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{Valentine’s Day} Activities for Kids: Puzzle Find

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 Valentine Day Card Puzzle Activity
 
Scavenger Hunts are lots of fun for my son, so I decided to create a Valentine’s Day puzzle find hunt for him. All around the house I hid brightly colored plastic hearts for him to find. I let him know that there were nine in total. We covered what parts of the house didn’t contain hearts before he set off on his find.. It made little sense for him to search in the bathrooms and closets if there weren’t going to be hearts found there.  I did give him a time limit. Sometimes my little boy can get distracted and forget what he was in the middle of doing. Giving him special Valentine’s Day themed bag helped him too.
It really didn’t take as long as I thought it would to find the hearts. He focused on the mission at hand. Even the hearts that had been hidden behind objects were discovered.
When he had all nine of the Valentine’s Day hearts, we sat down at the table to find out what they contained. I think he was hoping that they would be filled with candy rather than puzzle pieces. He did have fun putting this simple puzzle together.  The robot theme went over big with him. 

Would you like to plan a Valentine’s Day Puzzle Find of your own?

 
Valentine Day Card Puzzle Activity 


Here are the materials you will need:

Markers or Crayons
Plastic Heart Shaped Containers ( We used nine, because the puzzle had nine pieces.)
Puzzle Cards
Decorative Bag for Heart Collecting
I started by coloring the puzzle card. Coloring isn’t really my forte. I found that it was easier to color with crayons than markers. I am left handed and I smeared some of the marker on the first card I started on. The colors weren’t as bright that had been colored with crayon. If you are neat at coloring, you might want to try using markers.
Thankfully the puzzle pieces went into the heart shaped containers! If you are worried about them not fitting you could hide them in red, pink or purple Easter eggs instead. Small decorated bags could be used too.

Setting up boundaries as to where the hearts were hidden was important. Some children might get very frustrated about not finding hearts as they search and search. The younger the child participating in the Valentine’s Day Puzzle Find the smaller the area I would have them search.  My son is five and we used six rooms in our house. You also may want to consider whether the puzzle containers are out in the open or hidden behind objects. Younger children may not think about looking under or behind accessories in a room.
 
 Valentine Day Card Puzzle Activity


You may want to have reward them for finding all nine of the hearts. Heart shaped candy or a special surprise may be exciting if finding puzzle pieces in the hearts isn’t reward enough. 

Let me know if you try having a Valentine’s Day Puzzle Find with your kids. I would love to know how it goes.


Other Valentine’s Day posts from this site:


Valentine’s Day Learning Activities

Five Little Valentines Song and Craft

Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin

Deirdre Smith writes/owns JDaniel4’s Mom. After twenty years as an elementary school and technology resource teacher in Northern Virginia, she became a stay at home mom in upstate South Carolina. Her blog features ways she and her 5-year-old are exploring learning, crafting, creating healthy meals and living life to its fullest. Deirdre can also be found  on her blog’s FB page. You can also check her out on Google+.

 
 

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  1. This is such an awesome idea and I am sure Aarya would find it fun…even though he won’t be happy to find puzzle pieces 🙂

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