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Misc. Valentine
Contact_FullName: casey Contact_Email: jwarner@bellsouth.net Area: valentines activities Idea: Cut out different size hearts and color and add a different number to each one. Lay them on the floor and have the children toss bean bags on the hearts and call out the number it lands on. We have a bean bag that looks like a mouse. This really helps with number recognition. Contact_FullName: Ashley Contact_Email: gangstaashez@aol.com Area: valentines activities Idea: Have the kids write their name on a piece of paper and put all their names into a paper bag. Have one kid at a time pick out a name. and whatever name they get they have to say something nice about that person. Contact_FullName: Autumn Contact_Email: TheGrowingGarden@cox.net Area: valentines day-math Idea: Cut out and laminate a large heart. Cut in half with zig-zag scissors. On one side write # 1-5 and on the other side put dots 1-5. Have the children match the hearts. Contact_FullName: Dawn Contact_Email: dawnyrendy@hotmail.com Area: Valentine Activity Idea: With younger children or children working on fine motor skills this is a great activity. Mix candy hearts in a large bowl with dry rice, blindfold the child if appropriate, and have them reach into the bowl to find the candy hearts. You can give them a time in which to find them, and whoever finds the most is the winner, or give them a number of hearts to find to work on counting skills. Contact_FullName: Nancy Contact_Email: Area: Science Idea: Valentine for the Birds Let your slices of bread dry. Then use a hear shape cookie cutter to cut the dry bread. Brush on egg whites then sprinkle on birdseed. Tie a ribbon to hang your treat on the tree. A valentine for your feathered friends. Contact_FullName: Barbara Contact_Email: beem1@verizon.net Area: Valentines Day Games Idea: This game is played like Duck, Duck, Goose. Put a heart or a valentine card in a small basket with a handle. Have the children sit in a circle. The child who is "it" holds the basket and walks around the circle while the group sings this song: "A tisket, a tasket, I have a little basket. I made my friend a Valentine and on the way I dropped it. (At this point in the song, the child that is "it", drops the valentine in the lap of the child closest to him or her. As with duck, duck, goose, that child stands up and chases "it" around the circle and back to "it's" seat.) Meanwhile, the rest of the group continues the song as follows: I dropped it, I dropped it, on the way I dropped it. I made my friend a Valentine and on the way I dropped it. Continue play until everyone has turn being "it." Contact_FullName: Wren Contact_Email: Wren823@aol.com Area: Valentine Ideas Idea: We tie Valentine's Day in with our Community Helper's Month. Each child makes a Valentine postcard to be mailed to their parents. Then we take a field trip to the Post Office where we buy stamps and each child gets to mail his Valentine. Then we get our behind the scenes tour of the post office from the post master to see how their Valentine's will get from the post office to their houses. Contact_FullName: Megan Contact_Email: funky_biscut@yahoo.com Area: Valentines Day Idea: I work at a daycare and my 1 year olds can't really get involved in the bb. I took all their pictures and glued them different construction paper sweets (popsicle, bag of sugar, sucker, etc.) I glued each child's picture on the sweets. I also bought a bag of assort. candy and went to the gas station and got small bags of sugar and hot glued them onto the board. It was Titled "We're sweet as..." It is very cute and different! Contact_FullName: Valerie Contact_Email: farmorganic@yahoo.com Area: Valentine's Day-Activity Idea: "Match the hearts" For every two children in my story time group, I cut a large heart from a variety of colors of construction paper. I then cut each in half, using different cuts(ie. wavy, jagged, squared off angles, etc) I mix these up, have each child choose one and then walk around and find who has the other half of their heart. Contact_FullName: Tammy Contact_Email: steelehere@attbi.com Area: Valentine's Day-Art Idea: How about mailing those special valentine's to parents, grandparents etc. Send pre-addressed, stamped cards in a large envelope along with a note requesting a decorative postmark to Postmaster, Valentines, TX 79854 or another town with names like Loveland, Colorado, or Valentines, Virginia. They will postmark mark them and forward them to the addressed recipients. Contact_FullName: Barbara Contact_Email: del@casagrande.com Area: Valentine's Day Idea: Have child roll a die(dice). Then have them count out that many conversation hearts. They eat one & share the rest with friends. We did this at circle time & it sure held their attention. You could adapt this to many areas. Contact_FullName: Sheri Contact_Email: sherib78@hotmail.com Area: Valentines-Miscellaneous Idea: How many kisses can you hold in your hand? I have a bowl with a bag of Hershey's kisses emptied into it and each child estimates how many they can hold in one hand. Then they reach into the bowl and actually grab a handful. Then we count how many they could really hold. The estimates get better as we go around the circle. Then we finish by drawing around and cutting out our hand and stamping the number of kisses we could actually hold. (I bought stamps that look like lips kissing at Michaels craft stores.) 3-12-01I put Valentine candy hearts into our sensory table. The kids loved not only pouring, scooping, sorting and measuring, they loved identifying the letters and words on the hearts.
