Love is a Circle

One of the best rewards for me as a preschool teacher is when I take a chance and launch into teaching the kids an idea, and I get the feedback that they get it. This concept, at least some of them got.

When you give away love, it comes back to you.  It is not a unidirectional motion.  It's a circle. It moves round and round, and sometimes when it comes back, it's bigger than it was when you gave it away.  Love grows.  If I give love to you, and you give love to your friend, and your friend gives love to another friend, eventually, I will get love back.

Here are 3 songs I used that make this concept easy to teach:

Love grows one by one

Two by two 

and four by four

Love grows round like a circle

and comes back knocking at your front door.

So let me take your hand, my friend.

We'll each take the hand of another.

One by one, we'll reach them all

Our sisters and our brothers.

Love is a circle, round and round.

Love is up.

Love is down.

Love is inside, trying to get out.

Love is whirling and twirling about.

Love is a circle, it knows no bounds

The more you give, the more comes around.

Love is our's alone to give.

It lives in us.

It's beautiful.

Love is something if you give it away,

give it away, give it away.

Love is something if you give it away,

you'll end up having more.

It's just like a magic penny:

hold it tight, and you won't have any

Lend it, spend it, and you'll have so many

They'll roll all over the floor!