family members, others drew pictures, and wrote their name.
We also completed sorting, graphing, and counting activities using candy conversation hearts and print-ables from Teaching Tiny Tots.com. These activities are wonderful.
Happy Valentines Day!
This activity has been linked to NurtureStore!
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Love your header photo! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am looking forward to exploring yours.
We have that book and my kids love it, of course by reading it the second time they better know how to read hug. BOBO always trips them, great craft too.
I think it’s lovely to involve children in Valentine’s Day. I like the colour sorting heart idea. Thanks for sharing with us at the Play Academy.
Ohhh thanks for the reminder about “HUG”! I will hunt this out from the bookcase and add it to my plannig for next week. I did wonder what story would be good for Valentines Day. We have so far used “Guess how much i love you!” another classic childrens book.
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This is super cute! Thank you for sharing today:)