Caroline
Happy Valentine’s Day! We’ve been having a blast this past week with some Valentine-inspired activities, and I wanted to share them all in one post. After enjoying some fun reading, we decided to get creative and make our own big, homemade Valentines. It’s been a great way to celebrate the holiday and enjoy some hands-on crafting!
Every year we enjoy making Valentine’s for Aunts and Uncles. This year I was inspired by a card I came across and decided to create something similar. To save paper, we used half sheets for each Valentine since we were making so many. Here’s how the front of the card turned out!
I made a heart template that we laid over the card and we used a pencil eraser to stamp different colors into the heart shape.
When the heart was completely stamped, we took off the template and had a colorful heart on our card.
After making two cards, it was taking FOREVER so we decided to use our extra large pencil to make the stamps. It worked much better for us. The boys wrote an I and U on the side of the heart to complete the front of the card.
The boys took turns writing on the back of the cards. On a couple they wrote things they loved about their Aunt/Uncle. On others they wrote Happy Valentine’s Day.
I was especially proud of my preschooler for how hard he worked writing on the back of the cards. For just turning 5 years old, he is doing really good at his writing.
I also came up with a fun idea to create an alphabet matching game using ” broken hearts”. I designed a template with hearts, placing a capital letter on one side and a lowercase letter on the other. After cutting out each heart, I made a zig-zag cut through the middle, turning it into a puzzle!
We laid all the capital letters out on the table while keeping the lowercase letters in a pile to the left. My son took the top lowercase letter on the pile and matched it up with the capital letter. I put my template in a PowerPoint document which you can download HERE.
We finished off our Valentine’s week by making some abstract Valentine’s Art. We used our dollar section hearts as a heart stamp and pressed them all over a sheet of paper in red and pink.
While the paint was still wet, my son sprinkled red and pink glitter all over the hearts.
After dumping off the excess glitter, we used the leftover red and pink paint and an old toothbrush to splatter some paint all over the paper. It looks so pretty glued onto a red background.
I know it’s hard to see how pretty the glitter looks in a picture, but it’s vibrant and beautiful!
Hope you have a Happy Valentine’s Day!!
