Lost In Pizzaland: Valentine's Day Week: Week 21: Friday!

Valentine's Day Week: Friday!

Crafts:

Bottle-cap Picture: 30 Plastic Bottle-caps, Red Paint, Thin Cardboard, Construction Paper, Glue, Pencil

Glue a piece of construction paper onto a piece of cardboard. Let dry.
Draw a heart onto the paper.
Glue bottle-caps faced down onto the paper.
Write or decorate it anyway your child wants.

Gelatin-Colored Heart Creation: Glue, Powered Gelatin, Paper, Pencil, Newspaper

Lay newspaper onto the table.
Place paper onto the newspaper and draw a heart onto the paper.
Then spread glue over the drawn heart.
Sprinkle gelatin onto glue and shake off excess. Let dry.
Have your child finish decorating their project.

Heart-Shaped Sun-catcher: 2 Large sheets of Red construction paper, 12" x 15" piece of clear con-tact paper, tissue paper hearts in assorted colors and sizes, clear glitter, pencil, scissors, glue, thin cardboard

Make a heart tracer out of the cardboard. To make a heart tracer, draw a large heart. Then, starting and ending on the straight edge, cut 1 1/2 inches inside the curve of the shape.
To make heart rings, fold each sheet of red construction paper in half. Place the straight edge of the heart tracer on the fold of each sheet; then trace the outer and inner edges of it. Cut out the shape on both lines. Do not cut on the fold.
Fold the con-tact covering in half. Place the straight edge of the heart tracer on the fold. Trace only the outer edge of the tracer with a pencil; then cut out the shape.
Remove the backing from the con-tact covering. Randomly place tissue paper hearts on the sticky side of the covering.
Sprinkle glitter onto the remaining sticky areas of the covering.
Glue the decorated covering between the two heart rings.

"Love Bug" Puppet: Red, Pink, White and Purple Construction Paper, Glue, Markers, Paper Lunch Bag

Cut out a heart and draw a cute face on it with a felt-tip marker.
Attach some accordion-pleated strips to the top of the heart for feelers. Glue a small heart to the top of each feeler.
Glue the heart head on the bottom of a paper lunch bag.
Decorate the rest of the bag with heart-shaped "spots."
Place your hand in the bag and work the fold near the bottom with your fingers and thumb to make the bug "talk."

Activities:

1, 2, 3 Launch!Game: 16" Cardboard Square, Clean 2-Liter Plastic Bottle, Markers, Scissors, Stapler, Construction Paper, Round Self-Adhesive Labels, Plastic Lid, Paper Clips

For the board: cut 16-inch Cardboard square.
With an adult's help, cut the top from a Clean 2-Liter Plastic Bottle, and discard it. Cut eight evenly spaced slits from the rim of the bottle to 1 1/2 inches from the bottom. Place the bottle in the middle of the board. Pull down the tabs, and mark the board where the tabs end.
At each mark, draw a rectangle, and write Launch! on it. Draw four squares to connect each rectangle to another. So in-between launch word are 4 squares. With Markers, color the squares in four colors, like launch: then red, blue, green, purple. Then decorate the middle of the board. Staple the tab ends onto the rectangles.
For cards: use Construction Paper matching the four colors of the squares. Cut four 2-inch-by-3-inch cards from each color. Cut four more cards from another color, and write the Launch! on them.
For chips: stick four Round self-adhesive labels on a plastic lid and cut around them. Use markers to color each circle differently.
To PLAY: Shuffle the cards. Choose a starting point for everyone to use. Each player taken a chip and, in turn, picks a card, then places his or her chip on the first space that matches that card. If it lands on a Launch! space, the player tries to launch his or her chip into the middle by pressing on one end of the chip with a paper clip. If the chip does go in, the player can pick a new card. The first player to make it around the board wins.

Ballon Heart Bat Game: Large Paper Plate, Paint, Crayons, and/or Markers, Colored Glue, Glue, Jumbo Craft Sticks or Tongue Depressors, Balloon

Decorate a plate with whatever materials you like. We made a big heart in the middle, with several smaller hearts surround it and in it with colored glue.
Glue one stick to the middle of the back of the plate. For a larger handle, glue another stick to the first stick with about a 1" overlap.
Blow up a balloon to about a softball size and see how many times your child can bounce the balloon off the bat.
Make two bats and play pretend tennis with a friend.
You can even cut the plate into a heart shape and decorate that way. You could punch holes around the plate, and thread yarn in and out of the holes too.

Snacks:

Heart-Shaped Brownies from Little Debbie
Valentine's Cookies:

Nestle Toll House: Valentine Hearts with different hear messages and icing included
Nestle Toll House: Valentine Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies
I found mine at Wal-Mart in the refrigerator section for around $2

Education:

Letters/Words:

Word of the Day: Index Card, Pen

To
Write this word onto an index card and use as a flash card. Place the card in an index card holder box, so that your child can practice it.
Practice this word with your child all day.
Make sure to ask them throughout the day how to spell it.
Point the word out in stories that you read to your child.

Rhyming Words: Index cards, Pen

Start with the word Cat. Think of words that rhyme with Cat like: Bat, Fat, Hat, Mat, Pat, Sat
Point out to your child how they rhyme.
Show them that the only difference between all the words is the first letter.
Write ______ AT on an index card. Make sure to write a line before the at.
Then cut out small squares out of index cards, with the first letters of each word like: B, C, F, H, M, P, S
Next, have your child place a square letter on the line and ask them what it says.
Have your child make up sentences with the words like: The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat. Can also work in their daily words to the sentences too.
Have them right each word out and make sure they know how easy it is to just replace the first letter to get another word.

Numbers:

Sing the song Three Blind Mice
Now substitute the following words to the same tune. Hold up the right number of fingers as you sing one, two, three.

One, Two, Three

See How I Count

I Count one, two, three, and I start with one.

I count, one, two, three, it's a lot of fun!

I count one, two, three, and now that I'm done,

I can count to three,

I can count to three.

Make up other songs with one, two, three. Sing the numbers to a tune you already know or make up an entirely new song yourself! Here's one to sing The Farmer in the Dell:

I love to count to three,

I start with one, my work is done,

When I say one, two, three

Music:

Have your child play their Kazoo

I Love The Color Red! Song:

Oh, I love the color red, R E D
Oh, I love the color red, R E D
Oh, I love the color red, like the jam spread on my bread,
Oh, I love the color red, R E D

Reading:

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Handprint Mitten Keepsake: Big Piece of Red Craft Foam, Blue and Green Craft Foam, White Finger Paint, Blue Ribbon, Glue, Foam Marker

Cut out a big red foam heart.
Trace your hands on the blue craft, keep fingers closed, to make the mittens.
Cut out 2 strips to glue on top of the mittens for fur on the mittens.
Have your child place their hands into the white finger paint and place their hands onto the mittens, make sure they put their hands onto the right mittens.
Glue hands onto the heart.
Then write a simple sentence at the bottom of the heart like: Cold Hands, Warm Heart!

Nursery Rhyme:

"Georgie Porgie"

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

Georgie Porgie Rhyme: origins and history

Some Ideas Were Found In The Following Books:

Big Monthly Arts and Crafts by The Mailbox
The Kids' Encyclopedia Of Things To Make And Do by Richard Michael Rasmussen/Ronda Lee Rasmussen
Highlights: The Holidays 2009 Magazine
Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items! by Boyds Mills Press
Math Play! by Diane McGowen & Mark Schrooten