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Four Fun Ways to Celebrate Valentine's Day

Shelby Moore

January 31, 2012

Here are four fun ideas my Kindergarten students and I enjoy doing in February to celebrate Valentine’s Day.  I encourage you to try them at home with your kids.

I Love You From My Head Down to My Toes

Have your child trace around their foot on a piece of paper and cut it out. Add details to their foot by using small jewels or small pieces of waded up tissue paper for the toenails (we used red as if we were wearing red nail polish).  Glue at the end of each toe as toenails. Include writing by adding this cute message to the foot, “I love you from my head down to my toes.”

Valentine Song (Dr. Jean's CD: Happy Everything)

Sung to the tune of Do You Know the Muffin Man

Will you be my Valentine, Valentine, Valentine?
Will you be my Valentine?
I’ll be yours if you’ll be mine!
Some are red, some are blue.
Some have lace and ribbons, too.
Some are funny, some are not.
I like the candy ones a lot!

Valentine Sandwich

You will need a heart shaped cookie cutter, bread, cream cheese, and red food coloring. Mix the food coloring with the cream cheese until it is pink. Spread the cream cheese in between the two slices of bread. Then use the cookie cuter to cut the bread into a heart-shaped sandwich. Enjoy!

Conversation Hearts

These little candy hearts are good to read, count, sort by color, and eat. In our class we first estimate how many hearts we think will be in our individual box. Then we count to check. Next, we sort the candies by color and graph them to see which color we have more of or fewer of. Then have your child make their own conversation hearts by cutting hearts out of colored construction paper and writing phrases like the ones on the candies. If they make two of each, then they can visually match up the ones that go together, or you can use them as cards and play Memory or Go Fish.

How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day with your children? And please share any activity ideas you may have.

With a Happy Heart,
Shelby Moore