Valentines Day Fun and the letter H and the letter L!

Valentines Day Fun and

Letters H and L!

The Letter Hh
H is for hearts!

h is for hands

The letter Ll

L is for Ladybug

l is for lion

l is for Lego!

Valentines Day Projects

Cupcake Liner Heart Flower

Heart Shaped Elephants

Heart Shaped Tissue Paper Sun Catchers

I used my laminator for this project but you could use Con-Tact Paper and tissue paper.  

Heart Shaped Frogs

I love you Hand and Footprints

The poem says:  I love you from the bottom of my heart to the tips of my toes.

Paper Heart Flowers

What do you Love?

Here is the link for What do you Love?

 Be Mine Heart Hand Print

I Love You To Pieces

Here is the link for I love you to pieces!

Heart Shaped Ladybug

Learning Projects

Caterpillar Heart Name!

Skill:  names, letter recognition, counting letters in your name

Heart Sizes

Skills:  size order, gluing, counting

Things I Love Book

Skills:  writing, thinking skills

H is for Heart - Find It

Skills:  letter recognition

Learning Activities

 Candy Heart Colors

Skills:  coloring, color recognition

Here is the link for Candy Heart Colors

Cupid's Missing Lowercase Letters

Skills:  lowercase letters, writing letters, letter recognition

Here is the link for Cupid's Missing Letters

Heart Tracing

Skills:  tracing, fine motor

Here is the link for Heart Tracing

Valentine Shapes

Skills:  Shape identification and recognition, colors, coloring

Here is the link for Valentine Shapes

Candy Heart Count and Sort

Skills:  Colors, sorting, counting, 

Letter L Stamping

Skills:  letter recognition

Heart Letter Matching

Skills:  letter recognition, upper and lowercase letter matching

Here is the link for Heart Letter Matching

I Heart Patterns

Skills:  patterns, coloring

Here is the link for Heart Patterns

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day

Projects

Love Hand and Foot Prints

Press  red painted hand onto a piece of colored construction paper

Press painted feet onto the paper to make a heart shape

Paint on the letter L and e to complete the word Love

Love Bug

Trace a large heart onto red construction paper

Trace a medium heart onto black construction heart

Trace small hearts onto black construction paper

Directions:  Cut all of the hearts out and assemble and glue the pieces onto a pink piece of paper to make the Love Bug!  Glue on two googly eyes.  Write Love Bug on the paper.

  

Heart Chain

Here are the directions for this very simple, fun, cute Heart Garland! 

Whooo Loves You?!?

Cut out the body shape for the owl along with eyes, a beak, two feet, a large heart and a flower or bow tie.

Glue all of the pieces onto a larger piece of construction paper.

Paint both hands with red or pink or purple paint and press onto the owl.

Love Bug

You can use craft foam or construction paper

Cut our a large heart for the body, a small heart for the top feathers, two small hearts for the wings and tail feather, two smaller hearts for the feet and a smaller heart for the beak.  Construct your bird and glue on a googly eye and draw the legs with black marker

Heart Snail

Cut out three hearts - 1 large, 1 medium, 1 small

Cut out a snail body shape from green construction paper

Directions:  

Glue the snail to a piece of construction paper

Glue the large heart to the back of the snail, then the medium heart in the center of the large heart and finally the small heart in the center of the medium heart

Draw an eye, mouth, and two heart antenna on the snail

Learning Activities

Heart Name

Skills:  name recognition, name writing, gluing

Write child's name on a piece of paper

Cut out small hearts (you will need quite a few) of varying colors

Cut out larger hearts - for the name to be written on.

Directions:  Glue small hearts over the letters of your name

Glue one larger heart underneath each letter of your name.  

Write each letter of your name on the larger hearts.

Heart Letter/Word Match

Skills:  matching, letter identification, cvc words, sounds, making words, gluing

Cut out medium sized hearts

Cut each heart in half

For Beginners:  Write uppercase letter on 1 side and lowercase letter on the other side of the heart

For Advanced:  CVC words. Write beginning consonant sound on 1 side and ending vowel consonant sounds on the other sides of the heart.

