12 Books for Valentines with Activities

Here are some lovely books for Valentine's Day for your children with some beautiful activities to go with the books!! Click on the photos to see more about each of the activities.

  

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Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond seems to be the most popular valentine book. One day it rains different sized hearts.  A little girl catches them and then makes Valentines out of them for her animal friends.
                                                

 

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Giveaway - 2 Melissa & Doug Trunkis

Up for grabs today is 2 adorable Trunkis (shown above) courtesy of Melissa & Doug! Keep reading to find out how to win them. This Trunki is perfect for vacations!! Children can scoot along on their luggage through the airport. Features include...

• A Pack, Carry or Ride Suitcase for kids
• Durable, Sturdy, Strong, Holds 5 gallon capacity
• Airline carry on approved
• doubles as a great pull-along riding toy, too.
• Holds up to 75 lbs. 
• includes a tow strap, carry handles, secure catches, integrated wheels and stabilizers to prevent toppling over.

There are designs on the cases such as stripes on the orange, to look like a tiger and polka dots to the red case to remind you of a lady bug. They also sell fun stickers to create faces as well and kids really enjoy making the Trunki their own. At home, Trunki may be used as a convenient kid-friendly storage bin or for some great pretend play! 

Melissa & Doug have graciously donated these trunkis for The Heart Project. Have you contributed to The Heart Project yet? Donate $5 to the American Heart Association and get The Heart Book as a free gift!

US $5 Donation to AHA

[More information available at The Heart Project ]

Here's your chance to win a Trunki from Melissa & Doug! 

Enter the Melissa & Doug Trunki Giveaway at any of the following blogs:
[entries are all combined from participating blogs] 

hands on : as we grow
The SEEDS Network

Toddler Approved

Putti Prapancha

Share & Remember

Broken Treasures

Living Montessori Now

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Also, there are auctions for 4 Trunkis with a Teddy Bear that Melissa & Doug so graciously donated for The Heart Project. You can try your luck there too!

Disclaimer: We did not recieve any compensation for this post. Melissa & Doug generously gave trunkis to host giveaways and auction in support of our "Heart Project"

Sticker Resist Painting and Printing!!

This Sticker Resist Painting is one wonderful activity which even the smallest of kids will enjoy!

I was lucky to have a sneak peak into some of the wonderful photos submitted to the Heart Book. One of those was this Heart Sticker Resist Painting by Play Dr Mom. I loved it a lot and knew Putti would love the process too, as it is so much similar to the Tape Resist painting we had done in the past. So, we got to work immediately and did ours even before I saw her post. We did ours on white cardstock and used the craft foam stickers left over from "Hearts tree", while she has done them on a canvas. 

We have been having a lot of fun with the $1 heart foam stickers, sorting by shapes, color and counting etc. First Putti put the Heart Foam Stickers on the cardstock where ever she wanted. 

She then got busy covering the whole cardstock with paint. She is now at the stage she loves covering the whole page, leaving no white gaps!! 

 Once she was done painting the whole thing, I was about to move it to dry, when she asked for a sheet of paper, which she pressed it down on her painted cardstock...

 Pulled it off....

 To make a beautiful Mono print!! Which reminds me I haven't shared our any mono print ideas..

She did not want to stop with one. For the next one, I suggested she use the heart stickers with arrows through them and the double hearts etc. And she obliged and repeated the process of sticking the stickers, painting all over and doing a mono print!!

Here are the two gorgeous prints she made !! So glad she took this extra step all by herself:)

 After the paint dried, she loved pulling them off and sticking them onto another paper. I gave this to catch any paint stains from the sticker getting on the table. They did not stick too well, but atleast our table did not get any paint stains:)

 In the next one, I gave her a sheet with one of her hand tracing and coloring that she had done sometime earlier. She stuck the pulled stickers onto this and we had another handprint tree:))

 Well, here are our two lovely sticker resist paintings!!

This is part of The Valentine Ideas, another collaborative project from an amazing group of kids' bloggers :

Mama Pea Pod, Let Kids Create, My Creative Family, Hands on: as we grow, La Dolce Vita: The Sweet Life,  AngeliqueFelix.com, The Golden Gleam, Teach Preschool, Critters and Crayons, Living at the Whitehead Zoo, The Iowa Farmer's Wife, Nurturestore, Kitchen Counter Chronicles, The Chocolate Muffin Tree, Jamie's Jumble, The Outlaw Mom Blog, Mama Smiles, The Mommies Made Me Do It, Dinosaurs and Octopuses, Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas, Toddler Approved, Messy Kids, Rainy Day Mum, JDaniel4sMom, Glittering Muffins, Red Ted Art, Mommy and Me Book Club, Putti Prapancha, Dilly-Dali Art, Creative Connections for Kids, Mommy Labs, De tout et de rien: Activités pour le Préscolaire, Imagination Soup.net, Rockabye Butterfly, Classified: Mom, Kids Creative Chaos, A Mom with A Lesson Plan, PlayDrMom, RainbowsWithinReach, Living Montessori Now, Curly Birds, Growing A Jeweled Rose, The Home Teacher, A Little Learning For Two, Sun Hats and Wellie Boots, The Imagination Tree, Mummy Mummy Mum, Critters and Crayons, La-La's Home Daycare, Come Together Kids, Tinkerlab, Dirt and Boogers,Multiple Mummy.


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