Use these Friendship Cards to pass out to friends and give as kindness notes to new friends just because, for birthdays or Valentine's Day.
Valentine’s day is all about friendship, love, and fun! Enjoy my FREE speech therapy valentine's day activity.
You may not typically celebrate Valentines Day at work but might want to start after reading these fun Valentines Day ideas workplace options
We’re making sweet Valentine’s Friendship Necklaces for our class Valentines. My girls are enjoying making each one unique for their friends! With only a few supplies, you can easily make these last minute for a non-candy Valentine gift! They are too sweet! They would work well as bracelets or key chains as well! I’m sharing the … Continued
I love allowing kids to work on simple tracing or cutting activities during their “free time” {like when their REAL projects are done}. I made the cutting pages in black and white sinc…
You may not typically celebrate Valentines Day at work but might want to start after reading these fun Valentines Day ideas workplace options
? Make science come alive for kids with this Valentine's Day Science project. This valentines day activity is EPIC!
Planning a Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day get-together? Create the perfect “Love Story” inspired by Taylor Swift by creating a DIY Valentine’s Day Friendship Bracelet Backdrop. This backdrop is easy and fun to make with affordable materials, and is sure to bring the warmth of friendship and the vibes of Taylor Swift’s tunes to your…
It's no secret that preschoolers will love these adorable Valentine's Centers. The best part is that they are not just adorable... each of these centers provides a valuable opportunity for young children to practice fine motor, language, and cognitive skills.
My favorite Valentine's Day books for little learners (preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten). Books to teach about love, friendship, letters, and the mail.
Add some Valentine's fun to these mind-body tools to keep them fresh and new for your kids. Have a peek at these Valentine’s Day mindfulness activities.
Valentine's Day Activities for Pre-K Kids--this is a great collection of ideas specially made for kids ages 3-5!
Valentine's Day makes for a great time to complete a sweet coloring page! We've got a few new ones to share with you this week. Do you have a request for a new page? We have a big list that we are working on, but always love to hear fresh new ideas to add. Send us a message and let us know. Most of the coloring pages we make are now over in our website Coloring Club (which is free to join) but here on the blog are some originals we have made over the years. Here is a 'scrappy' one I sketched for the blog: And we welcome you to join our Coloring Club so you can grab these gorgeous new cuties! Tag us on social media so we can see your gorgeous completed projects!
Get this free resource to celebrate Saint Valentine's Day in Spanish class.If you have any questions, please let me know at [email protected]! »»----- Vector credits -----««Friend GroupFist Bump...
Are you looking for fun Valentine's Worksheets and Centers for Preschool? You'll love this mix of hands-on activities & no-prep worksheets.
Does your child love science experiments? If so, they'll love this super simple dry erase marker experiment that creates floating hearts!
I'm here to share with you all of my favorite go-to Valentine's Day centers and activities I use with my preschool and pre-k students.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Are you ready for it? Here is a fun, easy, and FREE Valentine's Day Activity for your classroom. It also makes a
It's no secret that preschoolers will love these adorable Valentine's Centers. The best part is that they are not just adorable... each of these centers provides a valuable opportunity for young children to practice fine motor, language, and cognitive skills.
Make these pretty and easy crystal hearts for Valentine's Day science. Our Valentine crystal hearts experiment is simple to set up.
Since young students tend to get extra excited and lose focus the days preceding a holiday class party, I like incorporating science because it almost instantly gets their attention and it is hands-on and engaging. They don’t even realize they’re learning most of the time! In this post, I’m sharing some favorite Valentine-themed science experiments […]
I made this Spanish syllable counting activity for Valentine’s Day, because I wanted an easy, quick way to practice pronouncing Valentine’s Day vocabulary again. You can download the activity below. El Día de San Valentín has words that we use when we talk about emotions, celebrations, family and friends.
What could be better than having students leave their school day feeling loved and appreciated by their teacher and classmates, and feeling the love for their own great people and things in their life? Not
Explore viscosity for kids with this simple Valentines Day viscosity experiment. Kids will love using plastic hearts to test viscosity.
Marshmallow toothpick structures are always a hit with kids, and these heart-shaped marshmallows and toothpicks are all you need for this fun STEM / STEAM activity for Valentine’s Day! Be sure to check out all our Valentine’s Day ideas for kids! My kids and students have always loved building with marshmallows and toothpicks (and we’ve also created …
A gorgeous art-science activity we've done for Valentines Day! Use the classic and fascinating Sharpie and alcohol process to make vibrant heart ornaments!