2-8-01Play a counting and sorting game with conversation heart candies. Try sequencing by making patterns of colors. Divide the candies by telling children , in turn, to take one pink candy, or two purple candies, etc.
2-8-01For Valentines Day I get the children to make their own Valentines Day cards to give to anyone they want. The children can make them for their parents, relatives, siblings, or other friends in the class and sometimes they make them for me. I trace a big red heart on a piece of red paper and the children cut it out or sometimes if they are having trouble especially with the younger ones I help them cut. Then they tell you what they want it to say. Then you copy it down for them and they copy it onto the heart. With the school age they can write most of it themselves but you can help with it if needed. Then they can decorate it any way they want to. They can color, cut and paste, glitter, draw, stickers or anything else they can think of. Then it is done.
1-13-01Valentine Theme: Make a pattern of a chocolate kiss candy and wrap w/ tinfoil. Make enough for every child. Take white tissue paper and write the child's name on it and glue on the kiss. You or the children can cut out small hearts of pink, white and/or red to put around the kisses. Title: ________(Teacher's name) Favorite Sweets.
1-13-01Silhouette You will need: White construction paper, Red construction paper, glue, scissors, markers, pencil, masking tape, smooth wall, and a light source (lamp, overhead projector, etc.) Directions: 1. Use masking tape to affix White construction paper onto a smooth wall. 2. Turn on light source. 3. Place child in front of white construction paper facing sideways so that their profile creates a shadow that will fit onto white construction paper. Depending on the size of the child's profile you might have to move the light source closer or further back to make it fit on to the white construction paper. 4. Once established, trace the child's profile with a a pencil. 5. Re-trace in black marker. Remove from wall. 6. Cut out white construction paper profile with scissors. 7. Glue profile onto Red construction paper and write the child's name, age, and date on it. And there you have a personal silhouette of your child! Note: You can have your child stand or sit (be sure to provide a chair) inside a large box or a ward robe box while posing for their profile. You can use this for anytime of the year too. Traditionally, silhouettes are traced on Black Construction paper (with white chalk) with a White Construction paper background.
5-29-00Every Valentine's Day my three year old class has a Friendship Tea Party. We dress up like our parents and send out formal invitations to our families. This teaches the children that Valentine's Day is a special day that we spend with our friends doing special things. I will not lie, this is a BIG project! The parents bring the refreshments and the room will be crowded BUT it is something the children will remember. W also sing a special friendship song to set it all off!! You can check our pictures at www.bbca.org then click on "hot news"
Date: 2-29-00This year, for Valentine's Day, I turned my bulletin board into a candy shop. Any colors will do for the background and the boarder. On the bottom half of it, I made the outline of shelves with strips of inch-wide black paper, angling them for a 3-D effect. Then, I drew the top half of the body of my store clerk, Mr. (or Mrs. Agape. I put him up on the top half, so that it looked like he was standing behind the counter. Then I filled the shelves with hear-shaped jar pictures, photo-copied onto white paper and then cut out. Each student had a jar with his/her name on it. For the next few weeks, if the kids were caught in a random act of kindness/love, they were rewarded with a heart-shaped sticker to put on their jar. I wrote what they did on the heart so that they looked like those conversation heart candies. (Ex: shared) The caption on the board said "God's Love Fills Our Hearts." It was rewarding to see them become conscious of their actions towards others. Plus, they got to take their jars home to share with parents!
