Simple Math Game

I posted this activity last year but since I really like this game, as did C, I thought I would repost it.

All you need is a heart glued onto a piece of paper and some pom poms (or cotton balls, or any other small object)

C stood above the heart and dropped 3 pom poms. She then counted how many landed on the heart and how many landed off of the heart. We even counted how many landed on the carpet when that happened. It is a great beginning math skill game! You can make it as easy or hard as you want. Plus, it can easily be used for any day use by using different shapes.

Magnetic Hearts

 I cut out foam hearts using my heart hole punch. Then I hot glued a small magnet on the back. When they were ready, C put them on all on our fingerprint covered refrigerator.

She had fun sorting the hearts by color. We also counted them and made patterns.

Sensory/Activity Box

 

I made C the ever popular Valentine sensory box. I filled it with practically everything I could find in my collection of stuff that was white, red or pink. Along with some heart shaped erasers that are none of those colors. I even added a few other items after I took the picture above. While C was playing with it we discovered a few ways to play with the variety of materials inside, so it became more of an activity box than a sensory box.

 pom poms in an ice cube tray

 pom poms inside caps

 Tracing name with heart erasers

 Stacking a variety of lids

 hair ties on a pencil

 Flat marbles on foam hearts and lined up on a foam strip

 Flat marbles on the hole punch puzzle I posted about yesterday

 Pom Poms on top of foam blocks

 Straws on pipe cleaners

 Pipe cleaners inside of pegboard pieces. A few of them also have straws on them. I do have pony beads, but I didn't add those until after we did this.

There are probably several other ways to play with the box, time to go explore some more!

 

Hole Punch Puzzles

As I was punching out hearts with my heart shaped hole punch, I thought of this activity to use with the left over paper. I glued the heart holes on paper.

 C can put the hearts in the spaces. You cold also use buttons or flat marbles.

For this game, C just matched the colors.

Valentines Wreath #1

I am going to try and post 1 Valentine idea a day until February 14. 

This is a combination of a few ideas I saw online. But the main inspiration for making a heart wreath came from Fancy Nancy Heart to Heart

In the book Nancy makes a wreath of hearts.

 

I typed "love" in several fonts (copied and pasted over and over) in Word until it filled the entire page and printed it out. Then I watered down some red paint and C painted on the paper. I later added white so it would be red and pink, but it mostly ended up being pink. When the paint dried I cut  out several hearts. I cut out a circle from a cracker box and helped C glue the hearts on to make a wreath. We plan on making a few more wreaths, this one will be sent to one C's Grandparents.

 

Love printout

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