By Kristen Follis
Valentine’s is just around the corner. Here’s some cute Valentine themed books we love at Little Wonders as well as some easy, fun Valentine crafts. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Books:
The Night Before Valentine’s Day (Age: 3-5)
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3oSIOg6
Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! (Age: 1+)
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2NgKMZU
Little Blue Truck’s Valentine (Age: 3+)
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3bUgo1A
Where is Baby’s Valentine (Age: 0+)
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2XQ93b1
Stamp Hearts
Fold empty rolls into hearts. Set up paint for stamping new heart stamps. Let them stamp away! Great for Valentine card making.
Materials:
Empty toilet paper roll or empty paper towel roll
Red or any color paint
Paper
Paper Stained Glass Heart
Cut 2 matching hearts out of the contact paper. Cut tissue paper into squares or use precut tissue paper. Pull backing off of one of the contact paper hearts so sticky side remains. Have the kids put tissue paper all over the sticky heart. Once they are done, pull the backing off the other heart and put it on the back of the tissued heart. Hang in the window to show off the new artwork!
Materials:
Any color tissue paper (Pre-cut on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3piEoza)
Contact paper (Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qysm5c)
Scissors
Playdough heart cookies
Make homemade playdough (see recipe below) or use premade playdough. I made pink LW homemade playdough. Place playdough, rolling pin, cookie cutter and pretend or real sprinkles on a tray and let your little baker make some cookies!
Materials:
Playdough (Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qHilT8, https://amzn.to/3ixCJn3)
Cookie Cutter (Amazon: https://amzn.to/3sO4iwS)
Rolling Pin, any size
LW Play doh recipe: Mix in saucepan: 1 cup white flour, ½ cup salt and 2t cream of tartar.
Add and mix with above: 1 cup water, food coloring, 2t oil. Cook over medium heat and stir until mixture forms a ball, about 3-4 min. Turn out and knead on wax paper. May be stored in Ziploc plastic bag.