Valentine's Day Archives

Coloring pages and printables for Valentine’s Day

By Cathy James on February 8th, 2013%

I’m so glad you enjoyed the coloring pages I made last month – thanks for all the lovely feedback! I thought you might like some this month with a Valentine’s theme. I’ve got some coloring pages, a printable multi-lingual poster and a journal page for you to print and try.

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Queen of Hearts jam tart play dough recipe

By Cathy James on February 6th, 2013%

We took our favourite play dough recipe and transformed it into some fun messy play, making jam tarts for the Queen of Hearts in our Valentine bakery.

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Symmetry art: Valentine love hearts

By Cathy James on January 28th, 2013%

Symmetry art is a classic childhood painting activity and it works so well as a Valentine craft. Here’s one of our favourite Valentine ideas, mixing maths and art.

Symmetry art: love hearts

To start you’ll need lots and lots of love hearts. We used white card to make ours. Folding the card in half makes it easier to cut out your shapes, as you’ll want both halves of the heart to be the same size so the symmetry magic works. The children can of course have a go – the hearts can be any size they like. Read more »

Valentine lollipops crispy cake recipe

By Cathy James on January 25th, 2013%

If lollipops make your heart go giddy-up this Valentine crispy cake recipe is for you! Just three ingredients (with a few added decorations) and about 20 minutes to make, it’s a recipe the kids can do by themselves with a little supervision.

Here’s how we made them and at the end you’ll find a printable recipe card you can download.