
Attractive Valentines
Make good use of old
valentines or those you find on sale after the holiday.
Attach the
valentines to self adhesive magnetic sheets; then cut them apart.
Use the magnetic valentines on your chalkboard or at a center on a metal
cookie sheet.
Have youngsters use the valentines for matching,
counting, sorting, or memory games.
Sweet Tic-Tac-Toe
Add a new twist to the
traditional game of tic-tac-toe with conversation heart candies.
To
prepare, make a game board by cutting out a large construction paper heart
and
drawing a tic-tac-toe grid in the center. Then laminate the
heart for durability.
Next, gather five pink conversation hearts and
five green conversation hearts.
Place the pink hearts in one snack
size resealable plastic bag and the green
hearts in another bag.
Invite a pair of children to the center and have each child
take a bag.
Direct each player to use his or her candy hearts to play tic-tac-toe
on
the gameboard. The game ends when a child places three of his hearts
in a row.
Postman,
Postman
Everyone gets to participate in this game involving a hidden valentine.
Choose
one child to be postman and give him or her the postman's hat.
(Red strip of
paper with pink heart that says Postman.) The postman must
hide his eyes while
you give another child a valentine to hide behind their
back. Then the postman
uncovers his eyes and faces his classmates
who say, "Postman, postman, where's
the mail?" The postman gets three
guesses to find out who is hiding the mail. If
he guesses correctly, he continues
as postman. If he guesses incorrectly, the
person with the mail becomes the postman.
Valentine Charades
At circle time have a basket with several hearts in it. On the back
of each heart
is written something for the children to do for example
touch your toes, hop on
one foot, sing your ABC's etc. Each child draws
out one heart and the
teacher will read it for preschoolers or help the
child read it and then the child
will do what the heart instructs. Go
around the circle till each child has several turns.
Heart Matching Game
Use wallpaper samples and make a heart matching game by
cutting
out 2 of each color or pattern of paper. These can be used as
they
are or turned into a file folder game and laminated.
Match the Hearts
Cut
heart shapes from construction paper. Cut each heart
shape in half using
different cuts, such as straight, zigzag, or curvy. On each heart half
shape,
draw a matching shape or numeral. Give each child a
construction paper
heart half. Encourage them to name the shapes or numerals on their halves.
Next, play music and have each child look for another child who has the
matching half of the construction paper heart. Stop the music and have
the pairs name their shapes or numerals. Repeat several times,
giving each child a different heart half each time.
Share My Heart
This game is similar to
musical chairs. To prepare, cut out a large
construction paper heart for each child. Laminate the cutouts for
durability.
Then randomly place the cutouts on the floor, To play, encourage children
to
walk around the hearts while you play some lively music. Then stop the
music and have all the kids find a heart to stand on. Begin the music
again,
remove one of the hearts. The next time the music stops, a child
must
share his heart with another child. Continuer in this manner removing a
heart
each round, until several children must share each heart. This heart-y
game
is a wonderful way for youngsters to form some heartfelt friendships.

Find the Heart
Materials Needed:
several different colored felt heart shaped pillows (very small) -- at
least one per child
Procedure:
Children "sleep" (close eyes) while music is playing. Teachers hide
hearts, then stop music. Children "wake up," then search for hearts.
Variation:
Children can take turns hiding hearts.
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I do not claim any of these as my own
ideas.
They are shared from friends and fellow group
members.
Some ideas found have been compiled from groups
through the yrs.
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