I HEART Animals

 I 💖ANIMALS

See the postings on how to cut out a heart (2.5.2021), What else you can do with hearts (2/6/2021), for today's activity of using heart shapes to make animals.

You need a lot of heart cut outs, so make some.

Then use this picture to help guide you and to spark your imagination to make OTHER animals.

Be sure to share your LOVELY animals with your friends, family, and neighbors!

Send one to someone for Valentine's Day (Feb. 14).

You need:

Paper, 

Scissors,

Crayons or markers,

glue

Palindromes

 Palindrome  -  WORD PLAY 

Oh I love to play with words... Even day I play Words with Friends, and an Italian word game, called Free Rice.

So today I am posting about Palindromes. These are fun words, phrases, or sentences (or numbers) that are the same going backwards, as they are going forward. 

pal·in·drome

/ˈpalənˌdrōm/

Learn to pronounce

noun

1. a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, e.g., madam or nurses run.

   
   

   
   

   DATES, can also be in palindrome style:

   
   

   Sunday – 02/02/2020 – is the first “global” palindrome since 11/11/1111. Unlike other palindromic dates, such as 10/02/2001, 2 February, 2020 is considered a global palindrome because it is exactly the same written both in the DD/MM/YYYY format as well as the US standard of MM/DD/YYYY.

   
   

   They are so fun. You KNOW I love ITALY, so here is one of my FAVORITE palindromes:

                                           An Italian palindrome:   Amore, Roma.

   Here are a bunch... Have fun reading them and seeing the patterns.

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

 

Penguin story and new craft

On  Mar 23, 2020, my friend, Ellie made a read aloud video of the story of Tacky the Penguin.

It feels cold enough to see penguins, so I thought you might enjoy the video.

I also have an easy craft for you about penguins. 

You need:

 scissors, some paper, glue, and your OWN TWO HANDS!

Trace your hand (have someone help, if you need it) onto black paper, or paper you can paint or color black. 

Cut TWO handprints out carefully.

Cut two circles that will fit inside the palm of the handprints. 

Glue the white bellies in the middle of the black handprint. Add some eyes.  Even some snowflakes!

Use this picture to guide you.

Can you tell or write a story about YOUR two penguins? 

Thanks to "It's always Autumn" on Facebook.

What ELSE can you make with Hearts? - craft

 

What ELSE can you make with Hearts?

Look back to the post on 1/29/21 and see how you can cut hearts out of scrap paper or magazines (be sure to ask if you can have the magazines, first!)

(Do you know the trick to getting a heart shape? See post from 2/4/21)

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YOU NEED:

Paper scraps

old magazines, 

scissors,

glue or paste.

LET'S Make some hedgehogs!

Cut out MANY hearts of different colors, but try to keep them about the same size. 

How to make a Paper Heart - Craft Video

How to make a Paper Heart - 

craft video

You need:

Paper (scrap, construction, craft, or even pages from old magazines)

                                                        Scissors

                                                          Paste or glue or glue stick

This is an EASY way to get your heart to be symmetrical. 

Draw a half heart on a folded piece of paper. Che sure the paper is folded in half.

Follow the steps in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMniwemdEHA

Cut out many hearts for your future projects. Then look for ideas on how to use them - or think up your OWN ideas.

Be sure to clean up any mess you have made.

Valentine's Day is Feb. 14th. 

Find out About Valentine's Day - video

Here's a. short video that explains about this LOVELY holiday!

https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/a2b4d3a2-8fb8-44a7-aa2c-cd6535d6bbdc/valentines-day-all-about-the-holidays/

Make a message of love, like, or appreciation to someone special in your life. 

Send it for February 14th.

What can you make from hearts? - Craft

What can you make from hearts? 

- Craft

On Jan. 29, 2021, I posted an idea to make hearts cut from magazine pages. 

Now I challenge you to think of things you can MAKE with the hearts.

Here, I made a flower. I can think of putting 5-6 hearts in a curvy line to make a caterpillar.

Or to stake several to make layered hearts with a button in the middle.

WHAT can YOU do with hearts?   Have fun.