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Activities for Younger Children
Feelings Collage |
Materials: Old magazines, heavy paper, glue, scissors, pens First look through magazines with your child and identify together how people in the photographs are feeling. Then help your child cut the pictures out and glue them on heavy paper. Help your child label the feeling under each photo. Then talk about a time you experienced one of the feelings shown. |
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Feelings Collage
Materials: Old magazines, heavy paper, glue, scissors, pens First look through magazines with your child and identify together how people in the photographs are feeling. Then help your child cut the pictures out and glue them on heavy paper. Help your child label the feeling under each photo. Then talk about a time you experienced one of the feelings shown. |
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Picture Books |
Dora's Box
By Ann-Jeanette Campbell, Fabian Negrin (Illustrator)
Knopf; hardcover, 32 pages
Based on the Greek legend of Pandora's Box, this story is about a young girl, Dora, who learns the compassion that accompanies knowledge of both good and evil.
on Amazon.com
A Cure for the Meanies (Pictureback/Crayon Box)
By Tom Dunsmuir, David Silva (Illustrator)
Random House; paperback, 24 pages
When Meanie the Witch has to make an emergency landing in Balloony Town, she intends to spread meanness and misery wherever she goes, but is unable to penetrate the love and generosity of the people there.
on Amazon.com
The Sleeping Rose
By Angela Elwell Hunt, Chuck Gillies (Illustrator)
Thomas Nelson; hardcover, 32 pages
A farmer grows the "perfect rose" and dreams of becoming a royal master gardener. Along the path to his dreams, however, he encounters a beggar who helps him realize what is truly important in life.
on Amazon.com
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Videotapes |
Bear in the Big Blue House, Vol. 4: I Need a Little Help Today
Distributor: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
What do you do for a friend who has the sniffles? Bear's friends respect his need for some quiet time--and also try to help him feel better. 50 minutes. (Jim Henson Home Entertainment)
on Amazon.com
Maisy's Friends
Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video
When Charlie the crocodile eats too many cupcakes and gets a tummy ache, Maisy the mouse knows just how he feels and just what to do to help him feel better. Music and animated stories celebrate simple pleasures and rich friendships. 38 minutes. Book available.
on Amazon.com
Thomas the Tank Engine: Thomas Gets Bumped & Other Stories
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Seven stories centered around jealousy and insecurity--issues preschoolers grapple with almost every day. The deft messages here are never simplistic and the solutions ring true. The narrator is George Carlin. 37 minutes.
on Tower.com
Audiotapes
The Evergreens: Gentle Tales of Nature
Odds Bodkin opens this lovely, peaceful story tape appropriate for children four and up with a story of an empathic evergreen tree who takes pity on a freezing bird.
on Chinaberry.com.
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