Valentine’s Day

100 Acts of kindness | Share a heartprint

Come and see this simple idea for young children to be kind and share kindness with a heartprint!

Printmaking with paper hearts

Valentine’s day themed art can be as simple as printmaking with paper hearts. With just a few materials that are readily found around your home or classroom, your children can create beautiful heart-shaped prints.

Valentine lacing cards

Lacing cards are a fun and simple way to build fine motors in preschool-aged children, especially when they are holiday themed.

Hearts you can count on

Hearts are a wonderful shape for sorting, graphing, counting, estimating, and more! Come and see how we put our hearts and minds to work as we explored a little heart math fun!

Happy Valentine’s Day and the winner of the craft puzzles is…

Happy Valentines from Teach Preschool! Announcing the winner of the Craft Puzzle on this post too!

Making tissue paper heart collages in preschool

Using our glue paint to make beautiful tissue paper heart collages..

Making valentine critters in preschool

We made some super sweet valentine critter collages in preschool…

I love you to pieces heart project give-away

Our Valentine Parent Gifts: Come and see what we made for Valentines and while your here, be sure to enter the giveaway too!

Getting ready for a valentine’s day party

Getting ready for Valentine’s Day by making our Valentine’s day party bags…

Pretty purple paper towel heart art…

Exploring paper towel heart art both on my own and in the preschool classroom…

Making a 3D paper heart collage in preschool

Our pre-K class made beautiful 3D heart collages from bright and colorful strips of construction paper!

The heart project: a hearts and craft collaborative ebook

Check out the heart project: a collaboration of over 70 bloggers and a compilation of 100+ heart activities for kids…

A not so perfect preschool teacher’s valentine poem

As a preschool teacher I am not always perfectly great… I sometimes plan things to do That are not considered age appropriate… And sometimes I spend too much time planning for every minute of the day… Instead of giving my students more time To learn through their play… And sometimes I talk too much When [...]

Last minute valentine collage for prekindergarten

I titled this for prekindergarten but any child that has the fine motor skills to do this activity will be able to whip it up fairly quickly. All you need is some construction paper strips to make the hearts and some glue if you want to put the hearts on a piece of paper to [...]

Valentine mailboxes and magnets for preschool play

I started collecting these little red and white mailboxes from the dollar section at Target sometime in January. I thought they would make terrific additions to our February valentine work boxes… To provide a variety of different learning opportunities and types of play, I included magnetic numbers because the mailboxes are magnetic and it would [...]

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