2-17-00On a large piece of poster board, draw a flying Cupid with his arrow. Or buy a cut out Cupid and glue it to the poster board. Cut out a small red heart. Stick a piece of tacky tack on the back of the heart. Each child takes a turn being blindfolded and pinning the heart on Cupid's arrow.
2-17-00On a large piece of poster board, draw five large hearts. In each heart write a number one through five(or 10,20,50...for older kids) Each child gets a turn tossing a beanbag to hit the highest number. Or can use more beanbags and the child has to add his score. This also works great in the summer with sidewalk chalk on the driveway.
Date: 2-9-00For a February math activity, my students graphed hearts by color. Each child received a small Ziploc bag with several paper hearts of various colors (red, pink, purple). Each child had to sort his/her hearts, count the number of each color, and record this info. on a simple graph I had prepared ahead of time. I use a basic square grid, and add the heading, pictures, numbers, etc. as I need them for whatever season or theme I'm using. This activity could be repeated with heart sizes (small, medium, large) or other criteria. Adjust it to suit your students' needs and the skills you'd like to target. Also, if you use learning centers in your classroom, you could leave lots of blank graphs, a variety of items to count and record, and markers for a simple center.
Date: 2-6-00I found this Date: idea in Family Fun magazine. This is a great Valentine present for your kids. Empty a small box of conversation hearts. Make sure you get the boxes that have the heart shaped cut out with cellophane over it. Take individual pictures of your class using a white background with red hearts hung all around. Cut the front of the box off to separate from the rest of the box. Cut the child's picture out so that it will fit into the heart shape cutout in the box. Laminate and put a magnet on the back. The front of the box makes a precious picture frame.
Date: 2-6-00To help kids learn their capital and small letters, here is a fun idea. I cut out small hearts of variety colors and write on the letters on each one. Then, I contact paper for future use. One way to play this game is to place all the small letter hearts into a container. Divide the big letter hearts among the children (or play in teams). A heart will be pulled from the container and the child will say if the letter matches it mates.
Date: 2-6-00I had my health/nutrition and Valentine's themes mixed into one great bulletin board. I gave out to each child a big heart cut-out and an index card. Their homework was to put on the heart things that made them happy. (pictures of family, foods they liked, etc.) In the index card the parents were to write their recipe and ingredients for a Happy Heart. I then put in the middle of my Bulletin Board a giant heart with the words: The beginning of wellness is a Happy Heart. I then put everyone's heart cut outs and recipes all around this heart. The results were not only great but emotional, I even cried when I saw one of the recipes: "A little of God's love, Hugs and Kisses from Mom , mix it in with a great teacher and friends and you'll have a happy heart" Most of them were very original and emotional. Great way to start a theme on Wellness!
Date: 1-31-00My Valentine Buddy I teach Head Start and an after school care program for 5-8 yr. olds. They love this activity. Cut out one large red heart and a purple one of the same size. Connect them point to point. Red on top as the head and purple on bottom as the body. Cut out 2 small pink hearts and glue on the red large heart as eyes. Then a purple heart of the same size for the nose. Cut out a wide pink heart for the lips and glue it on as well (it is fun to see the way the children fix the faces). Then cut 4 strips of black paper and fold them in a fan fashion. Glue these on as arms and legs. Cut red hearts out to go on the tip of the arms and legs for hands and feet.
