Happy Valentines Day - Letter H is for Hearts Week

This week has been filled with hearts! We've been concentrating on the letter Hh (H is for hearts, after all!)

We started off our week making a heart shape guy.


Here's Bekah having fun with heart clappers. (I got these at our Dollar Tree).

We did a craft to the book, I Lost My Kisses.


Bekah has loved getting to use scissors. She was amazed to open up this paper and see that she had cut out a heart! She decorated it afterwards.

I know she's in two different outfits doing this one. We actually did this twice.


Here we are making a yummy treat with heart sprinkles.


Bekah did a sequence with hearts and pom poms.



There are some awesome heart printables at Home Grown Hearts that we used this week.
These are a few of them that we used:

Heart Shape searcher:

Letter H Magnet page (from www.makinglearningfun.com). I made these magnetic pom poms using Erin's directions here:

Heart Addition:

Upper and lowercase H matching:


Other Letter H Activities that we came up with:
We searched for the letter H (upper and lowercase) in magazines. When we found them, we would cut them out and glue them to this big letter H.



Using a hole punch. This was tough for her, but she kept at it!


This is an awesome Hot and Cold file folder game. We hadn't worked on this in awhile, so I took it out again. Bekah loved it even more than last time!

Happy Valentines Day!

Muffin Tin Monday - Hearts and a Craft

This week we're doing H is for hearts, so we did a heart shape muffin tin.

In Bekah's muffin tin, she had:
Grilled Cheese hearts, spinach salad with heart cucumber and homemade poppy seed dressing, heart salami, heart strawberries, and heart doughnut (from Krispy Kreme).

I was surprised that she had two bites of the doughnut and then was done with that. She loved the grilled cheese and the heart shaped strawberries the best!

To go along with our heart muffin tin we made a heart shaped guy. He turned out very cute and was simple to put together.
I drew a heart shape on the inside part of an old cereal box and Bekah went to town painting him red.

She also painted herself red!

Bekah then glued on the eyes and drew a mouth.

Then we used strips of red construction paper folded like an acordian for the arms and legs.

You can see what others are having at Muffin Tin Mom.

Sweetheart Candy Counting Game

I saw the idea for this sweetheart candy counting game at No Time For Flashcards. I picked our candies up at the dollar store and quickly traced some hearts with numbers 1-12 on a large piece of construction paper. Bekah had to put the correct number of candies on each heart.


Bekah did well with this, but to be honest, became quickly bored. However, we did it right before dinner and she was hungry, so that could be why it didn't last long!

Here's how far she got...pretty good for being hungry!