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Stamped Sight Word Banners

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There are so many fun ways to practice sight words, which is great because they are a super-important part of learning to read.

With this project, we’re going to make a fun craft project with our sight words, Stamped Sight Word Banners, and use it all year long to support learning.

Get a little creative and turn your reading practice with a craft project when you make these cardboard tube stamped Sight Word Banners. It's fun to make and would make a fun display at home or in the classroom.

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Supplies Needed

White paper
Empty cardboard tubes
Several colors of craft paint
Black marker
Scissors
Yarn
Tape

Get a little creative and turn your reading practice with a craft project when you make these cardboard tube stamped Sight Word Banners. It's fun to make and would make a fun display at home or in the classroom.

How to Make Your Sight Word Banners

You’ll first want to prepare your paint. Pour or squeeze out a bit on a flat surface. I like to use a clean plastic lid from an old food container (like a sour cream container). Spread it enough for your cardboard tube.

Next, take your cardboard tube, place it in the paint and then use it to stamp circles on your white paper. Stamp enough circles so that you have one for each sight word.

You can use all one color or multiple colors. But, you will want to use a clean end of a cardboard tube for each color.

Get a little creative and turn your reading practice with a craft project when you make these cardboard tube stamped Sight Word Banners. It's fun to make and would make a fun display at home or in the classroom.

Let the paint dry and then write each sight word in a circle.

Use the sight words from a list sent home from school, or find a online resource to find the sight words for your child’s grade level. You can also use the Dolch sight words from our Flower Sight Word Cards.

Next, cut out each of the circles.

These fun stamped sight word circles would be fun to play and learn with on their own, but we’re going to go one step further and turn them into banners.

Decide what order you want your sight words. You can put them in alphabetical order or a random order.

Take a length of yarn and tape each circle a standard length apart. If you tape the yarn near the top of your circle, it won’t flip over as often.

Make several sight word banners or one long sight word banner, depending on where you would like to display it.

Finally, hang your sight word banner on the wall.

Get a little creative and turn your reading practice with a craft project when you make these cardboard tube stamped Sight Word Banners. It's fun to make and would make a fun display at home or in the classroom.

How can you use your Sight Word Banner?

This sight word banner make a fun display in a homeschool room, at your homework station, or in the classroom, but you can also have a bit of fun with it as well.

Here are some other fun ideas:

Keep it off the wall and use it to read sight words every day. Instead of reading flashcards or a list, you can read a fun chain of words.

Put all the circles in a bag, reach in and pull one out. Read that word and then choose another circle. Or, you can use the circles to play a game like our -AT Hat Word Family Game.

Use the banner as a word prompt when playing a fun game like Sight Word Tallies from Creative Family Fun. Can you find each of the words in a book you’re reading?

How would you use this Stamped Sight Word Banner?

Get a little creative and turn your reading practice with a craft project when you make these cardboard tube stamped Sight Word Banners. It's fun to make and would make a fun display at home or in the classroom.

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Get a little creative and turn your reading practice with a craft project when you make these cardboard tube stamped Sight Word Banners. It's fun to make and would make a fun display at home or in the classroom.

You may also enjoy one of these fun reading activities:

IN Word Family Game: Hide and Seek Words

Stacking Rhyming Words

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Bats in a Cave Sight Word Game at Creative Family Fun

Sight Word Eye Charts at JDaniel4’s Mom


Printable Hot Chocolate Valentines

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Valentine, you warm my heart!

And dear reader, you warm my heart too.

That’s why I made these fun little Hot Chocolate Valentines for you. All you need to do is print them out and add a packet of hot chocolate to each.

Give your friends a sweet and warm gift with these free printable Hot Chocolate Valentines. Just print, cut, and package with an envelope of cocoa. #ValentinesDay #Valentines #CreativeFamilyFun

Print enough for your elementary-aged child to give to the whole class or maybe your tween would like to gift a few to some of her close friends. They would even work as a little Valentine’s gift for your co-workers.

It would warm anyone’s heart to receive this sweet treat.

