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

Valentine's Day Week: Saturday!

Crafts:

Valentine's Animals: Different colored craft foam, Glue, Scissors, Pencil

Cut out a variety of different-sized hearts.
Glue them together in unusual ways to make cute or funny valentine animals.
For example: A Bunny: You could take a big heart place it upside down. Then glue a smaller heart on top of the bigger heart for the head. For the arms and feet use smaller hearts and glue they on. Then for the nose and eyes, cut out very small hearts and glue them on. Cut out bunny ears and you will have a cute little bunny.

Valentine's Bookmark: Craft Foam, Glue, Glitter, Sequins, Foam marker, Hole Puncher, Ribbon

Cut out a long rectangle for the bookmark. Fridge the ends of the bookmark.
Punch a hole in the upper corner and add a ribbon. Glue a heart on the end of the ribbon. Make 2 hearts and glue the ribbon in-between them. Write a message on both sides of the heart.
Write a message on the bookmark to your child's Valentine.
Have your child make hearts out of the craft foam and glue them onto the bookmark.
Add glitter and sequins to the bookmark.

Heart Photo Frame: Craft Foam(Red, Pink, Purple, White), Glue, Glitter, Foam Marker, Magnet

Cut out a 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" red piece. Cut out a rectangle out of the middle for the picture. Remember not to make the middle as big your picture because it will fall out.
Cut out different colored hearts. Then right sayings on the front of the hearts. Like: I Love You, Be Mine, Kiss Me, Hug Me.
Then glue the hearts all over the frame. You can glue them on top of each other on sides and just layer them around. Let dry.
Place magnet on the back.
Tape your photo on the back and hang up.

Tissue Paper Heart: Red Sticky Back Foam Craft., Red and White Tissue Paper, Ribbon or Magnet, Scissors, Pencil with eraser

Cut out little Squares, about 1" a piece, from the red and white tissue paper.
Make a heart out of the foam craft, the size you want. Peel off paper off the heart, lay sticky-size up.
Have your child wrap a square around the pencil end and stick it to the heart. Start with the red tissue paper and fill the middle of the heart in a heart shape. Leave the sides of the heart for a border of white tissue paper.
Glue a ribbon on the back for hanging or put a magnet on the back for hanging.

Family Heart Mobile: Scissors, construction paper, photos of family, glue, hole puncher, string or yarn, wire coat hanger

Cut out hearts from colored construction paper, one for each family member. Vary the color and sizes, but make sure each heart is large enough to glue a photo on.
Take the photographs and cut out heart-shaped photos of each member of the family; if you want us use group photos, cut them to fit on one bigger paper heart.
Glue one photo to each colored paper heart.
Decorate the hearts with markers or write the names of each family member along the edges of the paper hearts.
Punch single holes in the center of the hearts. Thread various lengths of yarn through the holes and tie knots. Tie the hearts to a wire clothes hanger at varying lengths to create a mobile.

Activities:

Valentine Puzzle: 6 Wide Craft Sticks, Markers, Masking Tape, Ribbon

Tape the craft sticks together to create a panel.
Turn the panel over. Use markers to draw a valentine picture and/or write a special message on the panel.
Remove the tape from the back of the panel to separate the stick.
Stack the sticks in random order; then tie a ribbon around them.
To use: unwrap the sticks; then put them together to display the picture and/or greeting.

Snacks:

Check out Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturday for Snack

Education:

Letters/Words:

Word of the Day: Review the Words of the Week: The, Of, And, To
Practice the four words of the week with your child.
Do does your child remember how to spell any of them?

Numbers:

Clay Numbers: Saucepan, 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1 cup water, a few drops of food coloring, 1 tablespoon, vegetable oil, 2 teaspoons cream of tarter.

Homemade Clay:

Combine the above ingredients into a saucepan.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until a ball is formed.
Let cool completely.
Now you knead the clay until it is smooth and not sticky.
This clay will last about one week when stored in an airtight plastic container or bag.

Clay Numbers:

Roll the clay back and forth with both hands making 3 snakes.
Bend and curl the clay snakes to form numbers 1, 2, and 3 in order.
See if you can identify each number with your eyes closed by feeling its shape.

Use 2 lumps of clay to make impressions from 2 different objects in the room; then have someone guess where in the room your impression came from.
Here's a little saying for your kids to say: " I love to roll and pat the clay. It's so much fun to do all day.

Nursery Rhyme:

Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake, Baker's Man

For words, origins, game, popular culture: Wikipedia

Reading:
The mitten by Jan Brett
Tissue Paper Mitten: Tissue Paper(Different colors), Sticky Back Foam Craft, Glue, Scissors, Pencil

Trace your child's hand on the foam craft to form a mitten. Make sure your child keeps their fingers closed and thumb out.

Cut or tear the tissue paper into pieces.

Take the back off the mitten.

Place pieces of tissue paper onto the mitten. If you want to overlap the paper, you can use glue to make them stick.

Music:

Snowflakes and Cupcakes (Tune: Raindrops and Lemon Drops) If all the snowflakes were chocolate covered cupcakes Oh, what a snow it would be! I'd go outside with my mouth open wide (open mouth and stick out tongue) Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah If all of the snowflakes were chocolate covered cupcakes Oh, what a snow it would be!