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Candy Hearts are so much fun at Valentine’s Day! There are really a lot of learning activities that can be done with them. I want to share with you today some fun candy heart learning ideas that we have been using in our school. Food always makes learning so much more fun…
Candy Heart Battleship Game:
Print a Hundred Chart for each child. (2 players)
Give them each the same number of hearts, we used 10 each. They will need a divider to shield their board from the other player. We set up a big book. Let them put their hearts on their chart in any order. Then they take turns guessing numbers to find the other player’s hearts. If it is a miss, they put an X on their chart. The first one to clear the other board wins! This game is great for teaching number recognition!
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Counting and Adding With Candy Hearts:
Cut out some hearts and write numbers on them. Have them count out the right number of hearts to match the numbers for younger kids, and make it more challenging for older kids my doing addition or subtraction with the numbers.
Graphing Candy Hearts:
I found a couple of cute printable graphs online already made and printed one out (there are tons- just Google it!). We graphed our hearts by color on a bar graph.
Alphabet Candy Hearts:
For your young learners, have them find a letter they recognize in the word on the heart and match it up with the alphabet. For your readers, have them put the phrases in alphabetical order.
Here is a fun one we did last year: Language Learning with Broken Hearts. We pulled it out to use again this year.
I also made a little Candy Heart Bingo printable. Give them a pile of candy hearts and let them match them up on the grid by what they say. The first one to get 4 in a row wins! It is a great reading activity to help your kids recognize the phrases on the candy hearts- plus it is just fun!
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Leah Mathis says
February 7, 2013 at 6:53 pmToo cute!! Valentine activities are so much fun! They just seem to be cuter than the rest of the year. 😉
monstersed says
February 8, 2013 at 4:46 amI love this, thanks for sharing 🙂
Kirstylee Cassidy says
February 11, 2013 at 10:28 pmFun ideas! I can’t wait to try them.
A View from the Pew says
February 12, 2013 at 2:39 pmGreat ideas!
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom says
February 12, 2013 at 10:58 pmLove the candy battleship game!! Thank you for linking up this week to the Hearts for Home Blog Hop!
2 Big, 2 Little says
February 15, 2013 at 2:44 pmThese are some great ideas for using candy hearts 🙂
Thanks for linking up to the Kid’s Co-Op. I’m featuring this post on my Co-op post this week and pinning it to the Co-Op board on Pinterest as well 🙂