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HEART BRACELETS
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Cut out 1” x 7” red paper strips. |
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Set out the paper strips along with some heart stickers. |
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Show your children how to make heart bracelets by attaching the two ends of a paper strip with a sticker. |
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Encourage your children to make one or more bracelets. |
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HEART BUTTERFLY PUPPETS
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Set out small 1” red paper heart shapes, some glue and brushes and some large craft sticks. |
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Show your children how to put some glue on one end of a craft stick. |
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Then, place two paper hearts on the glue with their points touching. |
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Let your children use the heart puppets while they sing heart or butterfly songs. |
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| HEART GARLANDS |
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Cut out 5” heart shapes from red paper. |
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Use a paper punch to make two holes at the top of each heart. |
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Invite your children to decorate the hearts with glitter-glue pens or markers. |
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When they have finished, thread the hearts on a long string and hang and them from one wall to another. |
HEART FISH
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You will need a large heart and a small heart cut from red or pink paper for each child. |
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Have children glue the large and the small heart together (crossing points). Small heart becoming the tail of the fish. |
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Turn the large heart side-ways and draw an eye in the top half of the fish. (The heart indent becomes the mouth of the fish) |
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Let children decorate the heart fish with markers or glitter-glue pens. |
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Hang up heart fish on a large blue mural. |
| HEART WALL HANGINGS |
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Fold a paper plate in half and cut the top half to resemble the top of a heart for each child. |
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Using a hole punch, punch holes along the edge of the bottom half of the paper plate. |
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Let your children decorate their heart plates. |
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Cut 1/8-inch ribbon into 24” lengths. |
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Give each child two lengths of ribbon. |
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Have children thread their heart plate on both sides with the ribbons. |
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Tie ribbons at the top to create a hanging heart. |
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Tie ribbons in the center at the bottom of the plate into a bow. |
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Hang the plates around your room. |
BANDAID VALENTINES
Your children will get a kick out of these silly valentines.
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Cut out medium sized red hearts for your children. |
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Write “I’m Stuck on You” on each heart. |
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Then set out some bandaids. |
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Have children stick a bandaid on each valentine. |
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OPPOSITE
VALENTINES
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Have your child look through
magazines and find opposite pictures, such as, a tall animal
and a short animal. |
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Have him tear or cut out the
pictures. |
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Then, give him a large red
valentine and have him glue on the two pictures. |
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Finally, help
him by writing on his Valentine-
"You are big, I am
small
But will you be my valentine!" |
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Make as many
opposite valentines as your child would like. |
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| CONFETTI
HEARTS |
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An easy and fun valentine for toddlers
or preschoolers to make is a confetti heart. |
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You will need a package of colored tissue
paper confetti. |
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Give your child a plain piece of white
paper. |
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Then give her a small paint brush and a
cup of water. |
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Have her cover her paper with water. |
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Then, have her sprinkle on some confetti |
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The confetti will gradually bleed onto the
paper and when it is dry, remove the confetti on top. |
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Finally, help your child cut out a large
heart from the dyed paper
VARIATION: You could
give your child some glue and let her just glue confetti onto
a paper heart. |
FLOWER VALENTINE COLLAGE
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Give your child a large construction paper heart. |
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Next, give him a bulb catalog or a magazine with pictures
of flowers |
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Have him cut or tear out some flower pictures. |
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Next, give him some glue in a bowl and a small brush
and have him cover his heart with glue. |
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Then have him cover his heart with flower pictures.
VARIATION: Let your child glue other collage
materials onto his heart, such as buttons, lace, poms,
rice, etc. |
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