Let's talk all things Valentine's and celebrating LOVE, shall we? I'm putting together A TON of lessons in this post from weaving to painting, sculpture to clay all for your heart-themed pleasure. So, let's get started! This Jen Stark lesson was one my students really enjoyed last year. You can find all the details, including a video, right here! I did this lesson with my kindergarten and third graders last year and both LOVED it. It's so open ended and allows for big messes and exploration. Try doing this on large paper for big, colorful results. I just happened to have a ton of this large yellow construction paper so that's what we used! Full lesson with video right here. Wanna do some printmaking? I've done this lesson with first and second grade in the past. Each one is so sweet and allows students to really spend a lot of time exploring printmaking. A hit, I promise! Lesson right here. This lesson is one that everyone seems to love! AND each one of these adorable critters comes complete with a how-to-draw video. SO, all ya gotta do is hit play and walk away! Here's the video right here for all animals! Of course, it's the Year of the Rabbit! So you could use that rabbit drawing to celebrate. If you are looking for a weaving project, here's one that my first graders have done nearly every year. It's a great way to introduce weaving and a little sewing too! All the details with plenty of paper weaving videos here. My fourth graders LOVED making these! These giant candy hearts were so fun and made quite the impact when we displayed them with a huge candy heart box. Lesson with video here. Follow-up blog post can be found here. If you want to go a little smaller in scale, you could try this candy heart drawing on for size! Info with video here. Many artists have been inspired by the shape of hearts to create their art. In this lesson, students explored four different artists and a variety of media. It's a fun one and we did it in one art class! Lesson with video here. Kindergarten had so much fun exploring printmaking with these hearts. We used a book as our inspiration. Lesson here...and check out the lesson below for the follow up project we did! Aren't they gorgeous?! AND kindergarten made them, y'all! All the details here. Can you really celebrate Valentine's Day without celebrating the work of Britto? My first graders reviewed pattern and line with this lesson. We also used bleeding tissue paper and paint sticks for this. So, lots of mixed media! All the details can be found here. What's Valentine's Day without a box of chocolates? We learned about the artist Peter Anton and created plaster chocolates and a papier mache box in this lesson. Video right here! Looking for simple and FUN? Try this Chris Uphues-inspired lesson. This post has a video and a free handout! You can thank me later. The kids LOVE this one! Feeling ambitious? Try on a school-wide collaborative! In this, my students, kindergarten through fourth grade, each created a heart using a different medium. You can find out who made what and how it call came together, here. Several years ago, I had to do jury duty so I created this lesson for my students to do with my sub. That's right, this here is a SUB PLAN. And she rocked it! And so did the kids, of course. Video lesson here. This heart-themed clay project is one that I lead the faculty and staff at my school to create. It was an Our Heart Gives Them Wings project and it was so fun to come together as a staff and create. Here's the video I made for the staff to view. My second graders used foil and celluclay to create these hearts! I love them, they look so very Jim Dine-y, don't you think? Video lesson and more details right here. Need a fast and furious, one day art lesson inspired by an artist? This one IS THE BEST! The kids get messy, explore chalk, learn about J Goldcrown...what more could you ask for? Video and more here! My first graders used up scraps to create the hearts you see above and below. We also learned about positive and negative space. This was a fun one and the results were so stinkin' pretty! Lesson here. AND more Chris Uphues love for y'all. These were collage hearts created by second graders and they were just the cutest thing! We added them to our heart printed background, seen below. Lesson here. Whew! AND there you have it! I hope you find something here to get you to Valentine's Day! BUT I really believe we can celebrate love all year 'round, don't you? Enjoy!