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Give your friends a sweet and warm gift with these free printable Hot Chocolate Valentines. Just print, cut, and package with an envelope of cocoa.

 

Gift the gift of Hot Chocolate Valentines

Print up as many Valentines as you wanted. There are four Hot Chocolate Valentines to a page.

Keep reading, you can find the link to download the cards at the bottom of this post.

I printed my valentines on cardstock for extra thickness, but plain copy paper would work as well. If you do use card stock, make sure you use the kind that is made to go through your printer, otherwise, it won’t print correctly. (I’ve already made that mistake!)

Give your friends a sweet and warm gift with these free printable Hot Chocolate Valentines. Just print, cut, and package with an envelope of cocoa.

Cut around the edges with some decorative scissors. (You can find similar ones here.)

And, also punched a hole along each side.

Use string to tie your packet of hot chocolate to the back of each card.

If you are worried about the hot chocolate packets slipping out, attach the card to the packet with a piece of double-sided tape before tying the string.

Give your friends a sweet and warm gift with these free printable Hot Chocolate Valentines. Just print, cut, and package with an envelope of cocoa.

You’re friends and family will love receiving this simple Valentine’s gift of hot chocolate.

I wish I could give one to all of you, but instead I’ll just give you the tools you need to make your own Valentines.

Happy Valentine’s Day friends!

Click here to download your set of Valentine cards.

 

You may also like one of these fun Valentine’s ideas:

Simple Valentine Card Making Station

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Prepare your Hot Chocolate Valentines with these fun resources

Here are some of my favorite supplies you can use to make this fun Valentine for your friends:


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Printable Spring Flower Sight Words

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Are you working on sight words?

If so, I’ve got a fun tool that you will love, these pretty watercolor spring flower sight words printable cards.

Print what you need and use them in so many fun ways to practice reading.

Printable Spring Flower Sight Words

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Dolch Spring Flower Sight Words

These printable Spring Flowers Sight Word cards contain all of the Dolch sight words (a popular list used by many classrooms). It’s divided by level: pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and nouns.

You can print out all the words or just the set that you need. Print on cardstock or laminate the cards for extra durability.

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Pretty Printable Spring Flower Sight Words Printable Cards

Fun Ways to Use Your Flower Sight Words

Play a Match Game

Print out two copies of each set, mix them up, and play a simple match game. Or, flip them all over and play a fun game of Memory.

Try a Sensory Writing Activity

Use these cards alongside a fun sensory writing idea. You can write with paint in a bag or write your words in shaving cream. Another fun idea is to use them alongside this Slime Writing Tray from Sugar Aunts.

Explore with Flowers

Use the stem of an artificial flower to trace all the words. Or, you can play hide and seek with these words in the garden.

Turn them into Secret Codes

Use your Flower Sight Words alongside our Spelling Word Secret Code sheets to turn your sight words into a fun secret code.

How would you use your Flower Sight Word Cards? There are a million ideas! So download, print and have fun!

Practice Dolch sight words with these fun watercolor Spring Flower Sight Words printable cards for pre-k through 3rd grade. Print, play, learn and have fun!

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Silly Heart Puppet Valentine Craft

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We’ve been making a lot of Valentines for our family and friends lately.

It’s been so much fun sharing the love, but I thought the girls would enjoy making a fun craft for themselves.

We got out all the fun supplies: puff balls, googly eyes, paint, and glitter and turned them into a Silly Heart Puppet.

This is a fun open-ended project that is perfect for both toddlers and preschoolers. We had some much fun making this Valentine’s kids craft and I know you will too.

Use recycled materials to make this Silly Heart Puppet Valentines craft for kids. It's fun for toddlers, preschoolers, and big kids too.

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Supplies Needed

Cardboard (I used an old cereal box)
Large craft sticks
Glue
Paint
Googly eyes
Puff balls, glitter and any other embellishment you want to add

How to make a Silly Heart Puppet

We started by gluing our craft sticks onto the backs of our cardboard hearts.

Next we got out our paint to decorate our hearts.

