CANDY HEART ACTIVITIES
Every Valentine’s day it seems at least one box of candy hearts makes it way into our homes. Why just eat them when you can do lots of fun activities with them too?
I designed several worksheets for your littles to do. Best for ages 3+. They are of different skill levels. Print out only the pages you need. You can do them all at one time or break up into different days.
Materials:
- Candy Hearts
- Candy Heart Worksheets
- printer paper
- printer
- crayons or colored pencils
- pencil
I used a box of conversation hearts. There are lots of options out there- smaller boxes (may need 2) or bags. If you buy a bag ahead of time sort the hearts to make sure you have enough for each activity.
Sorting
Dump all of the hearts out into a bowl. Pick out one of each color and place each on their own heart.
Optional- color in hearts or write names of colors on hearts.
* If more than 6 colors, then just choose 6 to use for this activity. If more than eight of one color heart, eat the extra!
Graphing
Review the colors of the hearts from the first activity. Have your child color in one heart of each color.
Have your child/children take the hearts off of the sorting sheet and place in the correct columns on the graph. Then count to see how many of each color they have and then write the answer in the oval on the right.
Last, have them circle the colored hearts with the most and least (see example).
Estimating
Have your child guess how many hearts it will take to fill up the hearts on the worksheet. The candy hearts should not go over the black outline of the heart on worksheet.
Shapes Building Challenge
Have your child make the outline of shapes using the candy hearts. For younger children, draw the shape and then have them put candy hearts on the outline.
Optional: Make letters and numbers out of the candy hearts too.
Measuring
Have your child figure out how many hearts tall an object is. Complete by stacking candy hearts in a vertical row the size of the objects on worksheet. Once complete, have them count the candy hearts and write down how many it took by the picture.
Optional: Find objects in your house and measure how many candy hearts long they are or wide. Make more challenging by having them guess before they do it. Then compare their guess and actual amount it was.
Design Your Own
What would your candy heart look like? Striped? Rainbow? No right or wrong way to do it. Have your child choose a phrase and then color the heart in. Review the phrases on the hearts before you write your own.
Patterns
Have your child complete color patterns. Copy the six examples in the boxes.
Optional: Can you come up with any more patterns?
Review
Have your child review numbers, letters, or sight words by coloring them in once you say them. Ahead of time you will have to write what you want inside of the hearts.
You could also have them make a pattern in each row.
Example: My daughter is working counting by 10’s so she started out by coloring in 10 and then continued on until 100.
Draw a Picture
Make a picture that incorporates candy hearts. Then below have your child write a brief story or sentence about the picture they created. If too young to write, write the sentence/story for them.
Tic Tac Toe
Play Tic Tac Toe! The winner of each game gets to eat one candy heart. Play until you run out of candy hearts.
Happy Candy Heart Day!
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