valentine's day
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Friday Freebie – Valentine’s Day Writing Paper
Happy Friday! This was a surprise short week for me with my snow day on Monday, so it flew by! Since Valentine’s Day is next weekend I’m saying that this is the official start of Valentine’s week (yes, Valentine’s week) who doesn’t love taking time to share their love with people who are important?! I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve for my favorite people, and since I’ll see them at different times throughout the week, I’ve made it Valentine’s week 🙂 Today’s freebie is one of the first things that I created for my Teacher’s Pay Teachers store, it’s a great little freebie that you can use a few…
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Valentine’s Day Bags and Boxes
If you’ve ever hosted any kind of Valentine’s Day Party in the classroom, you understand the need for some sort of container to corral all of those cards and treats. I generally like to create ours in the classroom – it makes my life easier because I know that everyone will have one and they will all be the same size. I think that spending the week prior to the big day doing little activities to get ready helps my students understand what the day is all about, and it ensures that they will know what to expect, because they’ve been a part of the planning. In the past my…
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Valentine’s Day cards that Preschoolers can make
I love Valentine’s Day, and I will take any excuse to help my students show their family members how much they care about them. I think that Valentine’s Day is a a great way to practice sharing feelings and emotions, and I always make sure to have card making supplies available before the big day. My students make a ton of cards, they are nothing if not prolific! I thought I would round up some easy ideas that anyone could try, because a little inspiration is always a good thing. Having a few ideas also helps to narrow down the supply list! How easy are these? From I Can Teach…
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Friday Freebie – Candy Heart Sorting
Happy Friday! Can you believe January is almost over? It seems like it has flown by! I’m jumping on the Valentine’s day train because I love Valentine’s day. I wanted to make sure that I had a chance to share a couple of Valentine’s Day freebies with you, so I’m starting a bit early. This Conversation Heart graphing set is the same one that I have been using with my class for the last four years. It is from Pocketful of Centers, and she thought of everything. The set includes a page for sorting, a page for counting each color, and a page for graphing. I use these three pages…
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Preschool Printables for Valentine’s Day
I love to celebrate holidays with my students, and Valentine’s Day stands out as one of my favorites. As an adult, you either love Valentine’s Day, or you hate it, but little one’s haven’t yet developed a reason to hate it. I love that I get to encourage my students to share their love with everyone, and they’re happy to do so! Over the years I’ve collected a ridiculous amount of Valentine’s Day activities, but my favorites are the one’s that I’ve put together for my students. Each year I’ve tweaked them just a bit and I am so proud of the collection that I’ve put together, so I had…
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Our Valentines
If anyone is looking for a great Valentine’s Day gift that kids can make, here’s what we did this year: These turned out even cuter than I had imagined, I would love to get one of these (if I had kids of my own, that is). The bottles came from Scrap 4 Art, one of my favorite places! After cleaning them thoroughly I dug through the scrapbook paper stash to find paper that was colored on both sides, I stuck with red, but you could do any combination of Valentine’s colors. The kids punched the hearts – they got to choose how many they wanted to put in their jar,…
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The messiest activity ever!
I have a class full of boys, so they aren’t super interested in the Valentine’s day activities that I have done with groups in the past (however I suspect that may change next week when half of my plans include candy hearts…), but yesterday we did an art project that had them hooked. I know you’ve seen this one on Pinterest, that’s where I first saw the idea. I was sure the boys would love it, but I was wholly unprepared for the mess that it would make. The idea is that you put a piece of paper on a tray or cookie sheet, then stretch rubberbands across the tray.…
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Valentine math game
This is a super easy number recognition and matching game that I found on Pinterest and adapted for our classroom. I’ll tell you my version, and you can check out my pin boards for the original! First I traced a large heart on a sheet of paper, then I made 15 dots around the edge of the heart with a bingo marker. You could do more or less depending on the needs of your class, my guys really need to work on the teens. I then used the same color bingo marker to mark the bottoms of 15 Hershey kisses. I made three game using three different colors so that…
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