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Valentine's Day the Preschool Way
Heart-y Activities for You and Your Child
By Marie-Helen Goyetche
You'll need:
A cardboard box
A pencil
Scissors
Glue
A bag of potpourri
Ribbon
Trace a heart shape onto the cardboard and cut it out. Make the heart big enough to fit a 4-inch by 6-inch picture. Trace a smaller heart inside the big heart to be used as your frame opening. Attach a ribbon to the heart to be used later as a hanger. Let your child apply glue on the heart, then have him "hide" the glue by covering it with pieces of the potpourri. Make a pretty bow from the ribbon and glue it onto the heart. Let the frame dry for at least 24 hours. Attach a photo of your child to the back of the frame.
You'll need:
Construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Cut out lots of hearts in different sizes from the construction paper. Give your child a piece of construction paper and show him how to make animals using the hearts. For example, one big heart for the body, one medium eart for the head and many smaller hearts for the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands and feet. Once dry, let him use markers or crayons and add more details to his animals. Let him be creative and come up with all sorts of strange animals.
