I love Valentine's Day! A day full of hearts, love and showing appreciation for one another is a wonderful thing. It's fun to do crafts with toddlers leading up to Valentine's Day. Today I'm sharing with you my favorite Valentine crafts for toddlers. These ten crafts are simple, engaging, and create beautiful products! Click on the links below to take you to the directions for each craft. Rainbow Heart Suncatchers from Fireflies and Mud Pies Heart Stamps from Rust and Sunshine You … [Read more...]
Counting Hearts for Preschoolers
It's almost Valentine's Day! If you're like me, you're incorporating hearts into your curriculum right now. I mean, hearts are so adorable and it's fun for Valentine's Day, too! Today I'm sharing with you my counting hearts for preschoolers. These are great for practicing counting, one-to-one correspondence, and recognizing numbers. This is very simple to set up. Simply print the heart printable (found at the bottom of this post), cut out the hearts, cut the hearts in half, and mix up … [Read more...]
Valentine Beginning Sounds Match
Happy February! Valentine's day is around the corner, so hearts and love is a big theme in preschool right now. I created a Valentine beginning sounds match game to share with you all. This is a fun way to practice listening to beginning sounds, which is an important skill for beginning readers. This activity is simple. Print the printable (download at the bottom of the post), cut out the hearts, cut them in half, and then have your preschool match them up! Each letter has a … [Read more...]
Love Craft for Preschoolers
Teaching children to love is so important. Love comes naturally to most, but reminding children they are loved and to love others is invaluable. Today I'm sharing with you a love craft for preschoolers. This craft is so fun to make because you use shaving cream! Here's what you need: card stock paper shaving cream food coloring knife love printable (download at the end of the post) cookie sheet lined with tin foil scraper scissors and glue Begin by lining a … [Read more...]
You Make My Heart Flutter Valentine Craft
I love handprint crafts. They are always so cute and they capture the size of my children's hands, which are growing so quickly! Today I'm sharing with you a fun Valentine's craft with the "You Make My Heart Flutter" phrase on it. Here's what you need for the craft: paint construction paper googly eyes pipe cleaners glue marker Before doing the activity, cut two large hearts and one small heart out of construction paper. Also cut out a long oval for the butterfly's … [Read more...]
Weaving Hearts – Fine Motor Activity
It's important for children to have a lot of time to work on fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are the actions that are performed in the small muscles in the hands, fingers and wrists. Your child practices using fine motor skills when holding a pencil, using a pair of scissors or lacing their shoes. Today's fine motor skill is weaving hearts.Here's what you need for the activity: colorful foam sheets scissors To set up the activity, cut out hearts out of foam sheets. Also cut out 4 … [Read more...]
Heart Sensory Cube
I love that Valentine's Day is coming up! Here's a fun Heart Sensory Cube to make for your baby or toddler! It's a great way your child to feel different textures.This cube is easy to make and took me about 20 minutes to put together. Here's what you need for the heart sensory cube: cube-shaped box hot glue gun different hearts with various textures glitter heart (from The Dollar Tree) shiny heart stickers (from Hobby Lobby) rippled textured heart (from Hobby Lobby) … [Read more...]
Floating Hearts Sensory Bottle
We love creating new sensory bottles and today I'm excited to share with you our Floating Hearts Sensory Bottle. This one is perfect for Valentine's Day and it only needs a few ingredients!! Here's what you need: plastic water bottle (we use the VOSS ones) 1 bottle of glitter glue warm water food coloring heart stones (from Hobby Lobby) To start, pour about half of the bottle of glitter glue into the water bottle. Next, pour in the warm water. Also drop in some food … [Read more...]
Candy Heart Math Printables
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so today I'm sharing candy heart math printables to use with preschoolers. These printables are intended to use with candy hearts (I used Brach candy hearts), but you can also use them with other hearts. Here's a peek at what's inside this math packet: First, there's practice with counting and number sense. Just have the child place the candy hearts in the ten-frames. The purpose of this activity is for kids to visualize quantities and develop … [Read more...]
Fizzing Hearts Activity
This fizzing hearts activity is sure to bring a smile to your little one's face! My boys like any activity that involves something fizzy, and this was no exception. This fizzing hearts activity is a great activity for Valentine's Day or really any day of the year! Here's what you need for the activity: 1/2 cup of baking soda 2 tablespoons of water food coloring 1 bottle of vinegar To start, mix the 1/2 cup of baking soda with the 2 tablespoons of water. Next, drop in a … [Read more...]