Heart Rainbow & Heart Hunt

I was going to have C make another wreath for her other grandma (which is why my wreath post is called wreath #1) But, at Awana this week, she made this (C added more hearts at home)

 I am annoyed with my pictures, they are rotating on their own, anyone know how to fix this? They aren't rotated in my picture folders

So, I decided to have her make a heart rainbow instead. I eventually helped her with gluing, but she put all the hearts on the rainbow by herself.

I also hid hearts around the house for her to find.
(I think we will do this again, but I will write a simple activity to do on the hearts - like read a book, or jump up and down 10 times, or sing the ABCs)

Long Distance Hug

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This year I wanted to send long distance family members a special Valentine from our girls, but I wasn't sure what.  Until I remembered an idea I used a few years ago with my former students (similar to this).  But I didn't want to fold up that much paper into an envelope, so I used ribbon instead.

I measured the arm spans of both girls and cut ribbon the same length (C and I did some comparing with the 2 sizes and measured with the tape measure)

I helped the girls paint hand prints, I cut them out and glued onto the ends of the ribbon.

The grandparents, both near and far, enjoyed receiving their special hugs.

**Not brave enough to use paint with your child?
Trace their hand on construction paper instead**

Check it out, we made this project again
Long Distance Hug Revisited

Tissue Paper Hearts

I wanted to brighten up our wintery view, so I had C put tissue paper of various Valentine colors on the sticky side of contact paper.

When we were done (I ended up having to help her out), I cut hearts out and put them in our window.

Kiss Necklace

After I saw the sweetest necklace on Serving Pink Lemonade, I wanted to make one too. I used Hershey Kisses instead of Starbursts and used tulle instead of plastic wrap.

We made 2, one for each of C's Awana teachers (who are also friends of ours)

Sorting Stickers

I didn't get around to posting a Valentine idea yesterday. It was a busy day, plus we live in WI and there was this little thing called the Super Bowl :) 

Today's activity is pretty simple

C sorted 3 different colors of stickers by placing them on 3 heart cutouts. When she was done, she said one was for me, one was for Daddy and the other for J.