1. Give each child a box of conversational hearts, carefully opening the box so as not to rip it.  Have them sort the hearts by color.
2.  Make a bar graph of the number of each color.
3. Estimate how many hearts will fit on this sheet and then try it and see how close you were.
4. Ask questions that help them with quantatative differences.  For example,
   • Which color do you have the most of?
   • Which color do you have the least of?
   • What is the difference between the greatest color and the least color?
   • How many more white candies do you have than pink candies?
5.  Play Valentine Battleship
6. Use the Conversation Hearts box to make a picture frame.  Cut out the little heart on front and add a picture of your child.  We added an adhesive magnet on the back to make it a refrigerator magnet.
   
7. Cut out heart shapes and put numbers on them to help your kids learn skip counting.  Make a set of 10's or 5's or 2's or whatever your child needs help with.
8. Find city names having to do with Valentine's Day and mark them on a US map.  Examples:  Valentine, IN; Valentine Az;  Valentine, NE.
9. Practice handwriting by having your child sign his name to a pack of 32 Valentines, LOL.  This may take a while, depending on the age of your kids :)
10. Do a lapbook or unit study on the human heart for science.  We did one and learned alot!
11. Research the origin of Valentine symbols.  Here's a good place to start, but you can probably find more.
12. Learn about symmetry
13. See how many words you can make from the letters in the phrase "Happy Valentine's Day!"

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Posted by Jennifer

I liked the refrigerator magnets.

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Posted by Jennifer

I especially liked the refrigerator magnets.

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Posted by Sue

Those are some great ideas. I won't be homeschooling, but I will be saving those ideas to do with them anyway.

Thank you.

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Posted by Anonymous

I love the picture frame idea! Happy TT! <a href="http://joelysueburkhart.com/blog">Joely</a>

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Posted by Anonymous

aren't you super creative. :)!

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Posted by Anonymous

those are great ideas! I'll have to remember them when my little ones are school age.
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Posted by Anonymous

Great TT! I love the fridge magnets!! I'm stealing that one for sure. We did #9, but we only have 14 kids in his class. These are all so creative and I'm going to use all of them. Happy Valentines Day.
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Posted by Jane

What wonderful ideas. The kids would love doing them.
I appreciate you stopping by my T13.

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Posted by youngmommy

Great list of fun activities... My kids and I will have a great time with some of these ideas. Thanks for sharing them!

Happy Thursday!

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Posted by Anonymous

Great ideas--m & m's are fun to use, too!

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Posted by Anonymous

Valentines Battleship???

Great list. <a href="http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2007/02/thursday-thirteen-taxes-edition.html">Mine is up, too.</a>

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Posted by Anonymous

That's so cute! A great list of fun little things to do!

Thank you for visiting my blog (writing aspirations). I hope you have a great rest of your week!

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Posted by Anonymous

What a wonderful list. I am going to make use of some of your terrific ideas with the kids. Thanks!
Terrific Thursday Thirteen!
Thank you for your visit to mine.
Have a wonderful day!
Happy TT'ing!
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Posted by Anonymous

It's certainly a useful list, but I have to wait for a grandchild first !



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Posted by Leesa

I love the magnets. Love them.



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