Instructions at Preschool Inspirations DIY conversation heart tree Turn on a good audiobook and glue, glue glue. It takes just a little bit of planning ahead of time to match up the sayings. Instructions at Simple As That diy conversation heart photo frame Pop in a cute photo of your child and you have Valentine’s Day for your parents all ready to go. Just like an old fashion game of memory match, these conversation hearts can also be used to match up. Winner moves the most hearts to his/ her plate. Tiny Heart Chopstick Race: Players work individually to move as many tiny hearts from a central bowl into their own plastic cups, using only a pair of chopsticks.

The person who moves the most candies in one minute is the winner! Station 1: need tiny conversation hearts, 4 sets of chopsticks, sandwich bags, bowl in center and 4 plates. Using straws they use suction to suck up a conversation heart to the end of a straw and then drop it into a cupcake liner. This ‘Minute to Win It’ game might be the most quite you will hear the kids during all of these four games.

Kids have one minute to stack the candies in a tower as high as they can without letting their tower fall over. This is wonderful for fine motor skills and while little ones might use two hands to control the chopsticks, older children will most likely get the hang of using the chopsticks correctly.Ī simple stacking game gets a little more challenging with uneven and not quite perfect candy hearts. The kids have to use the chopsticks to move as many candies from one cupcake liner to the other in one minute. Game #1: Pick them upįor this ‘Minute to Win It’ game you will need a handful of conversation hearts, two cupcake liners and a pair of chopsticks for each child. That way, it gets the curiosity out of their system and tides them over until the gaming is done. Seeing the brightly colored candies in front of them is quite the temptation, so before starting the games we like to allow the kids to each choose three conversation hearts to eat prior to playing the games. It helps to mark their individual work/play space and it gives them a visual to help keep the candies and other supplies in their own area. We like to give each child a piece of construction paper as a placemat. No matter what the case may be, with only a few supplies you can create tons of Valentine’s fun. Are you in charge of planning activities for a class Valentine’s Day party? Hosting a Valentine themed playdate? Or maybe you are just looking for some fun activities to do with your kids at home. This up-and-down motion makes the conversation heart candies appear to slowly 'dance' in the soda.Conversation heart candy goes hand in hand with Valentine’s Day and we have four Valentine’s Day ‘Minute to Win It’ games played with conversation hearts that are fun for all ages. But as the candy sank, more bubbles should have stuck to it, causing it to rise again and repeat the cycle. Once at the top of the soda the carbon dioxide bubbles could escape into the air, causing the candy to sink once again. The carbon dioxide bubbles in the soda were sticking to the candies, and when enough lighter-than-soda bubbles accumulated on a given candy, they should have lifted it up through the soda. After a couple of minutes, some (or all) of the candies should have slowly begun to rise up through the soda. But then something interesting should have happened. Because the conversation hearts are denser than soda, they should have quickly fallen to the bottom of the glass. In this activity you dropped conversation hearts into a glass of freshly poured, carbonated soda.

Pour the soda down the drain and throw the candy hearts in the trash.ĭid the conversation hearts first sink to the bottom of the glass but then, over time, float back up-and then down again-in the soda, 'dancing'?

Conversation hearts game