Hug Machine

Have you read the Hug Machine? I have fallen in love with this delightful, funny, and oh so sweet book! This book is the perfect read aloud for the month of February. After reading the book, be sure to do this cute craft! Grab the craft here.

Valentine's Day Cards

Celebrating Valentine's Day at school is always so much fun! Giving and receiving Valentine's Day Cards is so exciting. Here are some fun valentines for the kids to exchange at school or give to your students. The best part is you only need your printer for these cards and maybe a trip to the grocery store!

Click the pictures below to download the free Valentine's Day Cards

Hug Machine

I love finding new books to add to my collection! Hug Machine by Scott Campbell is a cute read aloud for the month of February. My class loved reading it. After reading the story we followed up with this cute and simple craft. You can download it for free by clicking the pictures below! Hope you enjoy it.

 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! I just wanted to share some cute valentines my sister made for her school girls to pass out.

Photos by Lauren Zalit
I passed out the lips and moustache to my little valentines today.

Go here and here to download the printables.

My kids had a blast passing out and collecting all their valentines today. Bag inspired by Julie Lee.

Happy V Day!

Were your kiddos CRAZY today? Here are some of the activities we did today.
We graphed the colors of conversation hearts in our box. Head on over to The Inspired Apple to grab this activity. Luckily someone brought candy hearts to pass out.

Then we graphed the letters in our conversation heart. I bought a huge box of stick on hearts to use for different activities.

Click to download

graph labels

And if you still have conversation hearts lying around here is another activity. Give each child a heart and have them answer the questions.

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How many letters are in your heart?

And oh yes, I had to make these darling valentines for my kiddos. Big hit, they loved it!

For our party we passed out valentines. Each child decorated a box with their family at home. It was fun seeing what they came up with. Check this box out!

I had two stations, cookie decorating and a craft. The cookies looked delicious.

Let the countdown to Spring Break begin!!

Valentine fun!

We’ve been learning Valentine words and reading some fun Valentine books. I bought Babbling Abby’s mini unit and it is CUTE! Find it here.

I found these cute matching cards at Target. So I turned a set into Valentine number match.

This border was in the dollar section at Target (I love the dollar section)! This is what I did with the left over border. They can count out the correct number of hearts or sort by letters on the conversation heart.

And another number/number word matching activity.



Time for bed :)

v day gifts

Okay, I know you are going to love this. My kiddos went crazy for them last year. The girls over at blonde designs have included the patterns and labels to make lips and mustache lollipops.


 {via blonde designs}

I also take a class picture and have it made into a photo card. I use Walgreens. You can pick up your prints in store the same day. And everyone gets a valentine from the teacher, of course!
One Charming Party created these adorable valentines.


{via one charming party}
Hurry and print your class set.

looking ahead to valentine’s day

Have you checked out one charming party? You should, it is AMAZING! Our school only lets us have 3 holiday parties, Valentine’s Day, being one of the them. This is what my class does (all from one charming party). I have the kiddos rotate around two activity stations {cookie decorating and a craft}.
cookie decorating

{via one charming party}
my room mom bakes heart shaped sugar cookies for each child to decorate with their own bowl of icing and candies.
Craft

{via one charming party}
I am loving this Valentine craft and it is so easy to make.