Sunny Sprouts by Miss Jane

If you’re looking for a fun activity to celebrate Valentine’s day with your child, here is the list for you! This list is specifically for fine motor practice, but if you’re looking for gross motor, language and literacy, math and science, or social-emotional activities, we’ve got you covered, too!

These activities correspond with the following DRDP measures:

COG 1: Spatial Relationships

Child increasingly shows understanding of how objects move in space or fit in different spaces

COG 3: Number Sense of Quantity

Child shows developing understanding of number and quantity

COG 7: Shapes

Child shows an increasing knowledge of shapes and their characteristics

COG 8: Cause and Effect

Child demonstrates an increasing ability to observe, anticipate, and reason about the relationship between cause and effect

LLD 7: Concepts About Print

Child shows an increasing understanding of the conventions and physical organization of print material and that print carries meaning

PD-HLTH 4: Fine Motor Manipulative Skills

Child demonstrates increasing precision, strength, coordination, and efficiency when using muscles of the hand for play and functional tasks

VPA 1: Visual Art

Child engages, develops skills, and expresses self with increasing creativity, complexity, and depth through two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual art

1. Follow Your Heart by Happy Toddler Playtime

This is a great fine motor, scissor practice activity! Children “follow their hearts” by cutting following a dotted and heart line.

2. Pom Pom Painting by Tips from a Typical Mom Blog

Create beautiful heart paintings by using pom poms and clothespins!

3. Lacing Hearts by Our Kid Things

With this activity, children lace yard through holes in cardboard hearts to create lovely designs!

4. Heart Gluing by Playdough to Plato

Allow children to strengthen their hand muscles and practice their hand-eye coordination with this fun gluing activity.

5. Heart Fine Motor Activity by Early Learning Ideas

Complete with a free template, create patterns within a heart with hole punches!

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