Date: 1-31-00Have each child dictate his/her favorite recipe and copy in the exact words used. Include ingredients used, steps to make it, temperature to cook it on, how long, etc. Then have each child illustrate how to make the food and what the finished product looks like. Reproduce enough for each child in the class and make a cover with "Recipes From Our Hearts" written around a heart. Have each child sign his/her name on the heart and also on the recipe. This make a great Valentine or Mother's Day gift.
Date: 1-31-00Books for Valentine Themes: Valentine Mice by Bethany Roberts My Love For You by Susan L. Roth Bunny My Honey by Anita Jeram Love You Forever by Robert Munsch If You Love A Bear by Piers Harper Froggy's First Kiss by Jonathan London I Love You, Little One by Nancy Tafuri Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse These books are available through Scholastic book club or check your local library.
Date: 1-24-00Don't "Hog" All the Hugs, There Are Plenty For Everyone! Have your children paint both a large and small paper plate pink. After the plates are dry, glue the plates together with a little bit overlapping. Give the children 1/4 piece of pink paper and 1/2 piece black paper. Tell them to cut 2 triangles and a circle out of the pink paper. This will be the ears and the nose of the pigs. Have them fold their black paper in half and then half again and cut a "W" shape. When they have cut that they will have four pig feet. Then have them cut two small black circles for the nose. Glue on wiggly eyes and draw a mouth. Give them 1/2 of a pink pipe cleaner and show them how to curl it around a pencil. Tape it on as the tail. Have your children make heart valentines to place around the pigs for a really cute Valentine bulletin board!
Date: 1-24-00Heartful Helpers, (good parent/child project). I sent a letter home asking my children to have a heart and be helpers. I gave each of my children 10 cut-out hearts to take home. Each time they helped out around the house, with chores, with pets, or siblings, they got to bring a heart back to school. They had to write their accomplishment on the heart. Then at school, I will display their hearts on the wall to create a huge heart. At the end of the month, if they were hearty helpers, I told them we would have a heartfelt party.
Date: 1-24-00Conversation Heart Bingo For my Pre-K class, I cut out large heart shapes from pastel paper and write messages on each one just like the candy conversation hearts. Then we play Bingo (I use a set of alphabet cards for letter recognition). Use conversation heart candy as markers. The children love to eat them after they "Bingo"!
Date: 12-21-00Color Hearts Game (Play like CandyLand) Using a folder, draw a "path" from "Home" to "Loveville". Divide the path into blocks. Cut small hearts of different colors and glue into blocks. Cut tag board into three inch squares. Glue hearts of the same colors used on game board. Use message candy hearts as "men". Place heart squares face down in a pile. Players take turns turning over cards. They must name the color then move man to nearest heart of marching color. First to get to "Loveville" wins. All get to eat hearts. For two players.
