Fun Valentine's Day activities from Months of Music
by Karen Rupprecht & Pam Minor

The Valentine Card Shop Game

•    Choose five children to BE the Valentine cards and one child to be the card shopper.
•    Have the children playing the Valentine cards act out the Five Valentines song.
•    The shopper chooses one child at a time placing him or her over in a designated "mailbox" area.
•    At the end of the song, each child Valentine mails himself or herself to another child. The receiver becomes a Valentine, a new shopper is chosen and the game is replayed.

Will You Be My Valentine?

Materials: red and pink construction paper, glue, glitter, scissors, cut up doilies, lace, yarn, torn tissue paper, ribbon, and bits of fabric.

Method: For every Valentine card the teacher or child cuts a heart shape from construction paper. Glue on any of the materials assembled. Write "I love you" or any message on the back. Ask children to make several Valentines, one to take home and some for the group's "card shop."

Fun Valentine's Day Fingerplay: A Kiss

There's something in my pocket
(reach into pocket)
Could it be a moose?
Could it be a train with a bell and a caboose?
Could it be a snake or some sticky glue?
(put hands in pockets)
It's a kiss from me to you.
(blow kiss)

Make a Valentine Shake!

Ingredients:

•    5 strawberries
•    1/2 a banana
•    1 container strawberry yogurt
•    1 cup of milk

Put all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a special, fancy glass and top with whipped cream. Garnish with a sliced strawberry.

You will love this Valentine slurpy treat!

Miss Pennypack's Valentine Poem

Why should we have only one little day
To tell people we love them in a special way?
I send cards and flowers any time of year
To remind people that I hold them dear.
But my friends don't really need a gift...
Just a hug now and then and maybe a KISS!

Listen to a short sample of Five Valentines from Months of Music in the audio player, below.