Afterschool Express: Colorful Heart Fun

During the week we worked on our Paper Bag Book About Colors which inspired several Heart Activities for Valentine's Day.  There are many activities that incorporate color which made it easy to sort the colors onto each page of the color book.  Hope our activities can inspire you for your own Heart Fun with your child. 

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Bilingual Babies: Learning Colors through Valentines

We created and labeled sorting containers for our colors. 

As she was sorting we would do half with English and Half with Hindi and if she couldn't remember she would use her Paper Bag Book to look it up.  We also practiced writing the Color word into the book as we did each activity. 

She traced color words and hearts

Then she matched the traced words to the color words

Then we matched up the hearts to the color words

After tracing, matching and sorting it was time to start Dot Painting Hearts using each color.  As my daughter stamped she sung a little tune of the color she was using. The more learning methods you can use while learning make a bigger impression on the brain.  Dot Painting provided my daughter with bodily kinesthetic, language, musical learning opportunities.  For more information on Learning Modalities.  In the article Howard Gardner refers to multiple intelligences as tools to use in teaching and learning.

We created heart letters so that we could spell out each color word in both Hindi and English.  You can easily do this with any language and any concept! 

Here are are a few more Valentine Projects we worked on this week. 
Sponge Painting with Hearts
Heart Butterfly Valentine's
Handprint Valentine  
Marshmallow Cake Pops for friends

Heart Activities planned for this upcoming week
Heart Stamping
We're going to stamp using a heart cookie cutters with many different colors.  Once dry cut out the hearts and place them into the matching color word.  
Resist Painting with Water ColorsWater color hearts with all the colors.  First write the color words with a white crayon for some resist painting. 
Patterning & Counting Hearts
We created heart patterns and counted with hearts in Hindi and English.  Then we even created our own little heart chart with number words. 

Now that we're working on color words I found a few great sites for more activities. 

Colors of Love Sight Word Game 

From Criss-Cross Applesauce

Here's another inspiration for a Paper Bag Color Book

from Share and Remember

Rainbow Sensory Tub from

No Time For Flash Cards (One of my Favorite Sites) 

Today I At a Rainbow

Here's a great site for Eating 5 a Day with fruits and veggies and rainbow fun! 

Need some ideas for Valentine's Day Check Out Our Pinterest Board

Here are some other Heart Inspired Posts for you from The Educators' Spin On It! 

Stamping to 100 Heart Chain

Bird Seed Heart and Poem

Baby Time Make Your Own Valentine Blocks

Bilingual Babies: Learning Colors through Valentines

Heart Handprint Card
Decorating for Valentine's Day
Heart Breadsticks
Heart Pizza

Hope you have a very special Valentine's Day with your loved ones.  And who knows maybe learn how to spell a new color word :)

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