Date: 1-17-00Love Luncheon Instead of doing a Valentine party with cards and candy, I do a love luncheon that emphasizes love. We invite parents or special guests to come to school for about 40 minutes. During this time, the children serve the guests, sing songs, and we read some stories about love and families. The meal we serve is salad that the kids put together, pizza that the kids put toppings on, red punch, and heart shaped sugar cookies the kids decorated. Date: 1-13-00Valentine Day - Remove set of hearts from a deck of cards. Cut in half and have children match the cards together. Date: 1-9-00Size Discrimination: Large or Small? Without looking, have children take turns reaching into a box that has both a large and small heart shaped pillow in it. They are to "feel" the hearts as much as they wish to compare them and thereby determine which is the small and which is the larger heart. To lessen the difficulty, you can demonstrate the activity yourself by letting them see the hearts then allowing them to observe your hands in the box as you compare the hearts through "touch." This is also a great game to keep in the Quiet Corner or some other part of the classroom for children to do during Free Choice Play. Variation: Without looking, let children compare two textures of heart shaped cutouts by "feeling" them. For example, you could glue cellophane to one cardboard heart and sandpaper to another for rough versus smooth. Another option would be to compare soft and hard. Date: 1-9-00Nursing home for Valentine's Day Our preschoolers will be visiting a nursing home for Valentine's Day. The children have been bringing stuffed animals from home (ones that can be parted with) and we will be writing stories that the children dictate to us about their animal. We will take our animals, along with the stories (most of how much this stuffed animal was loved) with us on our visit. There we can leave something soft and warm and filled with love for our "special Grandmas and Grandpas". We will also be doing a fingerplay or two! Date: 1-9-00Counting/number matching game I use an old Valentine candy box to create a counting/number matching game in our math center. In each compartment of the box, I glue a number. Then I have laminated heart shapes with corresponding number or dots to place in the matching compartment. Date: 1-9-00Date: 1-9-00Date: 1-9-00Date: 1-9-00Date: 4-18-99This craft makes a great gift for teachers or parents. Items needed: "red" potporri, large heart shaped cookie cutter, white school glue, wax paper & large bowl. Mix potporri and glue together in bowl. Make sure it is covered well with glue.(The glue dries clear.) Fill in cookie cutter with Potporri and glue mixture on wax paper. Lift off cookie cutter and glue pretty ribbon on top to make a hanger. When dry you have a beautiful scented heart. It really is super easy!! Date: 4-18-99During the month of February, we begin studying fractions. We learn about equal parts, a whole, and a half. One thing we do is a two-colored heart. The children trace a large heart shaped pattern and cut it out. They then choose two differents colors of construction paper. They fill one half of the heart with torn bits of one color and the other half with torn bits from the second color. Then we glue the heart onto a piece of manila paper and label. example- 1/2 red 1/2 pink Date: 4-18-99Valentine Game, similar to Doggie, Doggie, Where is your Bone? One child sits in a chair facing away from the rest of the group with his/her eyes closed. Teacher hands a decorated heart to a child in the group who then places in under the chair as quiet as can be and returns to his/her place in the group. Child in chair opens his/her eyes and turns around to face group. Teacher says "Can you guess who was so kind to leave you this pretty Valentine? Child then has 3 guesses. ( We request that they ask their guesses using their classmates names to reinforce classmate name recognition.) Date: 4-18-99This is a Valentine Math idea. Buy each child in your class a small package of valentine conversation hearts. First, have the students shake and guess how many hearts are in their box. Next, have them open and compare the actual number to their guess. Then, have them do the following activities with their hearts: sort by color, sort by message, sort by number of words in the message, graph color vs. number, message vs. number, etc., compare number of candies in each box among students identify the color/message with the most/least, complete math problems (i.e. purple + orange, etc.), identify favorite color and message, identify flavor of candies by tasting at the end! Yum! I am a special educator and have done this activity with my middle school aged kids with moderate - intensive challenges for the past few years. Not only is it a good math activity, but it helps children work on fine motor skills, communication skills and