Happy Valentine's Day!

The day is almost over but I thought I would quickly share an art project I did with my grades 1-3 students last week. The goal was to create tints  and paint various size shapes to create a pop art  I chose hearts to fit this month's theme of love.
I started with the grade 1s. I didn't realize how hard it was for them  to draw multiple hearts. They struggled with it and some of them were losing confidence. I decided to draw one small heart in the middle of each rectangle and I hoped that they could follow my heart to make bigger ones.

The goal was to make tints, not drawing the hearts.
By the time they got to painting, they were just too excited. Some students were more successful than others in making their tints. After the paintings were dry, they outlined the hearts with a black sharpie. The sample below, is one 1/4 of my sample and I just multiplied it by 4 so you can visually see the potential outcome. The grade 2 and 3s were much better at drawing the hearts. Overall, I was pleased with the
project.

Materials:
9x12 construction paper
brushes
white and red paint
black sharpie

Valentine Treats

Every year, I try to find the easiest craft to do with my kids to make Valentine's Day treats for my kids friends. This year I found this heart turn to envelope on Martha Stewart. It's so simple. I didn't have any heart stickers but I did have round stickers which I quickly turned into a heart. On the flip side of the heart, your child could write a message. 

But noooo...my child wanted to make these instead from Funkytime. I printed out the free download and that was the easiest part. She cut  out 23 templates and left the gluing to me. Of course, I am up late trying to get them done. My daughter is going to fill it with cinnamon hearts, cherry sours and little message hearts. Aren't they cute?

Are you helping your child make their Valentine's treats?

Valentine's Day Hearts

My daughter has been sick the last couple of days so we have been making Valentine's hearts. These ideas were found on Kids Artists- a blog maintained by Jacqueline. I have attached the links to the blog for the lesson plans. 

 This one is called Connected hearts and can be found on Kids Artists . 

Here are two variations to the Cubist Heart. It was originally a Christmas tree on Kids Artists but I changed the subject to a heart. We did it two different ways. The first one was done with markers and the second one was done with marker and acrylic paint.Which one do you prefer?

Finally, these hearts are inspired by Jim Dine. More information at  Kids Artists.

Happy Valentine's Day!