Make Love You Loops
Love You Loops are interlocking paper loops that can be made for children to help them understand the number of days a parent or loved one will be traveling away from home. This fun activity can help ease your children’s feelings about being away from you.
Your family can make Love You Loops together, or a parent or caregiver can make them on their own and include a daily surprise message inside each loop.
On the day you are leaving, explain to or remind your children how to use the Love You Loops. It works best for young children and the person who will be caring for them while you’re away if they open the loops at approximately the same time every day. That might be at breakfast, dinner or bedtime.
Materials
Directions
Adults should cut strips of paper for the loops. Cut one strip for each day that you will be away.
If you want to leave a surprise message in each loop, write or draw your message inside each loop before you link the loops. If you are doing this activity with your children, they could color or draw on each strip.
Tape or glue the two ends of the first strip together to make a circle.
Put another strip through the circle you made, and tape or glue its two ends together.
Continue looping until you’ve made a loop for each day that you will be away.
This activity is suggested when the adult’s time away from home will be relatively short. If a parent or caregiver needs to be away from home for an extended period of time, you may want to consider a different activity to help the child manage feelings that can arise due to a longer separation from a loved one.
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