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3-5-01Valentine Candy Picture Frame I cut out a heart from a heavy piece of cardboard. Inside that heart I cut out another heart. I gave each of the toddlers a heart to paint with red tempra paint. When the heart dried we took candy valentine hearts (the bigger ones with the sayings on them) and glued them around the heart. We than taped a current picture of them to the back of the heart so it showed through the center and used a pipe cleaner as a hanger to hang their picture frame in the class room.
2-22-01Allow toddlers to apply Valentine's Day stickers to brown paper lunch bags. They can color them and glue on paper hearts, etc. The bags can serve as gift bags or for keeping their Valentine crafts and treats in.
2-22-01For Valentine's Day, heart shapes (precut by you or with help from parents) can be used to make a variety of fun crafts. Heart flowers, using the heart shapes as petals, heart caterpillars, using them as body segments, and heart wreaths are favorites. A large heart shape can also serve as a body onto which a face can be drawn or collaged, with arms and legs attached sprouting out of the heart shape. Two large heart shapes can also be glued together around the edges and stuffed with tissue paper to make a puffy heart to decorate.
2-22-01Cut out hearts using a folded piece of construction paper. Apply glue in a XO pattern indicating hugs and kisses. Allow one year olds to tear colorful tissue paper and stick to glue. Give to parents as Valentines.
2-22-01For Valentine's day, you take handprints of the children on one heart and then put four smaller hearts below it with the words, faith, hope, love, and peace on it. It turned out to be a great mobile for the kids to take home for their parents.
2-12-01With clear or white contact paper cut out a heart shape. Tape it to the table sticky side up. Give the children red things ( ribbon, paper, glitter, sequins etc.) to put on the shape. When the children are done put their heart on a white piece of paper. The children learn the shape heart, the color red and enrich their language if the teacher talks about the things the children put on their hearts.
2-12-01Prep ahead of time: different colored and sizes of paper heart shapes, heart confetti, heart doileys, tissue paper bits in valentine colors, and clear contact paper. Each child has a piece of clear contact paper taped to the table, sticky side up. Have the child choose what ever he wants from the above materials and put them on the sticky paper. Once the child is finished creating his collage then cover the collage with another piece of contact paper and now you have a pretty valentine collage. A Heart collage designed by your toddler or preschooler.
2-12-01Toddlers can paint with good supervision. Being a day care provider, out of paper, I got creative. I cut hearts out of wax paper. I then let the children finger paint with red paint. When the hearts dried, they turned into beautiful sun catchers and the parents were thrilled.
2-12-01I had each of my infant/toddlers place their hands into tempera paint and than put them onto a postcard. When they dried we stamped and addressed them and sent them to the parents as a Special Valentine! The parents loved getting their child's hand prints in the mail!
2-12-01I did this with my 2's class for Valentine's Day. Cut out the center of a Styrofoam dinner plate. That will leave you with the Styrofoam rim. Then cut out heart shapes from old wall paper books. Have the children glue the hearts around the rim of the plate and add a pipe cleaner loop on top. You have a Valentine wreath with all different patterns.
2-12-01For Valentines day have toddlers put small pieces of tissue paper, any colors, on a heart and either spay water on with a water bottle, use a medicine dropper, or paint water on with a brush. The colors run onto the heart and make a beautiful rainbow of colors- tie-dye!
2-9-01For Valentine cards ask children to bring in photographs of themselves. Cut hearts out of paper and ask children to color/paint them. Stick photo on front of a red sheet of card in center and glue hearts around it. Add a touch of glitter and the cards are finished.
2-9-01While my older children were making Valentine's Day place Mats, I helped my 14 mo old look through old magazines. He responded well to dog, baby, apples. I cut out the pictures that he responded well to. Using hand over hand, we glued to construction paper. We also used stickers. I laminated the paper. He now has a placemat that will help him with his verbal skills.
2-9-01Give the child a precut heart from red construction paper. Have 1 sq. in. pieces of pink and/or white tissue paper or streamers ready on a tray. Show the child how to roll these little papers up. Younger children can "roll" them with their palms and older ones can actually use their fingers. After all the pieces have been rolled, glue around the edges of the heart for a beautiful Valentine!
2-9-01Mix soap flakes with little bit of water until a pasty consistency is achieved. Fill cookie cutters with the mixture. You can use hearts for Valentines, flowers for Mother's Day, etc. Allow to dry for several days and then wrap in colored cellophane. The kids love the actual process of making soap and mommies love the present!
2-9-01Cut a potato in half. Cut a shape of a heart on one half and an arrow on the other. Stamp the heart with Pink paint and let the child press on to paper. Then dip the arrow in red and stamp on the hearts after they have dried. If you do this on white butcher block paper, you can use the art to wrap Valentine's present for the child's family.
2-9-01Valentine's Day Craft Stained Glass Hearts Cut out big heart shapes on white paper. Cut out little squares of colored tissue paper. Give each child a tiny bit of white vinegar & a Q-tip. Place the tissue paper on the hearts then paint with vinegar. When the vinegar dies the tissue paper will fall off, throw away & look at the wonderful art.
2-9-01Have the toddlers take several heart shaped doilies and place them on a piece of white paper. Then drop red and white finger-paint on top of the doilies (not to much). Now the toddlers finger-paint over the doilies. Once they are done, lift up the doilies and you have pretty heart patterns left on the paper. I usually talk to the toddlers about the colors red, white, and that they make pink together. We also go over the heart as a shape. They love it !! I have done this with 1, 2, and 3 year olds.
ideaDraw giant hearts on red construction paper. Then have the children glue candy hearts all over the heart, to make a Valentine for their special someone (their parents/guardians).
Date: 2-9-01Valentine Dough 1 part flour,1-part water,2-parts oatmeal. Mix and shape. We used cookie cutters with hearts and let them dry and painted them using q-tips. You could also make a hole in the top before they are dry and put a string in them and hang them out on the trees as food for the birds.
2-9-01Ask each child to bring in an empty square tissue box. Cut off the top. Cut pink construction paper to cover the box, but let the children decorate the paper first........stamps, stickers, finger prints, etc. Then wrap the box with the decorated paper. Hole punch on both sides. Make a pipe cleaner handle through the holes. I like to add a doily to the front that says "Name's Valentines."
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