Poems/Fingerplays

• I Love Mommy (Tune: Frere Jacques/Are you sleeping?)
• Some Families
• Three in a Family

Songs

• "All one family" from Movin and Groovin with the Music Lady by Beverly Meyer
• "Love makes a family" or "Moon, my dad and me" from Blanket Full of Dreams by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
• Or take your pick from these Family themed cds: Celebration of Family, Daddy-O Daddy!: rare family songs of Woody Guthrie

Activities

• Craft: Create a Family Mobile. Have precut body shapes and let child help pick out hair colors and features to draw in for each member of family. Attach to one end of a piece of yarn, with the other end tied to a paperclip. Attach paperclips around the perimeter of a paper plate with a yarn loop for hanging in the center
• Food: Family Trees. Place broccoli stalks on each plate with a cherry tomato for each family member. Serve ranch dressing on the side

Books

Because I love you so much by Guido van Genechten

Did I tell you I love you today? by Deloris Jordan withRoslyn M. Jordan; illustrated by Shane W. Evans

Guess how much I love you by Sam McBratney; illustrated by Anita Jeram

I love Mommy by Lizi Boyd

I love you as much-- by Laura Krauss Melmed; illustrated by Henri Sorensen

I love you because you're you by Liza Baker; illustrated by David McPhail

I love you, little one by Nancy Tafuri

I love you so much by Carl Norac; illustrated by Claude K. Dubois

I'd know you anywhere by Hazel Hutchins; art by Ruth Ohi