February can be a fun month to celebrate friendship and Valentine’s Day. Below you will find 3 fun activities all using heart shaped cookie cutters. You might even get to use some goodies leftover from the holidays.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day and friendship you can bake cookies, paint and make your own play dough to use with heart shaped cookie cutters. If you have leftover red, green and white M & M’s you can sort out the red M&M’s
Get 3 plates and have your little one sort the 3 different colors. This can reinforce the early learning Math concepts of sorting and matching. Put the red ones aside to decorate your cookies later. You can make your cookie dough by following a recipe or if your short on time you can use a Sugar Cookie Mix 
After your dough is made and cooled, roll out the dough and use Heart Shaped Cookie Cutters
You can also use your cookie cutters to paint after they are washed. Just put a little Paint
on a plate (mix the paint with soap to make it last longer and wash out of clothes easier). Encourage your child to dip the cookie cutter in the paint and make prints on paper.
Lastly, you can make your own play dough to use with heart shaped cookie cutters. To make the play dough follow the recipe bellow.
Play Dough
Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 teaspoon Alum
or cream of tartar
1/3 cup of water with food coloring or paint
Directions:
Mix dry ingredients first then add wet ingredients. Mix the ingredients together with hands until a nice dough is formed. For a longer lasting play dough cook the ingredients on the stove.
Now you can use the cookie cutters to make fun heart shapes with the dough. These are just a few fun activities you can do in February. Make sure to follow my blog for more fun activities. Soon I will write about more activities for Winter and President’s Day.
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