Valentine Fun

   

     This post has taken WAY to long to be posted and there are several reasons why. The first big one is the fact that my kid came down with a fever Monday and then woke up Tuesday sick to his stomach. Wednesday a family emergency came up that kept me side tracked. Thursday we learned some confusing and sad news and then we had family visitors all week-end. Needless to say it was a very crazy week. We still learned things, but it was all haphazard. I will share with you the things we did get to do for this year's Vakentine's Day theme of the week, but to be honest I did not get many photos taken. We also focused on the letter Uu last week and the color red.

Books We Read
My u Soundbox by Jane Belk Moncure
The Story of Valentine's Day by Clude Robert Bulla (only the pages about St. Valentine)
Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion by Mo Willems
A Special Friend For Valentine's Day by Patricia Stone Martib
Red by Sharon Gordon
The Ugly Duckling by Polina Lovsin
Our Valentine Book by Jane Belk Moncure
Llama Llama Red Pajama
Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino
Valentine by Carol Carrick
My First Valentine's Day Book by Marian Bennet
Sea Urchins by Lola M. Schaefer

Songs We Sang
Up, Up, and Away In My Beautiful Balloon (youtube)
A Tisket A Tasket
I youtubed Valentine's Day Song Playist for kids and used those songs for us this time to make it a bit easier on me during the wacky week last week.

Activities We Did
Colored our uppercase and lower case Uu coloring pages
Introduced Uu vocab words from our picture dictionary
Played keep it up with some balloons
Did a red painting using different shades of red and then finished with some red glitter
Threw plastic balls underhanded
Played with red playdough
Made a handprint valentine place mat
Used utensils to play with playdough and shaving cream
Played in the sink and used red food coloring in the water
Worked on some valentines.
Made Valentine cupcakes
Made a heart collage
Played indoors with the umbrella
Worked on the Uu vocab coloring page
Did some upside down fun learning how to do handstands...
Had a valentine's day dance party....
Played I spy Red

What fun activities did yall do with your littles for valentine's day? Can you think of other fun Uu activities or ways to make learning colors fun???