Heart Fun
Listen to song "You'll Be In My Heart" and make a collage of hearts
Instructions
- Play song “You’ll Be In My Heart” while doing this activity or Listen/Watch here
- Let the child choose a colored piece of paper.
- Show the child how to fold the paper and cut out a heart shape. Click here for directions in folding paper for heart shape
- Fold and cut many heart shapes
- Glue hearts onto a large sheet of paper (cut open brown paper bag or use poster board)
Simplify
If using scissors is difficult, ask the child to tear out the heart shape. You can also help a child with the cutting by placing your hand over his cutting hand while using the scissors or drawing the heart first so they can cut along the lines.
Doing activities while playing music encourages a child to use multiple parts of the brain.
Click here for heart templates
Extend
Encourage the child to cut out 9 hearts. Click here for heart templates or find directions for folding paper for heart shapes here. Write one letter on each of the hearts to spell the word V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E. As you say aloud the following poem, have the child point to the correctly lettered heart.
Will you be my V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E? If you do you surely know how happy I will be!
Sugar, spice and all things nice, that's what you are to me...
Will you be my V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E?
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
Why do we think of hearts when we think of love?
Tell me about something that made you smile today.
Materials
- Song "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins from album "Tarzan" or Listen/Watch here
- colored piece of paper
- scissors - blunt edge for children
- glue stick
- large sheet of paper/cut open brown bag or posterboard
Activity Resources
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Curriculum Plan Resources
Skills Focus
- Shape - Heart
- Color - Review
- Number - Six, 6
- Alphabet Letters - H, P
- Senses - Hearing
- Character Trait - Honesty
- Target Words - Good-by, Many, Match, Why
Monthly Proverb
If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
Did You Know?
"Children with below average language skills can make rapid improvements if their parents take simple steps to change the way they interact with them." University of Sydney
Books to Read
"Museum ABC"
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (Activity 11)
"My Very First Book of Shapes"
by Eric Carle (Activity 2)
"Big Red Barn"
by Margaret Wise Brown (Activity 8)
"My Very First Book of Shapes" VIDEO
by Eric Carle (Activity 2)
"Big Red Barn" VIDEO
by Margaret Wise Brown (Activity 8)
"Museum ABC" VIDEO
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (Activity 11)
Music Playlist
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
by Countdown Kids Album 100 All Time Children’s Favorites (Activity 10)
"SalveRegina - Antiphona (tonus monasticus) in Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginias"
Album Salve Regina Gregorian Chant by Benedictine Monks of the Abby of Saint-Maurice & Saint-Maur, Clervaux (Activity 21)
"You’ll Be In My Heart"
by Phil Collins Album Tarzan (Movie Soundtrack) (Activity 18)
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" VIDEO
by Countdown Kids 100 Silly Songs (Activity 10)
'SalveRegina - Antiphona (tonus monasticus) in Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginias" VIDEO
by Benedictine Monks of the Abby of Saint-Maurice and Saint -Maur, Clervaux (Activity 21)
"You'll Be In My Heart" VIDEO
by Phil Collins Tarzan Movie Soundtrack (Activity 18)
Monthly Materials List
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Fingerplay / Poems / Songs
Up Down Turn Around
(Activity 14 Month 8)
Up, down
Turn around.
Touch the sky,
And touch the ground.
Wiggle fingers
Wiggle toes
Wiggle shoulders
And say "hello"
Up, down
Turn around
Touch the sky,
And touch the ground.
Pat your belly
Blink your eyes,
Blow a kiss,
And say “good-bye “
I Need To Be Honest
(Activity 13 Month 8)
I need to be honest
My mom and dad say
And telling the truth
Is just one way!
Why be honest
I ask mom and dad.
You will feel your best
When the truth is always said.