Ideas and resources
Get your family in the patriotic mood with the simple and easy Rag Balls from Crafts n’ Coffee! You’ll have to read her explanation of how rag women in the early days of this country used to save all of their fabric by rolling them into rag balls…what a great tribute to the birth of the USA!
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!
Thank you for featuring our Patriotic Rag Balls. It’s a super simple way to make this heritage craft. Sharon, http://www.craftsncoffee.wordpress.com; http://www.styrofoamcrafts.com.
I think this patriotic rag ball craft is awesome and so decorative for this time of year. The other crafts at this site such as the patriotic topiary are unique and definitely keepers!