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- Christmas
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Celebrations
Themes
- Advent Calendar
- ABC
- Letter of the Week
- All About Me
- Animals in Winter
- Apples
- Art, Artist Studio
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- Back to School
- Baker
- Bats
- Bears / Goldilocks
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- Butterfly / Caterpillar
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- Chicka Chicka Boom
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- Dr. Seuss
- Fairy Tales
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- Farm
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- Frogs and Pond
- Fruits / Vegetables
- Gingerbread Man
- Graduation
- Hands and Feet
- Hanukkah / Kwanzaa
- Health / Nutrition
- Mouse a Cookie
- Music / Instruments
- Nusery Rhymes
- Ocean
- Olympic Games
- Owls
- Penguins
- Pets
- Pizza
- Polar Bears
- Pre-writing Skills
- Pumpkins
- Rainforest
- Sand / Desert
- Scarecrow
- Shapes
- Snowmen
- Space
- Spiders
- Squirrels
- The Five Senses
- The Kissing Hand
- The Mitten
- The Three Little Pigs
- Transportation
- Travel, Train
- Weather
- Wild West
- Wind and Air
- Worms and Snails
- Zoo
Next New Theme
May 2013
A Visit to the Zoo
When Saving Time and Money Is Important and Quality Matters!
The Kissing Hands Crafts, Kissing Hands Preschool Activities, Kissing Hands Preschool Arts And Crafts
The Kissing Hand Preschool Activities! The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn tells the story of a young raccoon who is anxious about his first day of school until his mother tells him an empowering secret. This theme is based on the book and provides a wonderful start to a new school year as children adjust to leaving home and beginning new routines. It is recommended that parents and guardians read the book to their children prior to the start of the theme. A suggested parent letter is included.
Samples of our The Kissing Hands inspired activities, lessons, crafts, folder games, and printables available in our KidsSoup Resource Library:
Free Kissing Hands Crafts, and Raccoon Activities and Printables
Raccoon
Crafts, Activities
Raccoon
Printables
Raccoon
Folder Games
Raccon Headband
Craft
Hands and Hearts
ABC Folder Game
Emotions
Bingo Game
My Amazing Hands
Emergent Reader
Raccoon
Mask
Raccoon Felt Story
Songs and Rhymes
School
Word Wall
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Free The Helping Hands Preschool Activities, Crafts, and Printables
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The Kissing Hands, Hearts, and Hands Rhymes and Activities:
Kissing Hand Poem and Song
Kissing Hand Cookies
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My Hands
Original Author Unknown
My hands upon my head I'll place
Upon my shoulders, on my face,
At my waist, and by my side,
And then behind me they will hide.
Then I'll raise them way up high,
And let my fingers fly, fly, fly.
Then clap, clap, clap, and one, two, three.
Just see how quiet they can be.
This Special Heart
Original Author Unknown
This special heart I give to you
because you love me,
and I love you.
The heart is you;
the hand is me,
It shows we are a family.
The Cuddle Song
Original Author Unknown
It's so nice to have a cuddle,
with someone that you love,
It's so nice to have a snuggle,
with someone that you love.
If you ever are in trouble,
it will vanish like a bubble,
It's so nice to have a cuddle,
with someone that you love.
The Kissing Hand Activities
"I Love You" in Sign Language
Teach children how to make the hand sign for "I love you" in American Sign Language. Trace their hands on thick paper and help them cut them out. Show them how to shape the cut-out hands to make the "I love you" sign.
Handprint Hearts
Make one copy of a short poem about love and/or family for each child. Help each child make a handprint heart on paper by overlapping the fingers of their handprints. Then, have children cut out the poems and glue them above or below their handprint hearts. These can be gifts for parents and guardians.