problem solving skills as well! Date: 4-18-99For A Valentine's science idea I bought some white carnations and mixed up a lot of red food coloring and water. Then you cut the stem to fit in your vase and then cut a vertical X in the base of the stem and place the flowers in the red water. The next day it will already be turning a light red color and will keep changing. On the day of our Valentine's party we put the flowes on our lunch tables. The children were very excited to see that the flowers had changed colors!!! Date: 4-18-99I had the opportunity to student teach in a pre-k and kindergarden class. I made them a game that even to this day they enjoy playing! I cut out ten heart about 3 inches wide and tall. I lamenated them to prevent them from tearing. I bought different kinds of sickers and put different pairs on the pack of the hearts. (One sticker per heart!) The kids had fun flipping the hearts over and trying to find the match. Date: 4-18-99Matching Valentines Cards...we always use left over store bought valentine cards for a matching game. My kids love to match up the cards. Just glue one set inside a folder and have the kids match up the other set of cards to the cards on the folder. Stickers work well too. Date: 4-18-99Valentine Cards This is an idea I read about, take an empty Valentine candy box, the ones with the candy hearts that have sayings on them and cut out the front of the box. Take a picture of your students. Place the picture behind the large see through heart from the box. It becomes a wonderful frame. Then glue the "framed picture" onto a piece of card stock and you have a wonderful card for parents or grandparents!!! Or you can make it into a picture frame for a Valentines present! Date: 4-18-99Vallenpillers I cut out hearts in red, pink, and white. I gave each child 2 of each color. I drew a line through the middle of a light purple piece of construction paper and had the children line the hearts in a row. Next, they glued on 2 eyes and then 2 black antennas made from black construction paper. What a cute Valentine's catterpiller they made! Date: 4-18-99Everyone has around the house those little cardboard jewelry boxes.Find one(or more) and cover the bottom and lid with pink or red paper. Then using white poster board, cut out 2 hearts of the same size...big enough to overlap the box. Glue one heart to the top and one to the bottom(so they are even). After it dries, decorate with colored contruction paper,doilies,beads, paints or whatever...even a picture! Then you just lift the lid and tuck in a surprise!! Makes a fast, easy gift for Valentine's Day! Date: 4-18-99For Valentines day I have the children make a Valentines Day wind sock. I take white tag board and cut it with a specialty scissors into 6" x 15" rectangles. The children glue precut hearts of various colors in any design/pattern they want to all over the rectangle. Next, I give the children 8 strips of tissue paper, 4 red and 4 pink cut 1 1/2" x 12". The children glue the tisue paper strips along the bottom edge of the white tagboard ( on the back side). I then staple the tagboard into a tube for the children and punch a hole on two sides of the tube at the top so the children can put a piece of red yarn through to hang their wwind socks. Depending on the ability of my class, I sometimes have the children glue a colored paper heart at the bottom of the tissue paper strip and then have them write a letter on each heart to spell out "I love you" Date: 4-18-99VALENTINE PRETZEL GIFTS I've used this with my 2-5 year olds and they all loved it. We gave them to parents as gifts. Melt white confectioners candy in the microwave. Add red food coloring a couple drops at a time until you find the shade you like. Let the candy cool slightly but still remain melted. Cover the table with waxed paper. Divide the candy into enough bowls for two children to share one bowl. Dip the pretzels and place on the waxed paper. (The candy can be remelted over and over until it's all used). Divide and wrap in cellophane bundles. Tie with red ribbon. Date: 4-18-99For a valentine gift to our student's family, we took wooden hearts about 3 inches across. We let the children decorate them any way they wanted with glitter glue sticks. We then let them dry overnight and the next day added magnets to the back. The children were so proud of their work. Date: 4-18-99A cute idea to show your staff how much they are appreciated! Decorate a paper bag and fill with the below mentioned items!! Attach this note to the outside of the bag! A Valentine Survival Kit Just For You!! A chocolate kiss to remind you that you are loved! A match to light your fire when you feel burned out! A tootsie roll to remind you not to bite off more than you can chew! Smarties to help you on those days you don't feel so smart! A starburst to give you a burst of energy on those days you don't have any! A snickers to