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FEBRUARY FUN!

Love is in the air and children truly enjoy the excitement of singing songs, exchanging valentines, enjoying a party and sharing HUGS, HUGS, HUGS!

A great classroom project is to invite the children to cut out different colored hearts and paint them. Messages can be added and or the children' names to display. This tree can be bulletin board size or construction paper size. It can also be a class project and each child cuts and paints a heart for everyone in the class and they make an individual tree filled with names and messages.

VALENTINE TREE

Will you be my VALENTINE, VALENTINE, VALENTINE?
Will you be my VALENTINE?
I LOVE YOU!

YES I'll be your VALENTINE, VALENTINE, VALENTINE!
YES I'll be your VALENTINE!
I LOVE YOU TOO!

Teach the children this short song .
 This project is a great take home and school connection. Make this a couple of days before Valentine's Day and send it home for the children to use and sing with their parents on Valentine's Day. Type the song and glue it to the back of the colored paper plate.

                                                                 VINNIE & VALERIE VALENTINE

MATERIALS:
3 small red and 3 small pink paper plates
2 craft sticks
Glue
Yarn
Markers

Wiggly Eyes
Stapler

Cut out a heart from the middle of one of the red and pink paper plates (foam plates do not work well). Add wiggly eyes, yarn or marker hair, lips and nose. Glue the heart to the end of the craft stick. (about one inch only so the stick is long enough).

Cut a paper plate so the largest piece will cover your heart on the stick. Staple or glue the paper plate to the whole paper plate. Leave a 2 inch opening at the bottom of the plate to insert the craft stick. Decorate the white side of the half plate and the child's name can be added. Make a Valentine puppet for each child in your room and let them sing the simple song to each other. Invite the boys to sing to the girls and visa/versa. Send this project home and tell the children to sing to their parents using the puppet. This project will fit in any budget. It develops small muscle control, language development, social skills and much more.

The MAIL BOX – each child should decorate their own mail box.  They can use a shoe box, photo box, mail box or paper bag designated as a mail box.  The children make Valentines for each child in the room and they become the mailman.  This idea is centuries old but still loads of fun.