We have been having some Valentine’s Day

With these four fun activities for all the family

If you are spending the day with your little ones today

Why not try one, two or all of these

You can buy all you need in Lidl for sure

And probably from most supermarkets

Here they are

Four fantastic fun activities

For a family Valentine’s Day

Sweetie STEM

For this activity you will need

Jelly Tots

Marshmallows

Jelly heart sweets

Toothpicks

This construction activity is great fun

I showed the children all the materials

And asked them to have a go at creating something

All three immediately got stuck in

Starting with simple structures

Such as magic wands

Moving on to stick men

2D shapes

And then starting to build solid structures

William used mainly marshmallows and sticks

To make his awesome space station

Esther mostly used the jelly hearts

And the Jelly Tots

To make her people and animals

Her magical wands and hiking hearts

Bea enjoyed threading the coloured sweets

On to the spiky sticks

We had great fun

And once the activity was finished

I did let the children eat some of the sweets

Heart Shaped Pasta Play

For this activity you will need

Heart shaped pasta

Spaghetti

Playdough

Pipe cleaners

We started off with some simple threading

Threading pasta hearts on to sticks of spaghetti

We made a playdough base to hold the spaghetti up

Bea loves threading

It is great for developing her fine motor control

As the pasta was two colours

We were able to explore pattern

And practise our counting too

After a while we decided to try

Printing with the pasta

Pushing different parts of the pasta shapes

Into the playdough

To see what prints and patterns were left behind

We then spent a long time

Making pasta jewellery

Esther joined us for this too

And made some very pretty pasta creations

This activity was so simple

And such fun

We saved some of the pasta

Which we cooked up with Pesto

And ate for lunch

Valentine Monograms

For this activity you will need

Plain paper

A marker pen

Love heart stickers

This is really easy to set up

And easy to adapt for any age or occasion

Making monograms with stickers

Each child made their initial

First they wrote it on the paper

Then adorned it with colourful stickers

After doing letters

We made some flowers

And some Valentine pictures

Why not see what you can do?

Love Monsters

This activity was inspired by the picture book

Love Monster

We decided to make our very own monsters to love

For this activity you will need

Playdough

Pipe cleaners

Pom poms

Spaghetti

Pasta hearts

Googly eyes

All the children loved this activity

(We had cousins over to play)

They were really creative with their monsters

Mixing colours and materials

We had love birds and love blobs

Monsters of all shapes and sizes

A lovely way to talk about love

How everyone can love and be loved

No matter their colour, shape or size

Everybody needs somebody to love!

Hope you have enjoyed a peek at our activities for Valentine’s Day

Do let us know if you give any of them a try