remind you to take time to laugh! A bag to help you keep it all together and to give you food for thought! And most importantly, a candle to remind you that you can brighten someone else's day! Date: 3-14-99Valentine's Buddy Cut one large heart from red or pink construction paper for the body. Trace the child's hands on another color and cut them out, paste them on the sides of the heart for the buddy's hands. Trace the children's feet on black construction paper, cut them out. Cut two strips of white construction paper for the legs about 1" wide and 12" long, accordion fold them. Attach one end of leg to the heart body and the other end to the foot, doing the same for both legs. Glue wiggle eyes and a pom pom nose, draw a mouth. For added decoration you can glue on small hearts. Date: 12-21-99Valentine necklace. I've actually bought cheap clear plastic table cloths. I then cut hearts out of them(about hand size). Then I put two together and hole punched them around the edges. After that, have kids sew them together with red, pink, or white yarn/string(you can get the sparkly red shoelace looking string, it looks really nice). Have them leave an opening at the top. Inside they can stuff a variety of things into the heart. We used shredded red and pink paper, conversation hearts, valentine candies, etc. Be creative! Then, finish sewing it up, and leave extra string to make a necklace. Kids love wearing these! And, you can have them make them for Valentine's Day for their party. You can even write their names on the front of the hearts! great project! Date: 1-19-99FOR VALENTINE'S DAY.....CUT OUT PAPER HEARTS AND GLUE THEM TO SMALL PAPER PLATES. STAPLE THE PLATES TOGETHER LEAVING AN OPENING TO PUT POPCORN OR DRY BEANS INSIDE, THEN STAPLE IT ALL UP AND HAVE THE KIDS SHAKE AWAY SINGING A VALENTINE SONG.CHILDREN LOVE TO DANCE AND MAKE NOISE. LOTS OF FUN!! Date: 1-19-99Use Valentine's Day as an opportunity to introduce some science: the heart and what it does/how it works. Have the children find their own hearts and practice feeling their own hearts beat. Let them count the beats if they can. Then explore how the heart works when we are sitting quietly or jumping around. Some words to introduce (depending on the ages/abilities of the children) are pulse, circulation, blood vessels, etc. Make posters of the children by having them lie on butcher paper and tracing their outlines. Then let them draw and color their own hearts on their outlines. Post these around the room if possible. Have fun! Date: 1-3-99I make red hearts out of posterboard and then buy stickers and make a Bingo game out of them and then you show each sticker to the children and then children use candy for the markers. When everyone fills their cards they yell "Happy Valentine's" and then they get a prize and they get to eat their candy!! 2-11-98 Name: Terry E-Mail: daltontb@earthlink.net Our preschoolers will be visiting a nursing home for Valentine's Day. The children have been bringing stuffed animals from home (ones that can be parted with) and we will be writing stories that the children dictate to us about their animal. We will take our animals, along with the stories (most of how much this stuffed animal was loved) with us on our visit. There we can leave something soft and warm and filled with love for our "special Grandmas and Grandpas". We will also be doing a fingerplay or two! 2-11-98 Name: Vic E-Mail: neuch@hotmail.com Valentine's Day Limbo Wrap a pole in red paper. Place paper arrowhead at one end. Kids limbo to avoid this Cupids arrow. When they go out, they must say something nice about kid in front of them. I give stickers to them when they are out. 2-10-98 Name: Sue E-Mail: clew@texasonline.net To make delivering their own Valentine cards easier, I made copies of each child's photograph and glued to the front of their Valentine sack. Each child's name was also printed on the sack and some could match the printed name on their card. 2-9-98 Name: Tammy E-Mail: tclark@kusd.edu Incorporate the post office unit with Valentine's day unit: save junk mail from student's homes, staff, etc to be used by students at the post office center. Rubber stamps, recycled envelopes, a scale, pens, pencils, lick on stickers from clearing house mailings can be props for this center. 2-9-98 Name: Sue E-Mail: clew@texaasonline.net I use an old Valentine candy box to create a counting/number matching game in our math center. In each compartment of the box, I glue a number. Then I have laminated heart shapes with corresponding number or dots to place in the matching compartment. 1-27-98 Name: Sue E-Mail: clew@texasonline.net Valentines is a perfect time to write "love letters". I write the words "I Love You" on the board or a large piece of paper and put it so the children can see it while they write their "letters". I provide envelopes and stamps (usually Christmas seals or others I have saved.) They address their letter and take it to our pretend post office to be delivered by the "postman" to each child's cubby. 