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When I was in school, we would all make Valentine’s Day boxes. We would each bring in treats or cards to put in everyone’s box. I loved getting to see what I got in my box each year. This is a fun idea I will do in my classroom!

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This would be a fun little project for pre-k. If you wanted to also add a little quote or a fun fact about President's Day on the paper. That would be fun too.

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For presidents day, I would take a picture of my students and we would make these cute "If I were president...." crafts.

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For Valentine's Day the activity I would choose would definitely be a fine motor skills activity. So the students would start out with a piece of red or pink piece of paper that has a heart shape lined out for them to cut. They would get scissors and they could cut out the heart shape. The heart would also have holes precut into the edges. When they get done cutting out the heart shape, they get to cut off a piece of yarn to use to thread through the heart.

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For Valentine's Day I would do this project with Kindergarten aged kids and younger. Not only is it cute but it helps develop fine motor skills.

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love this project i do with the kids for valentine’s day!!

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For Valentine's Day I read the book "Love Monster". Before I read it to them I told them to remember what happened in the story because they were going to draw a version of what they thought the monster looked like. After they finished their picture I asked them what the picture was. They were excited to show their parents the picture of their monster.

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For Valentine's Day, I would bring in the ingredients for cookies and have all the children participate in making them. We would make or draw something special for the child's parents. Then we would pass out valentine cards.

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I would bake cupcakes and make valentines for each child and then we would have a craft to do and play a game

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For Valentines Day I would have the children do a "Secret Valentine" - kind of like a secret Santa, but we would make cards for our person and then i would ask them to get their secret person 1 type of candy they think that person would like. We would also do traditional valentine's cards for everyone in the class, but I think this would be a great way for each kid to feel a little extra special for the class time.

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For Valentines's Day I would bake 48 heart shaped sugar cookies for the kids to decorate. I would have pink, red, and white icing for the cookies, so the children can decorate them. I would also have sprinkles, and red sugar colored sprinkles.

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For presidents day, i would like the kids to make a president mask/beard. I think it would be a nice craft and also give the chance to be goofy.

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For Presidents Day I will have children make a wreath like this that they can hang on their door or their wall. I will make the streamers the length of their height that they are. I would also have the plates cut out for them and streamers, but everything else I would let them do themselves.

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I also did this craft with my daycare class on Valentines day. The children got to take it home to their parents as a gift for Valentines day.

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I made this ball drop game for my day care class's Valentines party on Friday. They had a lot of fun. I cut holes out of a box the size of each sensory ball, they had to push a ball through the hole. My next step is going to be to color each hole the same color as each ball so they can learn to match the ball color to the hole color. The balls are also sensory balls which makes them fun for the children to play with. I decorated the box for Valentines day but I'm going to take the construction paper off and be able to use it for a fine motor skills activity and color matching activity any time. The age group of my class is ten to fifteen months old.

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I think a fun actives for the young students would be to get a "10 things I love about you" activity and have them tell me what they love about their mommies or daddies or whoever they want to give it to.

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I think it would be a fun idea to have the students bring in a family or friend that is a veteran and for students that do not have a family member or friend who is a veteran I would put these students into groups with the other Veterans. I would have us all sit in a circle and the students can introduce their family member or friend and tell us about them. I would then have an art activity planned where each student would get a red heart and they would decorate it into a flag. I would give them white stripes and blue stars that they would get to glue on the heart. Last week at my daycare we had students bring in their family and friend veterans and I thought this was a very good activity, and it went very smoothly.

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I think it would be fun to have the children cut stars out of red, white and blue construction paper and then paste them into a circle to form a wreath. They could also sprinkle them with glitter if they wanted. While making the wreaths, it would be nice to talk to the children about any veterans they might know or have in their family. Then I would let the children decide if they wanted to take their wreath’s home, give to a local veteran that they might know, or even take to a local VA hospital.

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If the teacher is willing to get with an organization that helps Veteran's in the area, having the children draw personal "Thank Yous" for them is a great way to show the appreciation we have for them. Asking parents if they know Veterans in their neighborhood and having the children go to their house and thank them to their face, and maybe offer to help them with some chores if they need it could be another way to show appreciation. I think that schools who still do Veterans Day programs and have Veterans come to the school and have the kids preform songs is an awesome way to say thanks!!

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We have done a few different activities for Veteran’s Day in the past with younger kids. One activity is simply talking about what Veteran’s Day means with the kids. Younger kids don’t always know what this day is for, so talking about what it means can be a good activity with the kids. Another thing we have done is make cards for Veteran’s Day to hang up or give to veterans. This is special to veterans and even more special if kids have relatives who are veterans that they can give the cards to. One last activity we have done with older kids is have kids bring in their family members who are veterans to talk with the kids. This is very personal and special to the kids and their families. There could be food or a lunch following this activity for everyone.

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My grandfather is a veteran, so growing up, understanding the service the men and women gave for the freedom of us all was important. An activity I would do growing up was create care packages with goodies and a special message of thanks and we would drop them off to the VA hospital in the Chicagoland area.

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I think having older students go to the homes of veterans and help them do things that need done is a good idea. I know that all veterans aren't older but some don't have time to get everything done like yard work. It is a small way to show gratitude for the things they did for our country. Younger students can make cards or colors pictures for the veterans that can be delivered by the older students.

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Something I have always thought was neat is that when I was a kid we would draw pictures and make thank you cards and send them to local veterans and sometimes deployed soldiers.

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One of the things that our Elementary school does for Veterans day is our High School serves the veterans breakfast and they use homemade placemats that the elementary school kids had made. They usually say "Thank You" for your service. I know when my kids were little they enjoyed making them and my dad and both sets of Grandpa's enjoyed trying to find the kids placemats.

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Something that always goes along with Veteran's Day are poppies. People pass them out at the grocery store, at the 4-way stop in my hometown, and at the Veteran's Day assembly. Children might not know that the poppy is a symbol of this day. Help kids learn more about the significance of the poppy in connection to Veteran's Day by making these coffee filter poppies!
Just paint the coffee filters. Blow dry or let them air dry. Crumple and unfold them. Then glue the buttons on!