Have Nothing Planned For Valentine's Day
:( What are you all doing? I want to keep it simple. No exchanging cards because it's chaotic, the kids don't care and it's just extra work for dcps. Don't really want to decorate or have a party. Bleh, so not into it right now.
Maybe I'll make some heart cookies and let the dcks decorate them. Any simple artsy craftsy ideas? Thanks! |
We are making mini-cheesecakes and washing strawberries together for afternoon snack. They can take some that they make home to their parents if they don't get too erm, well, you know. :lol: If in doubt I will make some for them to give their parents/siblings. ;)
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Honestly I'm not doing a dang thing for Valentine's Day with DCKs. :lol:
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13-th is Mardi Gras. Try looking into masks and over-eating :D sissy pink hearts are so last century...
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Originally Posted by Mad_Pistachio: https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/mi...1-c46abe1fc7d5 - I take that back, just found an easy one. |
We will do a card exchange and have the kids decorate bags for the cards, probley make mom and dad a card as well.
For lunch we will have pink pancakes and milk (with eggs and veg). For snack we have birthday cupcakes cause it's also my son's birthday so I save a treat for that. |
https://www.thehappierhomemaker.com/...esecake-bites/
I realized I forgot to give the cheesecake activity link. :lol: I am doing it mostly because I want to have fresh cheesecake for my husband after dinner on valentines. :p |
We will decorate bags a couple of days a head for the Valentine Exchange. We play games that have a lot of pink Foo-Foo hearts, like pin the heart on Cupid. We decorate heart-shaped cookies. And make heart-shaped pizzas
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Originally Posted by Mad_Pistachio: |
I have a big heart cookie cutter than we usually practice tracing with, we do painting with pink and red and we have strawberry pancakes in heart shapes for lunch. Nothing fancy!
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My families love the Valentine exchange so we'll do that. We'll decorate bags and have red/pink/white food all day. That's pretty much it.
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Originally Posted by Cat Herder: |
We will have cupcakes that day and I got each of them a Valentines Day book as a gift but that’s it.
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Originally Posted by Mad_Pistachio: The King Cake tradition is thought to have been brought to New Orleans from France in 1870. A King Cake is an oval-shaped bakery delicacy, crossed between a coffee cake and a French pastry that is as rich in history as it is in flavor. It's decorated in royal colors of PURPLE which signifies "Justice," GREEN for "Faith," and GOLD for "Power." These colors were chosen to resemble a jeweled crown honoring the Wise Men who visited the Christ Child on Epiphany. In the past such things as coins, beans, pecans, or peas were also hidden in each King Cake. Today, a tiny plastic baby is the common prize. At a party, the King Cake is sliced and served. Each person looks to see if their piece contains the "baby." If so, then that person is named "King" for a day and bound by custom to host the next party and provide the King Cake. Mardi Gras Day has a moveable date and may occur on any Tuesday from February 3rd to March 9th. It is always the day before Ash Wednesday, and always falls 46 days before Easter. https://www.randazzokingcake.com/pag...ing-Cakes.html |
I never do a party, the kids don't exchange valentines, maybe make cards for each other that day during free art but nothing big. I do pretty much always get pink red and white balloons and we play with those for like an hour in the morning and the afternoon because its usually still super cold here where we live.
I may also do a parent gift, i think last year i made a bookmark? or the salt dough thumb print keychains? and ill send the kids home with a little goodie bag of stickers and pencils and stamps (dollar store stuff) themed for the occasion. If I'm feeling super into it and RISKY we ill go those YUMMMMY sugar cookies with the icing on top that just melt in your mouth! only if I'm asking for trouble that afternoon :ouch: |
" YUMMMMY sugar cookies with the icing on top that just melt in your mouth!"
I am so unimpressed with my sugar cookie recipe and too lazy to look for others. Would you share the recipe? I haven't decided if I am doing a parent gift. One minute, we are doing something for parents, siblings, grandparents, etc. The next, I decide not to do gifts at all. I will only have 2 kids that day, and one is just 15 months old. Depending on the 3 year olds level of enthusiasm that day, we will either pack the day with activities, or just chill all day and mostly ignore it. |
I don't do anything for this holiday...
I just don't view it as something that includes daycare.... If parents want to show their lovethis to their child, they can certainly do so...but I don't "celebrate" this holiday within our curriculum. I've always thought of this particular holidays as an "adult" holiday. |
We celebrate it.
No clue what we are doing yet though.... |
Originally Posted by Mad_Pistachio: |
Originally Posted by Cat Herder: |
I don’t really celebrate most holidays with the daycare kiddos. They might get a Valentine’s Day snack this year. I didn’t do anything last year. I make the parents the same refrigerator magnet keepsake every Valentine’s Day but the kids don’t really help other than posing for the picture that I use for the magnet. Last year they all brought each other a little treat. I kept them on the counter and sent them home. They didn’t open them here.
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Originally Posted by LysesKids: |
Originally Posted by storybookending: |
Do you have a private Facebook page for your parents? I do a Valentine's photo shoot each year. It's always fun. I ask the parents to dress their kids in something red/white/pinkish, etc & I create a very simple prop booth with items around my house. The kids have fun posing & being silly in the "set" I create. One year I printed them off for parents but I found it was easier to just upload them to the private page & parents can print them off themselves. My parents all love it & I enjoy it too or I wouldn't bother.:ouch:
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Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
My curric kit comes with a monthly holiday pack so we're using that. But that's it. :)
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Originally Posted by storybookending: |
We are doing a couple cute valentine's day crafts and I am giving all the kids a healthy valentine from me.
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Doing a pajama day and card exchange but only because it's my light day (3 kids)
I think there was a provider who either worked at a center or for her own day care had a policy where they celebrated the seasons, but not actual holidays. I do wonder how they worded that. I should have borrowed that policy!:o |
Originally Posted by Josiegirl: I try to spread out the holiday stuff to avoid chaos and burn out so today they cut out and baked cookies, tomorrow they will frost and sprinkle. (Only about an hour of time needed for each task)Then they get a cookie on Valentine's day! We also painted and glittered a paper heart shape for their parents last week and are waiting until Wednesday to give them. |
We do a candy exchange for Valentines. The kids decorate bags and we share out the candy they each bring. But that's it. I personally loathe Valentines Day. I think it's the worst commercial "holiday" out there.
My husband and I talked about it long and hard many years ago and decided to stop all Valentine stuff between us. Our marriage is a 24/7 deal and we make an effort to say and do loving things every single day. I love getting surprise gifts...just coz...at random times. Because he wants to, not because he feels obligated. My daughter and I went to Walmart for a few groceries last night and the store was full of frantic men in the card, jewelry, flower areas etc. It was crazy. We have so many friends who stress every year on how to impress each other for valentines and then spend the rest of the year whining about each other...it's all so fake. Chocolates and flowers on a certain day don't prove you love someone. It proves that Walmart will be richer this week!!!! |
Yesterday turned out to be sunny, sort of warmish, so we spent as much time as we could outdoors. :) It was sooo much more needed than anything else yesterday. And they still got pink cupcakes for snack. :o
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Originally Posted by Josiegirl: |
Originally Posted by storybookending: All in all though it was warm and sunny so it was a good day! Slipping back down to single digits (maybe even a minus something) for evenings but seems the weather will stay in the single digits for a few more weeks anyways. Come on Spring!!! happyface |
I had a few parents ask if grandparents could come by and give their grandchildren balloons and visit for a while. I said "only if they are picking up for the day"......no balloons were delivered:lol:
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Originally Posted by Blackcat31: Originally Posted by Josiegirl: |
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