Valentine’s Day Cards

 

Love is in the air and we had so much fun making these cards for the girls to pass out to their friends at school!

When I saw these “I Love You to Pieces” valentines  I immediately thought of Juliette.  She loves cutting and is always creating a little scrap pile of cut pieces for no apparent reason.  This was perfect to put those cuttings to use for a real project.  I gave her pieces of pink, purple and red construction paper and had her make confetti out of it.  Then she glued the pieces on to the hearts like they were sparkles.  She had a blast!! 

  I picked up these cute pencils for Emily to hand out, but wanted something else to go with them.  These printable mazes were so cute and the perfect way for her to include a sweet massage and her name. 

stART ~ Love Bugs

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART. 

This week Emily read Love Bugs, by David Carter at school.  We have enjoyed some of his other pop-up books together and this one was just as cute.  The intricate pop-up pages really captivate the girls’ attention and the rhyming text is fun to read.  Although it is only 5 pages long it is a fun book to enjoy together for Valentines Day.

Emily made this cute “Love Bug” to go along with the story. 

To make the love bug she colored in the face and used a heart shaped rubber stamp to make spots on the body.   Then she glued the pieces together.  The body is a large heart made out of construction paper.  The legs and antennas are black construction paper strips and they used heart punches on the cheeks, feet and antenna.  Her favorite part was putting spots on the love bug with the heart shaped rubber stamps!

A few years ago we also made these cute Love Bug Valentines to give out to her friends.   I thought of it as soon as I saw this book :0)

Muffin Tin Monday ~ Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

This week for Muffin Tin Monday the theme was Valentine’s Day and we had fun celebrating Valentine’s Day with 2, yes I said 2 muffin tin meals!!

For breakfast both Emily and Juliette had:

A Heart Shaped Waffle with Syrup, Yogurt and Blueberries and Grapes all in our Wilton Heart Silicone Baking Cups, 12 Count.

Emily and Juliette enjoying their Muffin Tin Breakfast.

For Dinner I surprised Emily with another Muffin Tin Meal

   

My dad got us these cute Heart Shaped Ravioli’s from our local Italian Deli and I made Emily Cesar Salad and put it in our Heart Muffin Cups.  She was so excited to have 2 muffin tin meals in one day!

stART ~ Who Wants a Valentine?

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read Who Wants a Valentine? , by Linda Lowery and Richard Keep.  This is a simple rhyming story about a little boy who does not want to be a part of all the Valentine’s festivities, until someone changes his mind.  This story is fun to read and has great cut paper illustrations. 

This week Emily did her art project with Aunt Christina.  She made a cute Heart Wreath that I thought went perfectly with this book!

To make the wreath they cut out pink hearts from construction paper.  Aunt Christina helped Emily right some Valentine’s Day words on the hearts.  Finally they glued them together to make a wreath.

Heart People

Last year we made a cute “Little Miss Valentine” which motivated this years heart person.  Instead of accordion paper arms and legs we used pipe cleaners and beads, for a great fine motor skill art project.

To make these I cut out a large heart out of pink foam and 4 smaller hearts from pink, white and red foam. Emily used markers to decorate the heart.  Then I used a hole puncher to make holes for the arms and legs.  Emily picked out what color pipe cleaner she wanted for the arms and legs.  We used a half a pipe cleaner for each arm and leg.  Once the pipe cleaners were attached she was able to use whichever beads she wanted to decorate the arms and legs.   Emily picked which color smaller hearts she wanted for the hands and feet and I helped her attach them, by twisting the pipe cleaner through the hole in the smaller hearts.  Finally, Emily glued on wiggly eyes and drew a nose and mouth.

She was very proud of her heart person and could not wait to show it to Daddy when he got home from work!

Love Bugs

When I saw this craft  on the PreKinders website I knew we had to make it!  Emily loves her little Love Bug.  Her favorite part is the movable wings. 

I am planning on using these for some very special Valentine’s Day cards this year.

Emily used our new heart punch to make the little purple hearts for the wings.  After a couple she told me I could help too :0)

 

I traced a large circle and a smaller circle onto a piece of red construction paper and another large circle onto a piece of pink construction paper.  Emily cut them all out all by herself!!

Emily glued the two red circles together to make the body of the bug.

Next she glued on the wiggly eyes.

I cut the pink circle in half and punched a whole through the top of the two pieces and the center of the body.  Emily put the brad through the holes to attach the wings.  Finally Emily glued the little purple hearts onto the wings of the bug.

I wrote “I LOVE YOU” and the date on the middle.

Little Miss Valentine

This cute little “Heart Girl” as Emily called her was a quick and cute craft with a fun fine motor twist!

I cut out a large heart for the body, two small hearts for hands, 2 half hearts for feet and 4 strips of construction paper for arms and legs.

First, Emily drew a face on the heart with a marker.

(I was going to have her use wiggly eyes, however her face came out SO good we thought it would be best to save them for another project!)

 

She folded the strips of paper for the arms and legs into accordions, and yes she did them all without asking for help, I was totally shocked!

Emily enjoys helping me fold towels and the napkins to help set the table for dinner so I thought she would like this, but I had no idea how much she would like it.

She glued the arms and legs onto the heart  and  then…

…added the hands and feet.

**Don’t you love all her jewels, I love that she wants to play dress up now it just looks to cute :0)

stART ~ Pooh Loves You

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

This week we read Pooh Loves You, by FranPosner. This is a cute rhyming story featuring Winnie the Pooh and the things that he loves.

I though it would be fun to make a collage of the things that Emily loves to go along with the story. Emily was happy to tell me all of the things that she loves. I thought it was cute that some of them were the same as Winnie the Pooh’s!!

Emily’s Love Collage

After reading the story I asked Emily what she loved, I wrote them down and then we searched for pictures of them on the computer. I also asked her what color paper she wanted. She said “Green because I love Green!”

I printed the sheet out and had Emily cut each picture out.

Next, she glued on a heart doilie and the pictures she cut out

I gave her some heart stickers to decorate it with too.

When she was all finished I wrote Emily Loves…. on the doilie and labeled each picture.

Valentine’s Day Sensory Tub

 

PomPoms and Glittery Sensory Fun!!

Emily loves her rice sensory tub.  Usually we only have rice and some shovels and buckets in it, but for Valentine’s Day I added pink, white, red and purple pom poms in a variety of sizes.  I also added some pink, silver and red sequins.   I am thinking about adding some small foam hearts too!

The girls at the rice tub. 

 

Why use a sensory tub?  At first I thought this same thing, but decided to give it a try.  Emily loved it from the second her little fingers touched all those little pieces of rice.  For Emily if found our sensory tub  great for practicing, scooping, pouring, sifting all while having a lot of fun.  There are also many other benefits too.  Here is a great recourse about sensory tables or tubs.

Do you use a sensory tub at your house?? 

If you do what do you usually put in yours??