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Source: Little Bins for Little Hands
What you’ll need:
How to do it:
1. Make a saturated salt solution.
A saturated salt solution is one where the solution has absorbed as much salt as it can hold, and any additional salt added will not dissolve but instead remain undissolved at the bottom of the container.
To make your saturated salt solution, you will need hot water - you can either let the tap water run and get really hot, or just boil some water.
Slowly add salt until the water can’t hold anymore. The hotter the water is, the more salt you will be able to add, and the more salt you add, the more saturated the solution (which is the goal!)
2. Place your construction paper hearts on a tray or dish and pour just enough of the saturated solution to cover them. It’s ok if there is some leftover salt in your container!
3. Set the hearts covered in the saturated solution aside and watch!
What’s happening?
As the salt solution cools and the water evaporates, the sodium and chlorine atoms that make up the salt are no longer separated by water molecules. So, they are able to bond together and eventually form a cube-shaped crystal.
Source: Little Bins for Little Hands
What you’ll need:
How to do it:
Just mix all the ingredients together and you are ready to start making bubbles! Just dip the heart shaped cookie cutters or any other accessories into the mixed solution, and then blow!
Source: Messy Little Monster
What you’ll need:
How to do it:
1. Start with all the candy hearts in a bowl
2. Grab a paper plate to do the activities on
3. With the permanent marker, draw the math equation on the paper plate (+ or - and =)
Plus, there are plenty other math activities that you can do with candy hearts
Source: Rainy Day Mum
With X’s and O’s to mark your spot, tic-tac-toe is already Valentine’s themed!
What you’ll need:
Source: Pre-K Pages
What you’ll need
How to do it:
No steps or instructions! Just let the children touch, feel, explore and play with everything in the sensory bin.
Source: PreKinders
Get everyone singing and dancing with these fun Valentine’s day themed songs.
Source: Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
What you’ll need
How to do it:
1. Cut the tinfoil into large hearts
2. Let the kids paint!
You can let the children paint with paintbrushes or other objects like Q-tips, or stamps. Also, let the little ones try mixing colors and learn what other colors they can create.
The foil is a nice change from just construction paper, as it adds more sensory play to it. The texture of the foil is slippery, but also, the creases can create bumps, and different elevations.
Fun-A-Day also had great messy play activities for Valentine’s day!
Guidance from the Danish Health Ministry, translated in full to English.
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The full recommendations from a working group of over 70 nursery chains in the UK.
Please note: here at Famly we love sharing creative activities for you to try with the children at your setting, but you know them best. Take the time to consider adaptions you might need to make so these activities are accessible and developmentally appropriate for the children you work with. Just as you ordinarily would, conduct risk assessments for your children and your setting before undertaking new activities, and ensure you and your staff are following your own health and safety guidelines.
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