The first 14 days of February were all about love. Here are some of the love and heart inspired projects we did.
Potato Print
We cut potatoes into heart shapes and then had the children stamp with red, pink, and purple tempera paint.
3-D Hanging Hearts
After the students decorated construction paper hearts with tissue paper scraps, we glued 3 of the heart together. This made a nice 3-D heart decoration.
Stained Glass
We cut a heart shape out of 2 pieces of construction paper (front and back) to make the frame. One of the frames was placed onto wax paper and liquid starch was painted inside the heart shape as well as on the edges of the heart cutout. Students overlapped pink, red, and white pieces of tissue paper to create the stained glass effect. Once the starch dried, the frame was carefully peeled off and the backing was added.
Valentine's Day Collage
Valentine's Day Bags
Each student decorated a white lunch with markers, heart shapes, and stickers.
Valentine's Day Cooking Project
For our special holiday cooking project we made heart shaped pizzas! In the morning the students helped to make the pizza dough from scratch. Once it was done rising they shaped their dough into heart shapes. Homemade pizza sauce, cheese, and mini-peperoni was added by each student.
We labeled each pizza with a slip of wax paper and popped them into the oven for 5 minutes to bake. Here is what they looked like before the students ate them. It was a very yummy lunch made with lots of love.
Our Valentines bags all filled up with love notes and sweet treats.
'V' is for Vase
We learned a lot about the letter V during Valentine's Day week, especially since it just happened to be the letter of the week. Here was our creative way to make a vase full of flowers using the letter.
