Lilly’s Chocolate Heart

 

• Read ‘Lilly's Chocolate Heart’ by Kevin Henkes … available here. This book is really cute. I actually just ordered this boxed set here. Five Kevin Henkes books (including Lilly’s Chocolate Heart) for about $10!
  • Lilly has a special chocolate heart and she needs to find the perfect hiding spot for it. After trying several hiding places, the best spot is a tasty one! Simple text. Cute story!

• Search for chocolate hearts
  1. Need 26 wrapped chocolate hearts.
  2. Print out a page above from PreKinders (upper or lowercase). Print an extra page to use as a mark-off sheet.
  3. Cut out and attach a letter heart to each chocolate candy.
  4. Hide the 26 hearts around the room.
  5. Let the kids find a heart, identify the letter and color in the matching letter on the mark-off sheet. There are several ways to do this:
     • find the matching heart and color it in
     • find a heart, then write in the letter you found on the blank mark-off page
     • or simply find a heart and place it on top of the matching letter!
  6. When you’re done, you can eat one or two

Valentine Math

During the week before Valentine’s day, we try to do some special Valentine activities. One of them is Valentine Math, using the little boxes of conversation hearts. I like it because they are inexpensive. They each get their own box. Some ideas:

1. Sort the candies by color
2. Count each color and write it down.
3. Line them up (you could even draw a simple graph) and see which color has the most/least.
4. Count the candies all together
5. Copy down one of the messages on the hearts
6. Eat them.

Sucker Valentines

These are the cutest, easiest Valentines around. I can’t take credit. I’ve seen them all over blogs for the last couple of years and decided to make them this year.

1. Take a photo of your child holding his arm out in a fist.
2. In a photo program, add a Valentine’s message. I left a blank spot so my kindergartener could write his classmates names and his own.
3. Print them.
4. Cut a small slit just above and just below the fist. Insert a sucker (we used dum-dums)!

Valentine Pockets

Valentine Pockets ... We made these to share valentines in our family. Take 2 paper plates. Cut one in half, flip upside-down on top of the first plate and staple around the edges. Decorate with stickers and markers!