Directions: Beginners: Match the letters on the hearts and glue them to a piece of paper

Advanced:  Make words with your hearts and glue the heart words to the paper

Counting Hearts

Skills:  counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence

Cut out 3 large hearts (more if you would like).

Glue the hearts to a piece of colored construction paper

Cut out smaller hearts from colored paper.

Directions:  Say the number, glue the matching amount of hearts onto the large heart.

Heart Counting 1-3

Skills:  Math - counting, number recognition 1-3

I created a word document that focused on counting hearts.  I only focused on the numbers 1, 2, 3. 

Heart Letter Matching

Skills:  Letters, upper and lowercase recognition, writing letters, matching

I created a word document that focused on matching upper and lowercase letters.  I  typed each letter in the middle of a heart to go with our Valentines Day theme.  I also focused on the letter Oo. I emphasized the writing of the letter Oo.

Valentine Heart Count

Skills:  Math - Counting, number recognition

I created a word document with 4 hearts numbered 1-4

Directions:  Say the number on the heart and place the matching number of Candy Hearts on the heart . 

Writing Letters

Skills:  Letter writing, letter recognition

I created a document with hearts stacked in two rows.

I laminated the sheet

Directions:  With a dry-erase marker practice making matching Upper and Lowercase letters

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

 

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Projects

Waterbottle Glo-Bugs

Wrap an empty, plastic water bottle in green construction paper

Secure with tape

Punch 4 holes into the green paper

Wrap chenille stems to make the feet and place them through the holes

Cut wings out from yellow construction paper

Decorate/color the wings

Staple the wings to the green construction paper

Glue on bead eyes or googly eyes

Wrap a chenille stem around the neck of the bottle to form the antenna

Place a Glow Stick inside the bottle

The Full Effect of the Glo -Bugs!

 

The finished products!

Craft Stick Fireflies

Glue one colored craft stick on top of two different colored craft sticks to make the body & the wings

Glue on googly eyes or beads (for the eyes)

 

Craft Stick Ladybug

Glue together 3 black craft sticks and 2 red craft sticks to make the body

Glue a black craft stick on top of the body

Add black dots to the red craft sticks

Glue on googly eyes and black pipe cleaners

 

Clothespin Fireflies

Decorate the top of a clothespin with markers

Glue 2 colored craft sticks - in an X on the clothespin to make the wings

Glue on 2 googly eyes  

 

 Milk Bottle Cap Bugs!

Draw a half moon with black permanent marker and color it in

Glue 2 googly eyes on the half moon shape

Draw dots/circles with a black, permanent marker

 

Clothespin Grasshoppers

Paint a clothespin - let dry

Cut 2 - 3 inch pieces and 2 - 6 inch pieces from  floral wire

Hot glue the ends of the 3 inch pieces on the front opening of the clothespin and the 2 6 inch pieces on the back of the clothespin opening

Glue a googly eye on each side of the clothespin

Bend the floral wire to create your grasshopper 

 

 

Learning Activities

Counting Lightning Bugs

Math - counting, one-to-one correspondence

Addition, plus one

Pre-K:  Say the number and add the appropriate number of "lightning bugs"

Kindergarten/1st Grade:  write in + 1 after each number

Find the sum and draw the lightning bugs

Here is the link to this activity

 

Addie doing the Pre-K activity

 

The Kindergarten + 1 Variation

 

Firefly Shake

Math - counting, addition, one-to-one correspondence

I don't remember where I got this activity from - Maybe The Mailbox Magazine ?

I have about a dozen of these Firefly pictures laminated that I keep in an old, clean PB jar along with the directions and dice. 

Directions:  Dump the Firefly pictures out on the floor

Roll the dice

Count the dots on the dice and pick up the same number of fireflies and place them in the jar.

When all of the fireflies are in the jar sing this song -

To the tune of Shoo Fly

Fireflies are fun to see

Fireflies are fun to see

Fireflies are fun to see

But now it's time to set them free!

(dump out the Fireflies and start again)

 



I modified this game to make it more difficult by using two dice and adding the numbers!

 

Insects - Observe and Draw!

Science - insects

Here is the link to this activity

I modified this activity by only doing a couple of the parts

 

 Observations

 Dragonfly Pictures