What could be better than having students leave their school day feeling loved and appreciated by their teacher and classmates, and feeling the love for their own great people and things in their life? Not
Valentine's Day gross motor activities for kids
Hidden Message Valentine Hearts are a special way to let your kids know that you recognize their unique gifts and personalities. Watch their faces light up as a magic message appears on the heart before their eyes. This is a simple Valentine’s Day activity for kids of all ages – toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten...Read More
I'm going to save my words because I have a lot of pictures to share! In Reading we have been enjoying "Valentine's Day From the Black Lagoon." Watching
We’re making sweet Valentine’s Friendship Necklaces for our class Valentines. My girls are enjoying making each one unique for their friends! With only a few supplies, you can easily make these last minute for a non-candy Valentine gift! They are too sweet! They would work well as bracelets or key chains as well! I’m sharing the … Continued
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For the past three years we have had the opportunity to participate in Cat'n Around Catskill. Originally when our design was submitted our idea was to do Ten Little Caterpillar, inspired by the book and the ten year anniversary of the Cats on Main Street. As we worked on the cat, our idea began to change. We had many discussions about butterflies and the children were immersed in games, stories, songs and art about butterflies. In the art studio they looked at many different species of butterflies and began to draw out their own butterflies. Again, we had more conversations about what butterflies we like best, and what their pictures of butterflies represent. We also learned lots about butterflies such as, they taste a flower with their feet, smell with their antenna and drink with their long proboscis tongue. The drawings created by the children were very intricate and involved, so we began to think about how that would translate on the cat as they painted. We tried a couple different versions, and in addition to discovering the process we would use to make our butterflies, we also discovered that almost every child's favorite butterfly was the Monarch Butterfly. The Monarch butterfly is fascinating and the children were very interested in their migration pattern. The Monarch will fly from North America to Mexico and roost in the Oyamel Tree, an ancient Fir tree in Mexico. They will stay their until the Spring then head back and lay an egg in Texas or Oklahoma, then that butterfly will head North only living for a couple week, lay an egg, and then the next will fly North again only living a couple weeks, their egg will transform and travel North again, and their final egg will be the butterfly to live eight months and travel down to Mexico again. The amazing thing that when these 4 different generations travel North, they follow and stop at almost the exact places their predecessor stopped on the way to Mexico. It is an incredible cycle that is sadly suffering from the diminishing source of Milkweed, as well as the deforestation in Mexico.With further discussion with the children, it was decided that our cat would be focused on Monarch Butterflies. One of the reasons for this decision was that the children became very passionate about saving the Monarchs. When I was teaching about Monarchs I let them know that the population is at risk because the Monarch Caterpillar only eats one food, Milkweed. Children amaze me, their innocent passion about our world is so powerful. When a four year tells you not to cut down your Milkweed to save the Monarchs, it has a gravity that really sends the message home. Trying out different painting processes In the end the children had the most success painting their Monarchs by using their hand prints and then adding the details after. Below you can see our inspiration wall for our project and the process we took to come up with our idea for the cat. We also had the opportunity to have Kate Boyer visit our school with her wonderful educational performance of Monarch Magic, which is a nature awareness performance with soft sculpture and a story through song about the amazing travels and life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly. Her link is highlighted in the title above. The incredible Oyamel Fir Tree with Monarchs roosting created by Kate Chrysalis and a Milkweed plant Monarch Caterpillars The children finding a Monarch that will begin it's migration The Chrysalis being hung on the Milkweed and then the caterpillar emerging from its cocoon. Kate performing with her guitar and pausing to show the children what an actual chrysalis looks like and a butterfly as it emerges from the chrysalis. Children excited to share their knowledge about butterflies Our nature table was even visited by butterflies and Milkweed. Kate was kind enough to lend us her Oyamel tree and props and the children enjoyed playing with them as well as countless adventures into the Oyamel tree to play peek-a-boo. Exploring and making butterfly homes with blocks. Soaring around like a butterfly. And of course we had to become Monarchs as well. Now we come back to the painting of our cat. We started with different variations of gold paint, and the children all had a chance to work together to apply three coats Our next step was to have the older students add their hand print, and our younger students were to do the ten little caterpillars. Our cat sitting with our inspiration board as our process begins to move along. Adding their detail and personal charm to each butterfly. Below are our very focused Caterpillar painters Another picture mid-process And finally we had one of our Art and Soul Alumni paint the face, one of the perks when your mama owns the school:) I have loved doing this project with my students for the past three years, but this cat holds a special place in my heart because of the love and devotion the children developed in learning about Monarchs and wanting to help them survive. It is such a sweet cat, and if you would like to see it yourself, you can find it just before Canal Street on Main Street. Special thanks to The Heart of Catskill for sponsoring us, Tina for the awesome name and all that she does, and Kate Boyer for volunteering her time and talent with her Monarch Magic performance and art, and of course the fabulous students of Art and Soul Preschool, I am so proud of you!
Valentine's Day Social Stories I have mixed emotions about Valentine's Day. Sure, I see the whole 'fabricated holiday' thing to generate sales on candy, flowers
FREE Valentine's Day Candy Hearts Science! Students will explore how candy hearts sink or float and dissolve in water, soda and vinegar.
