Hugs Story Time: February 10-11, 2020

Books:

How Do You Hug a Porcupine by Laurie Isop *
Hug Machine by Scott Campbell *
Hug Me by Simona Ciraolo
Hugless Douglas by David Melling *
Hugs from Pearl by Paul Schmid
Sloppy Wants a Hug by Sean Julian
Wally Wants to Hug by Barbara Joosse

Craft: Paper Hug
This week's craft is based on the above picture.  Children were given a large cardstock heart and two small cardstock hearts to color.  They glued paper strips to the large heard for arms.  The little hearts were glued on the ends of the paper strips for hands.

Extension Activities:
- After reading Hugless Douglas, have a discussion about what makes hugs feel good (i.e. tight, soft, cuddly, etc.).
- Make several paper hugs to hand out to people.  Maybe visit a nursing home or older neighbors/friends who would enjoy a paper hug from a child.

The Five Senses Story Time: Touch - April 8-9, 2013

Books:
How Does It Feel? by Bobbie Kalman
Hugless Douglas by David Melling *
I Love to Cuddle by Carl Norac *
A Little Bit of Winter by Paul Stewart
Press Here by Herve Tullet *
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young *

 Craft: Bear Hug
This craft was revised from a Valentine card.  Children colored a bear head and arms cut from cardstock.  They then folded in the arms so the bear could give hugs.

Literacy Extenders:
- List as many things you can think of that are soft and cuddly like in I Love to Cuddle.
- Place an everyday object in a bag and let your child try to figure out what it is just by feeling it like in Seven Blind Mice.