Can you believe it? Valentine’s Day is around the corner and will be here before you know it. Now, as some of you know I refuse to buy any kind of card. I would rather save $3.00 and have my daughters make them.
I feel the same way about Valentine’s Day. I usually start about now by taking the girls to Michaels’ and letting them pick out some fun stuff to make for friends and family. It’s quite a project to tackle and now that both my girls are in preschool we have even more to make. This year I decided to take the easy way out with the classmates. We are using an idea I saw in Family Fun magazine. We bought some Teddy Grahams (buy one get one free at Publix) to put in Ziploc bags and then we will only have to make little name cards saying, “You are Beary Special.”
Here are a few other ideas to get you and your kids in the Valentine spirit.
Heart Wreath
- Cut out the middle of a paper plate and turn the plate over.
- Glue lots of different colored hearts to cover the outside of the plate.
- Use foam heart stickers, sequins, or buttons to decorate.
Marble Heart Painting
- Cut the shape of a heart out of white paper.
- Use a shallow box to put the heart in and add little blobs of paint. Then add about a dozen marbles. You can also use golf balls or toy race cars.
- Have your child move the box back and forth and side to side to “paint” the heart with the marbles. While the paint is still wet, sprinkle some glitter on it.
Here’s another post exclusively about marble painting.
Heart Name Puzzles
- Write your child’s name on a heart shaped cut out.
- Cut it into 3 or 4 pieces (only cut between the letters).
- Now they have a heart shaped puzzle to practice spelling their name.
Number Practice
- Using heart shapes, write a number on one side of the heart and put that number of heart stickers on the other side.
- I did this with the numbers 1- 10 for my preschool class.
- Cut the hearts down the middle and now you and your child have a fun number matching game.
