VALENTINE'S DAY BOOK + CRAFT

CUTIEPANTS VALENTINE'S DAY BOOK ALERT!! Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! is pretty much everything you ever wanted in a Heart Day picture book: hearts, lots of giggles, sparkle and sweetness galore PLUS dancing mice and casserole! 🤓

Kinley and I both love every book in the Click, Clack, Moo series and we were so excited when this one showed up on our doorstep (Thanks, Simon Kids!!) Do you know these crazy farm animals? The premise of them all is a little like Toy Story on a farm -- what the animals do when the humans aren't paying attention, ya know?

In this one, a cute little yellow duck is rushing around getting everything decorated and ready for a big Valentine's Day dance for all of the animals. She makes everyone a sparkly valentine and a necklace with hearts made of everything she can find. We saw a crafty opportunity the minute we saw those sweet little accessories! Sparkly heart necklaces?! SIGN US UP!

Wanna do a little Valentine's Day bookish play, too? This is the perfect super easy classroom party activity -- super low-mess, quick and easy, and they can wear the finished products for the cookie and candy eating!

CHEERIO SENSORY FUN

Kinley and I were bored today so I decided to check the pantry for anything that was both only semi-messy and edible without having to be cooked and, voila! I spotted a super old box of Fruit Cheerios...perfect! 

I just dumped them in our giant sensory tub (one of those long, under-the-bed storage boxes) and threw in a bamboo spoon and her brand new Valentine's Day sensory scoops. (I found those in the Target dollar bins and with my Cartwheel app, they wound up costing a whopping $2.40!) 

Kinley loved this activity and it held her interest for a good half hour--not too shabby for a one year old.  Her favorite thing to do was take the Cheerios out by the handful and dump them on the floor, of course, but, when I showed her they were scoop-able she got the hang of that pretty quick. We had fun dumping them from up high and down low, slow and fast.  And, bonus, she enjoyed eating them by the handful.  She actually enjoyed that part so much that after I had cleaned up our mess and took her to play in her ball pit, she threw up a Cheerios rainbow all over both of us.  Oh well...just another day in the life of a domestic superhero...(sorry, I didn't think of taking a picture of the vom, I'm sure what you are picturing in your head is pretty accurate.)