1-27-98 Name: Susannah E-Mail: SMSatASU@aol.com My sorority sisters and I used to do this for our sisterhood nights once a semester. It's called the "WEB OF LOVE". Take a ball of RED or PINK yarn and have the children sit in a circle. Give the ball to one child and loosely tie the end of the yarn around his/her wrist. The child begins by saying "I love________ because he/she________"(suggestions: shares her crayons with me, always plays with me, helps me clean up,etc). The speaker tosses the ball of yarn to the childhe/she named and that child takes a turn,etc, etc, until all children have had a turn to toss the yarn. Loop the yarn around each child's wrist as they take their turn. We were not supposed to say someone's name who already was tangled in the web until EVERYONE had had a turn, then we kept going until the yarn ran out. It was fun to see how long it took us to untangle ourselves! Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol.com For Valentines day we use hearts that have been cut in half. On one side I write 4 + 1 =, on the other side the answer. Can be used for reading also.. ie.. "ca" on one side of heart and "r" on the other. Have fun. The sky is the limit with this activity. Editors note: This activity is appropriate with younger grade school children. Name: Daylene Valentine Card Puzzles Glue large Valentine cards onto tagboard. Laminate or cover the cards with clear contact paper. Cut each card into 4 to 8 pieces. Place each of the "puzzles" into a large ziplock bag and keep them in your manipulative area. Name: Daylene Heart Puzzles Cut several large hearts. Print a numeral on one side of each heart and stick a corresponding number of stickers on the other side of the heart. Cut the hearts in half as a puzzle. Have the children match the numerals to the number of stickers. Name: Daylene Heart Sorting Cut various sized hearts from pink, red, and white construction paper. The children can sort the hearts by colors or by size (small to large----- large to small). Name: Pat E-Mail: Pattypre@aol.com Smelling Candles Purchase pairs of scented heart shaped votive candles. Make the colors and scents of the pairs as contrasting as possible. Make a blind fold by covering the lense part of a childıs pair of sunglasses with felt. I have a different colored pair for each month. Trims and add-ons can enhance the blindfold. With the blindfold on, show the children how to try to find the matching pair of candles by smell alone. When the candles have been placed in pairs, take off the blindfold. The child can check their work because matching pairs of candles will be the same color. Hint - store the candle pairs in separate baggies so scents do not mix. Name: Daylene Heart Rhymes Cut out enough hearts for each child in your class. Glue a magazine picture on each heart. Place all the hearts in a large paper sack. Have each child take a turn to choose a heart from the bag. Let each child name words that rhyme with the picture on their heart. Name: Dawn E-Mail: scc.dawn@ttlc.net Valentine Land Game-Can be played to music. It goes like this: Pass the heart around Pass the heart around Pass the heart along Pass the heart around Pass the heart around As we sing this song. It is Valentine's It is Valentine's It is Valentine's Day It is Valentine's It is Valentine's And we pass the heart this way When the music stops When the music stops And the heart is in your hand When the music stops When the music stops Enter Valentine Land Repeat three verses two more times, faster each time. You can pass the heart behind your back, over your head, or under your legs. Ask the children for other passing ideas! This is from the MacMillan Sing & Learn series Heart Matching Game Materials: Red posterboard, different colors of construction paper, clear contact paper Cut a large heart out of the red posterboard. Divide the heart cut-out into 9 sections (like a tic-tac-toe board). Cut 9 hearts, each out of different colors of construction paper. Glue 9 of the hearts into the 9 sections of the posterboard heart. Cover with clear contact paper. Cut out more hearts to match on the posterboard heart. For durability, cover each of the hearts with clear contact paper. Have the children match the hearts. Valentine Box Toss Materials: A big heart shaped box (the kind candy comes in), playdough hearts that the children have made. Make your favorite playdough recipe. Have the children use cookie cutters to make heart shapes out of the playdough. Let the heart shapes dry completely. Spray the heart shapes with clear lacquer (this strengthens the shapes). Once the hearts are dry, place the candy box on a carpeted area in your classroom. Have the children toss the hearts into the candy box.
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