~ Ideas for Valentines Day ~
Books
Activities
Queen of Hearts Nursery Rhyme
The queen of hearts,
She made some tarts
All on a summer's day.
The knave of hearts,
He stole those tarts
And took them clean away.
Valentine Mailbag
[Art]
The simplest Valentine holder is a white lunch bag. Children decorated their bag with heart doilies, Valentine stickers, paper hearts, and crayons.
Tissue Hearts
[Art]
I traced a heart onto white paper with a black Sharpie. Children put red and pink tissue paper squares on the heart by painting over the pieces with
liquid starch. When they were dry, the children cut out the heart.
Lovebug Valentine Cards
[Art]
The body of the bug is made with two red circles glued together. The wings are made with one pink circle cut down the middle and attached with a
metal paper fastener. The children drew a face on the bug and added heart shaped paper punches on the wings. They wrote "I love you" under the wings.
This was a gift to their parents.
Valentines Class Book
[Literacy]
Children dictated the rest of the sentence: "I love ___" and drew a picture to illustrate.
Valentine Candy Count
[Math]
These mats were made by gluing hearts to red paper. I used pastel colored copy paper, cut in a die cut machine for the hearts. The pastel colors match the
colors of candy conversation hearts. Children sorted a bag of candy hearts by color. After they sorted, the children counted the hearts of each color.
Valentine Mice Sandwiches
[Cooking]
This is a good activity after reading the book, Valentine Mice. Each child has a piece of bread, cup of strawberry jam, chocolate chip,
licorice string, and spreader. Children cut the bread into a heart shape with a cookie cutter, then spread on the strawberry jam. Fold the bread
in half to make the mouse, then add a chocolate chip eye and a licorice string tail. You can also use strawberry cream cheese in place of the jam.
A metal cookie cutter with grip worked well. The licorice strings are sometimes difficult to find, but Cracker Barrell always has them.
Queen of Hearts Tarts
[Cooking]
Children made their own tarts by mixing two spoonfuls of cream cheese with two spoonfuls of strawberry preserves in a cup. They spread the mixture
onto vanilla wafers, and added red hots.
Red Rose Play Dough
[Fine Motor Skills]
3 cups flour
3/4 cup salt
3 tablespoons cream of tartar
1/8 cup powdered red tempera paint
1/8 cup red glitter
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cooking oil
10 drops rose-scented potpourri oil
Mix the dry ingredients together in a large, heavy pot. Stir in the water, oil and potpourri scent until the mixture is smooth. Continue to stir the
mixture over medium heat until it forms a ball. Put the dough onto a floured board, and knead it until it is cool.
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