Valentine cards Archives

Valentines Day Cards with Penguins

January 23, 2020 By Deirdre

What fun it will be for your children to share these Valentine’s Day cards with their friends. The cards display cute and whimsical penguins! Each of the cards displays a positive message. Your children’s friends will enjoy finding a card that shares something nice in their decorated box or bag.

Downloading Your Valentine’s Day Cards

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First, you can download the Free Printable Penguin Valentine’s Day Cards
Second, there are two versions of the cards therefore you can decide which card will work best for your child. One feature areas to write who the card is from and who the card is to. The other card displays only who the card is from. Your children won’t have to think about who gets what card if they don’t have a specific child’s name on them. They can just give a card to each child in their class.
Third, you can print the cards out onto copy paper or white card stock. While copy paper is cheaper, the cards printed out on card stock will be more durable.

Getting the Cards Ready for School

While children can take the cards to school and pass them out on their own, you can attach something to the cards.

Here are some fun things you could attach to the cards:

First, you can punch a hole in the top and the bottom of the card. Then you can thread a blue lollipop through the holes.

Second, you purchase a bag of penguin erasers. Then you can tape an eraser to each card.

Third, you could buy glittery wood pencils. Then they could be attached or threaded through a card.

If you are looking for cards with a different theme, below you will find some other cards that I have made.

First, there is a card that features a heart and an electric current.

Next, there is a two-sided card that displays. This card displays a LEGO head.

Finally, there is a Despicable Me Minion card.

Heart Tangram Printable Valentine Cards

January 22, 2016 By Deirdre

While kids love to get Valentine cards that have a candy treat attached to them, non-candy Valentine’s Day cards are fun to get too. This set of printable Valentine cards comes with card with a friendly not mushy message. There is also a small set of tangram shapes that can be attached to the printable Valentine cards.

There are probably many ways that you can share these printable Valentine cards. I chose to punch a whole in the corner of the card and the tangrams. Then tie them together with a piece of yarn. Knowing that I was going to do that I left a border on one of the edges of the tangrams. The tangram sets will tuck behind the printable Valentine cards when JDaniel passes them out at school. I have twisted the tangram set up so you can see what it looks like attached to the card.

Tangram Valentines Set

Another way you could share the tangram set and the card would be to put them in a Wilton Clear Tall Treat Bags. Both the printable Valentine cards and the tangram set could be cut to their borders or edges. Then they would be placed in the bag.

Hint:

I printed out the tangram set onto red copy paper. The Valentine cards were printed out onto white card stock. I thought they looked more festive that way. You could print them both out on white card stock if you like.

Why didn’t I put a place to the child receiving each cards name?

I have found that it is easier to pass out printable Valentine cards or the store bought cards when they don’t have who they are going to on them. The child bringing in the cards to school just has to place one card in each student’s card container. It can take awhile for children to go back and forth around the room passing out cards with specific names on them. Kids seem to be more excited about getting a card from everyone in their class rather than having every card have their name on it anyway.

Tangram Valentine Printable

Download the Tangram Valentines Set

Here are some other printable Valentine cards found here on JDaniel4’s Mom:

Printable “You are one in a Minion” Cards

Printable Lego Valentine Cards

Penguin-Themed Valentines

Bonus

This set also includes a large set of tangrams and a heart pattern work space! Here is more about how to explore those printables later.

Read.Explore.Learn.-If You’ll Be My Valentine

January 27, 2012 By Deirdre

Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.

Steps:

- Link your activity below.

- Please place the Read.Explore.Learn. a badge on your post or create a link back to this meme.

- Please try to visit at least three of the other people that have placed links below and leave a comment. I will visit each of you and leave a kind comment.

- If you are not linking up an activity and are just visiting, please try to stop by a few of the links below.

My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

JDaniel is very much into rhyming words. He loved the rhyming poems in

I love how the card is shown on one page of the book and the memory that inspired it is on the opposite page.

What did we do?

Craft- Valentine’s Day Cards

We received tons of political mailings right before the South Carolina primary. I decided they would be great for creating Valentine’s Day cards for JDaniel’s sleepy-time friends and robots.

I put out the mailings, markers, stickers, and crayons to make the cards.

Pretend Play- Valentine’s Day Post Office

While JDaniel was a preschool, I converted his McDonald’s counter into a post office. I placed post office signs on most of the McDonald-related ones and put some stamps (stickers) into the register.

One of our reusable bags was labeled as a mailbag. JDaniel was able to use the bag to deliver his cards to his toys.