The Kissing Hand and Chester Raccoon First Day Activities

Activities, ideas, printables, and lesson plans for a unit on The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn.

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The Kissing Hand Activity for the First Week of School (PS-K)
Activities for the book The Kissing Hand to send home in a backpack or shoebox.

The Kissing Hand Activities and Teaching Ideas
First week activities including full color photos.

Chester Goes to School Printable Book
A printable “Chester Goes to School” book.

Lesson Plans, Printables, and Resources from Other Sites

First Day of Kindergarten~The Kissing Hand Lesson
Students listen to story, create a handprint craft, and practice retelling the story. teachers.net

The Kissing Hand
Activities for using The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn on the first day of school. kinderthemes.com

The Kissing Hand Unit
Ideas for shared reading and writing, songs and poems, making a hand necklace and raccoon puppet. Includes photos. mrsnelsonsclass.com

The Kissing Hand Unit
First day activities, bulletin board idea, math activities, pocket chart activities, poems, and more! thevirtualvine.com

The Kissing Hand Printables and Ideas
Lots of printables for The Kissing Hand or raccoons: magnet pages, BINGO marker pages, cut and paste, trace and color, literacy and math ideas, recipes, and more. makinglearningfun.com

Raccoon Printables Activities Based on The Kissing Hand
A collection of colorful printable pages including math mats, calendar, clothespin counting, games, and more. play2learnprintables.com

Printable Raccoon Heart Craft
Create a raccoon face out of hearts. first-school.ws

The Kissing Hand Game
Printable game. Children count the hearts and match the correct numbered pawprint to the raccoon/heart card. archjrc.com

The Kissing Hand Activities
Activities for math center, class books, songs & fingerplays, writing center, and large group. This site is no longer online, but still accessible by archive. web.archive.org

The Kissing Hand Activity
This activity involves parents sending an outline of their hand for use with The Kissing Hand. thekcrew.net

Related Resources

Heart in Hand Metal Cookie Cutter
4 inch metal cookie cutter perfect for The Kissing Hand.

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Hardcover edition of the book

Chester the Raccoon Stuffed Animal

The Kissing Hand BIG BOOK
When you click through, make sure it is the big book edition (15″ x 20.5″) with ISBN: 978-1-933718-07-1, Hardcover, before ordering.

Yes, you can now have this beloved book in the oversized big book edition! The beautiful illustrations really pop off the pages. It’s also a HARDCOVER so it will last for years.