Back To School Traditions and Projects

Back To School Traditions And Projects

Kissing Hand Cookies and the following Stories work for Parents

at home or for Teachers to use during the first few days of school.

Read my in-depth post about this amazing book

HERE

Then read this book with your children for Back To School!

We prepare our children with school supplies, new clothes,

lunch boxes, bike helmets, the works.

However, do we spend enough time preparing them to

treat others with kindness? Do we teach them to look for the new

faces or those who may be a little different and include them

at their lunch table or at recess? This is a great book to read with a

Young Women Group, also. The message is vital.

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

Do you have a child who is apprehensive about starting

school and/or leaving you. Are apprehensive about having your

children leave? If so, read this book with your children.

HERE is my in-depth review on this Book and Activity
Read

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

Then,

Make These Kissing Hand Cookies
Use any Sugar Cookie recipe, cut out in the shape

of hands (your own child's or a cookie cutter)

Top the cookie with a Hershey Kiss.

Make sure to pack these in your child's lunch

on the first day of school.

If you are a teacher, read this story and make these

cookies for a first day activity and snack!!!!!

Another version of Kissing Hand Cookies...

Cut out a small Heart Shape before baking.
Have you read either of these books?
Do you have any Back To School Traditions or Recommendations?

Back To School Story and Project

Summer Vacation Is Coming To A Close...

At Back To School time, The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, is a perfect story to prepare young children for being away from you while at school.

Chester the Racoon is apprehensive about leaving his mother for his first day of school. She assures him of her love and then kisses his hand. She tells him that when he misses her during the day to open up his hand and remember the kiss she placed there.

Katherine's Pre-school teacher Miss Margaret, shared this story on the first day of class.Since then, I have read this to my girls every Back To School Time. Whether your children are excited or apprehensive about the newness of school, this is a great book to enjoy together.

Below are samples of two Kissing Hand Cookies. These can be made at home in connection with this book (a great project to close the summer with) or, if you are a teacher, these could be the snack on the first day of school after you read this book to your class ( a perfect assignment for an eager new Room Mom--you have enough to do for the first day).

An alternative to cookies is to have each child make a painted hand print with a cut out heart glued to the palm of the hand. This is a wonderful first day of school keepsake.
My girls and I have a "Kissing Hand" signal we give each other when we say good bye at school. After we hug and say good bye, we point to our palms. Just another way we connect and remind each other of our love.