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❤️Valentine's Inspired Unit Study

Love is in the air! Welcome to our ❤️Valentine's Inspired Unit study! I hope you will follow along as we will be spreading love through hands-on fun and crafty activities! This time of the year is so special as children can learn to be thoughtful by making Valentines gifts; they can express creativity through many arts and crafts which can be turned into DIY Valentine's cards, and they can have fun with many Valentine's themed activities and unit studies.  

DSC_0045We read this Valentine's book which is perfect for a three-four-year-old child. The story of Saint Valentine is very sad, and this "Rookie" series book has just enough information for little ones to understand the holiday with big colorful illustrations on each page-spread.

Below you will find activities arranged by the area of study.

 

🙌🏻 PRACTICAL LIFE

Hearts from BeadsSee here Valentine's Inspired ❤️ Hearts Pipe Cleaner Beading Craft.

IMG_9923For more on pipe-cleaner DIY, see here Pipe Cleaner ❤️️Heart ✏️Pencil Valentine's Gift.

DSC_0023See here a 📽️ video post~ 💞Valentine Inspired DIY Colander and ❤️️Heart Threading 🙌🏻 Fine Motor Activity.

 

DSC_0027See here ✂️Scissors • Primary Colors 🍝Pasta Cutting.
  

DSC_0016-3See here DIY ❤️Valentines Heart Stickers ✂️ Scissors🎥Cutting Activity for Kids.

 

 


SENSORIAL ACTIVITIES

DSC_0039❤️Valentines Foam Slime Hearts Cookie Cutters

SENSORY +🙌🏻FINE MOTOR❤️Foam Slime:

  •  1/2 cup of clear glue
  • 1 teaspoon of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
  • 1 tablespoon of borax powers
  • few drops of red coloring
  • add glitter      
  • add foam balls       ~ mix well ~
  • [Add last] ACTIVATOR: squirts of contact lens solution  until the substance begins to bond and starts to come off of the sides of the plate (then mix well with the hands ~ you will notice in few minutes how the consistency begins to change, becoming less and less sticky);
  • *if too sticky, add a few more drops of contact lens solution until it feels right ~be careful not to add too much as it will become brittle.

DSC_0001Fine Motor Sensory heaven! For more on slime, see here 🎅🏻 Santa ❤️ Red Slime DIY Jar (Science 🔬⚗️⚖️ 101 🎥Series 🎇)

 

 

DSC_0093See here Frozen Juice ❄️Ice 👄Lips 😋Taste Matching 🎥 Sensorial Activity.

DSC_0008Check out here our Valentine's inspired Love ❤️️ Sensory Bin.

DSC_0019For detailed presentations, see here the introductory lesson on Knobless Cylinders.

DSC_0045-2See here ❤️Valentines ✨Glitter Sensory Bottle ~ Calming Jar.

 ❤️Heart Spearmint Candy ⚗️Experiment ~  the color and sugar dissolve into the water and then diffuse through it.

Read here  about the ⚗️ science behind this experiment, when we did a similar experiment but with Skittles ~ "Colorful 🌈 Skittles Fun💧 Water Science Experiment for Kids •🔬⚗️⚖️  101 🎥 Series 🎇."

 


LANGUAGE DSC_0025❤️Valentines 🙌🏻Tactile 🔠Language Sensory Bin❣️

Making ❤️red rice 🍚 was super easy (add a little vinegar to dry uncooked rice, add coloring, mix, then lay to dry), and Adrian was doing a puzzle he lost interest in a while ago! (Don't you love ♻️up-cycling old toys!) Today, his interest was ignited since he had to use a 🙈 blindfold (ala sleeping 💤mask), seek 🔠the letters and identify 🔠them purely by their shape via the tactile sense of 🙌🏻touch! (We are using these alphabet letters.) It was super fun, and we kept playing it, taking turns over and over!

 


 

 MATH

DSC_0024Read a post here about Valentine's Hearts 💯Hundred Board.

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 See here Odd and Even 📽️lesson where Adrian explains the concept of pairs.

❤️Valentines Numbers Sequencing
DSC_0011This ❤️Valentines Inspired🔢Number Sequencing DIY took less than 5 ⏱mim to set up! 

What you need: clothespins, heart counters (we are using plastic ones from Michales Store), a Sharpie and a glue gun (to glue the hearts to the clothespins). Then I simply wrote on four strips of paper number sequencing: 10-19; 20-19; 30-39 and 40-50 to reinforce number recognition and sequencing with teens and tens. For a younger child, write numbers 1-10 (like here) and have your child find a missing number. Did I mention that this is also an awesome fine motor exercise for those little fingers!

 

DSC_0046 Read here Valentine's inspired - Number Bingo for Early Math (Numbers 1-50).

 


 

 ART/CRAFT

DSC_0056"Rawr! Means I love you in Dinosaur!"

This card was inspired by Little Tiny Learner 🎨 (see here). I hope I was not the only one who was making Valentine's Cards on Valentine's Day! (Well, just a few extra ones Adrian decided to give out the day of.) Little Tiny Learner 🎨has a detailed description on her blog (see here) on how to make this awesome card, as well as a card's template. Here are a few variations we have done:

  • since I do not have a double-sided printer, I tried printing one page at a time and then re-inserting that same page, but for some reason I made mistakes (either 2 pages printing on one or the layout was off), so I printed as single page the next few cards and then just glued the backs together ~ and these cards came out thicker and more substantial which I liked;
  • we used blue washable finger paint instead of the ink pads, which I did not have;
  • neither did I have the Kwik Stix to draw the mouth, so using a glue gun I secured the cut red pipe-cleaner; in addition to googly eyes, 
  • we also sprinkled glitter when the paint was still wet and added some Dino stamps (dipped into these craft ink pads) as embellishments.
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 Making this card was also a great practice for Arian writing his name. 

 

 

DSC_0041 See here a video of Adrian making 💗Valentine's Inspired Threaded ♻️Paper Heart Craft.

 

IMG_9914Make💙 hearts,🌺 flowers, or a 🖼 frame for your Valentine with fusible beads! Read here Pixel Art Fusible Beads.

 

DSC_0007See here Valentine's 💝 Card ~Blue Truck 🚙 Foot Print~ Sending Loads of💗Love.

DSC_0003-2Julia and Adrian's feet Art Projects, along with 36 Classroom Valentine's Day Gifts (see below).

DSC_0066Read here a post about Classroom Valentine's Day Gift Ideas.

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 I hope you liked our ❤️Valentine's inspired unit. I would love to hear which activity was your favorite!

To see our shelf set up last year, see here Valentine's 💗 Inspired Shelfies & Activities Roundup.

I would love to hear what you think, so leave a comment! And, please, spread the 💖 love & SHARE our journey! CLICK 👇🏻below: 📍SAVE, 💌SUBSCRIBE & 📲FOLLOW

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