Ideas and resources
This article by Scary Mommy is really honest. It’s true kids will play with whatever you allow them to play with. Boxes are fun to create with. My only complaint would be making something so great with such detail and it only being made of cardboard. It’s not exactly something that could be handed down or passed on to someone else. It would probably only have a year of life in it.
There are so many different classroom activities you can do around Valentine’s Day, from STEM activities to art projects and math activities.
I wasn’t sure how to share more ideas this year than I already have, but I thought for this one I would just share activities of various sorts that involve heart shapes.
For example, this color sorting heart game from Mason Jar of Memories. You can do it with the printables and buckets as shown, or cut hearts out of construction paper and have a larger heart of the same color somewhere in the room so kids have to go to a different place in the room for each color. That makes it a bit of a scavenger hunt to find the hearts and put them in the right place.
Another way to get little ones moving with a Valentine’s theme is playing musical hearts. This idea is from No Time for Flash Cards, and in involves writing different actions on hearts the kids walk on. When the music stops they do what their heart says.
If you scroll down in this post from Mrs. Plemons’ Kindergarten you’ll find another use for big hearts kids can step on: write the letters of the alphabet and do a musical alphabet hearts game, where the child identifies the letter. (You can also use them for an alphabet scavenger hunt, which you’ll also find in this post.)
Or you can put numbers on them and have kids match the number to another heart with that number represented in dots (or hearts, or whatever you want) like in this idea from Active Littles. Kids can also cut out the hearts (or you can do it for them) and use them to help them learn how to count to 20. This one is form Happy Toddler Playtime.
I guess we’re going to need some foam hearts for all these fun heart shaped activities!
my nephew had a rocket made out of cardboard boxes, it lasted for 3 years and only went to the skip after he had grown out of it. Yes, it needed the odd repair, but everything he has ever had that he loved has needed the odd repair.