Celebrating Valentine's Day with children is possible, you just have to transform the party a little bit and instead of dedicating it exclusively to celebrating the love of a couple, expand it to celebrate love in all its versions. You can organize different activities with the children to celebrate this day, such as crafts or cooking special sweets. If you need a little inspiration, here are some ideas to celebrate Valentine's Day with children y special recipes to cook with the little ones.
But in addition to celebrating this day with different activities, it can be a perfect occasion to dealing with the children about feelings. Since Valentine's Day is Valentine's Day, you can take the opportunity to explain issues such as what it means to love someone or how you can show the love you feel towards other people.
Discussing this issue with children can be difficult, as sometimes parents don't really know what words to use or how to make sure that the children do not misinterpret the concepts. For this, we are fortunate to have children's literature, specific books for children that help us explain the meaning of things. And all this, from the game and the fun.
Children's stories to read on Valentine's Day
You can invent your own stories to read with the little ones, you can even transform it into an afternoon of crafts and create a story with your own story. Thus, your children can be the protagonists of this story. It can be based on your love story with your partner or it can be a made up story, whichever you prefer.
If you do not know how to deal with this issue with the little ones, do not worry, below we will show you one list of ideal stories to read with children on Valentine's Day and work with them the feelings.
Guess how much I love you, by Sam McBratney and illustrated by Anita Jeram (Editorial Kókinos)
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This is one of the classics that cannot be missed in the children's library. In this story, emotions as important as:
- The self-esteem
- Recognize emotions and know how to externalize them
- Learn to handle negative emotions such as fear, shame, or ridicule
- Express feelings
Book summary:
Sometimes when we love someone very, very much, we try to find a way to describe the size of our feelings. But as this wonderful story shows us, love is not an easy thing to measure.
Guess how much I love you, it is edited in different formats in addition to the traditional hardcover print, with fold-outs, in a case that includes a stuffed animal, perfect for making a gift.
I love you, by Bénédicte Carboneill (Editorial Jaguar)
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If there are two words that are repeated daily in all corners of the world, they are the words I love you. But those two simple words hide many different meanings. Each person interprets them in a different way, because there are different types of love. All this leads Rosa, the little protagonist of this story, to ask herself a few questions.
- How much do you love a dad?
- And a mom?
- Do you love your grandmother and your teddy bear the same?
- What does my friend Hugo mean when he says that he loves me more than anyone else?
What color is a kiss? by Rocío Bonilla (Editorial Algar)
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Monica is a very creative little girl, she likes to ride a bicycle, cakes with strawberry filling, stories, but above all, she loves to paint. He has already painted all kinds of things and knows very well what colors to use for each thing. But one day, he realizes that he has never painted a kiss and that is because he has the great doubt of not knowing what color the kisses are.
This story is perfect for work on the sense of emotions with children, that through colors, they will learn to associate different moods. Ideal for working on creativity, feelings, emotional intelligence and the different emotions that a kiss transmits.