Enjoy this holiday of love by sharing these fun Valentine’s Day activities, crafts, games, and gift ideas.
Make some heart fingerprint cookies. This is a great recipe to help little ones! Use a roll of prepared sugar cookie dough. Place the cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet. Dip thumb or index finger into egg mixture to generously coat with color. Press your finger on each cookie at an angle twice to form a heart. Sprinkle with red sprinkles and bake. Create a small bag with some colored cellophane and add some cookies. Tie with a special ribbon and card. Share these treats with your neighbors and friends.
Make a family photo album. Cut out a cover from red craft paper and write the title “I love my family” at the top of the page. Cut a heart out of pink craft paper and decorate with glitter pens. Each member of the family creates a page for the family book. Ask each family member to add a photo(s) to their page and decorate it. Laminated for added strength. Punch holes in the pages and tie them together with ribbon or string. Cut out a small heart and attach it to the end of the string. This makes a great coffee table book.
Create a Valentine Mouse Bookmark. Make this simple Valentine’s Day bookmark to give to someone special. Use a wooden stick and paint it red. Trace and cut out one large and two small hearts from red and pink craft paper. Glue small hearts on top of the large heart for ears. With marker draw eyes and whiskers on the face. Glue on the craft stick and add a conversation heart just below the face.
Play and learn with Valentines Conversation Hearts. Use a muffin pan and add colored circles to the bottom of each pan. Have the children sort the conversation hearts and fill them into the correct colored cans. Let your child be the candy shop keeper and you be the customer who buys candy. Example: I would like to buy 3 pink candies and 2 green candies. Have the children count them and hand them to you. Add them up to see how many candies you bought altogether.
Stay home and enjoy a family game night. Enjoy some quality family time and share some laughs with a game of “Candyland.”
Gifts from the heart. Make homemade valentines to share with your classmates. Buy lollipops and make your own lollipop cards. Find patterns and prints at http://www.kidssoup.com. Be sure to remember special people your child is giving Valentine’s gifts for, like older neighbors.
Valentine’s Day is a wonderful celebration of love to share with friends and family. Make this Valentine’s Day a fun and sweet memorable day.