Literacy Ideas for a Fun Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day is such a friendly holiday, isn't it? Love, candy, cards… lots to like! And there are scads of ways to boost literacy skills. This week I’ll give suggestions for making cards and other crafty type things. Next week, I’ll suggest several ideas for other Valentine’s Day activities.

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Many kids love making cards. Of course, all you really need is to just put out a bunch of paper, doilies, glue, glitter… But if you want some other ideas, here are several to get started.

First, you need to know how to easily cut out hearts.

eHow

Cutting Out Hearts   This video shows how to cut out hearts, plus shows some ideas of what to do with them.

Artists Helping Children 

Magically Appearing Name Card   Ingenious!

Spoonful 

Valentine's Day Card Ideas  Several ideas.

Scratch and Win Card  I wish I'd thought of this! My students would have LOVED it!

Danielle’s Place

Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids  Cards, card holders and crafts

Ever wonder how I Love You is said in other languages? Just don’t ask me how to pronounce them!

Je t'aime French

Te amo Spanish

Wo ai ni Chinese (Mandarin)

Ik hou van jou Dutch

Ich liebe dich German

Ani ohev otach (male) Ani ohevet otcha (female) Hebrew

Volim te Croatian

Ai shite masu Japanese, female speech

Ai shiteru yo Japanese, male speech

Mi amas vin Esperanto

Amo-te Portuguese

Jag älskar dig Swedish

OTHER VALENTINE’S DAY CRAFTS

Artists Helping Children

Woven Heart Basket  There are 2 versions given - difficult and easy.

Valentine’s Day Chocolate Bar Wrapper A sweet idea…

Heart People  Consider adding speech bubbles!

Drawing and Making Animals Out of  Hearts  Definitely cute.

Valentine’s Day Peas and Toothpick Heart and Arrow Craft   Odd, but looks fun!

Martha  Stewart

Heart-Shaped Crafts  Click the arrows to see all 33 crafts – looks like lots of fun!

Do you have Valentine’s Day crafts that your family enjoys? Tell about them in the Comments Box!

Gail