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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