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Valentine’s Day is a day filled with the color red, candy, and lots of hearts! Preschoolers feel loved when their parents spend time with them. Here are some ways to accomplish that this month.
Make a Craft
Create a heart-shaped stamp by shaping the end of a cardboard toilet paper or paper towel roll into a heart. This is a list of 10 ideas for using the stamp.
Make a Snack
Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut bread, Rice Krispy treats, or other foods into heart shapes. Decorate heart-shaped cookies. Work on fine motor skills by making a strawberry fruit kabob.
Do a Literacy Activity
Cornelia Augusta realizes that hearts are perfect for making valentines in the book The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond. She carefully inspects each one and chooses just the right heart for each of her friends to create Valentine’s Day cards. After reading the story, parents and preschoolers can practice sight words together.
Materials Needed: 20 paper hearts, a marker, 5 envelopes, tape, and a basket
- Pick 5 sight words that the child needs to practice. On each paper heart, write a sight word. Each word will be used four times. (The child could also help write the words.)
- On the back of each envelope, write one of the same sight words.
- Tape each envelope to a door in the house. (The back side of the envelope with the sight word should face out, so the child can see it.)
- Scatter the hearts on the floor like it has just rained.
- Have the child collect the hearts into a basket and then deliver them to the correct envelope.
Do a Math Activity
Conversation hearts can be used to practice counting, sorting, or arranging based on different characteristics. They can also be used as a non-standard way to measure items around the house.
Preschoolers will have fun, learn something new, and feel loved after spending time with their parents doing these Valentine’s Day activities.
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