After the painting was done, it was time for the glitter. I had the girls sprinkle the glitter on the wet paint, which will hold it on as well as glue does.

Don’t be afraid of the glitter! Fold a piece of paper in half, then open it up again. Shake the excess glitter off onto the paper and use the fold to help you get the glitter back in the container.

Hint: Wrap some packing tape around your hand, sticky side up, and it will pick up all the excess that is scattered around the table and the floor. 

Once the paint dried a little, it was time for the embellishments.

We glued colorful puffballs and googly eyes on our hearts.

Use your imagination! Scraps of fabric, ribbon, sequins, and beads are just a few of the things you could add to your puppets.

Keep it open-ended and keep it fun. I always love to see the things my girls create.

Use recycled materials to make this Silly Heart Puppet Valentines craft for kids. It's fun for toddlers, preschoolers, and big kids too.

Each Silly Heart Puppet is a little bit kooky, a whole lot of silly, and very unique.

We had a great time making them!

Now it’s time to have a lot of fun playing with them!

Use recycled materials to make this Silly Heart Puppet Valentines craft for kids. It's fun for toddlers, preschoolers, and big kids too.

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Find your supplies here:

After you’ve raided your recycling bin for cardboard, here are some of our favorite craft supplies to make these fun Valentine’s Day puppets:

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Fun and Simple Valentine Crafts for Toddlers

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You can easily find so many ideas for Valentine crafts. But, so often, those ideas are more suited for preschoolers and older kids (and let’s face it, adults).

That doesn’t help when you’re looking for Valentine crafts for toddlers. They need simple and doable projects, ones that they can have fun and do themselves.

So, before you get sucked into the black hole of Pinterest, I’ve rounded up some fun Valentine’s day activities you can do with your toddlers.

The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

These ideas are all simple enough that your toddler can do themselves. They’ll get messy, get creative, and have a whole lot of fun!

Plus, you’ll have tons of fun creating with them!

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The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

The Best Valentine Crafts for Toddlers

Shape cardboard tubes into a heart shape for a printmaking Heart-Stamped Valentine Card project that’s fun for all ages.

Silly Heart Puppets are easy to make and even more fun to play with.

Little hands will love gluing strips of paper to create these adorable Paper Strip Hearts from Housing a Forest.

Paint with balls to make these super-fun Toddler Painted Heart Doilies from Hands On As We Grow.

The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

The end of a piece of celery makes a perfect heart shape. So, let your little one use celery stamps to make pretty valentines like these from How Wee Learn.

Practice simple beading on pipe cleaners with this simple Beaded Valentine Heart Craft from Inspiration Laboratories.

Paint with cotton swabs to make a pretty Q-Tip Painted Heart like this from Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails.

Use some glue and tissue paper to make these awesome Tissue Paper Heart Cards from Rainy Day Mum.

The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

Use a heart-shaped sponge to make some pretty printed Valentine’s Day Sponge Art like this great idea from Emma Owl.

Paint with yarn to make these pretty Heart Suncatchers from Minne Mama.

Sticking things on with glue is always a fun idea! Use this simple concept to make pretty cardboard hearts like these from Teaching 2’s and 3’s.

It’s fun and pretty to paint on foil. So your little one will love to create these Painted Foil Hearts from Read Science.

The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

Make fun pipe cleaner heart stamps so your toddler can make a pretty Valentine’s Day Printmaking project like this from Where Imagination Grows.

Use frozen hearts to paint a pretty picture with this fun sensory painting idea from Teaching 2’s and 3’s.

Paint with balls of foil to create these unique Foil Textured Hearts from Crafts on Sea.

Put out some supplies and let your toddlers decorate hearts that you can put together to form a pretty Valentine Hearts Bunting like this from Rainy Day Mum.

Which of these Valentine crafts for toddlers do you want to try with your little one?

The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

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The ultimate list of fun and simple Valentine crafts for Toddlers. These Valentine's Day activities are all simple enough that toddlers can easily have fun and do them without frustration.

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Indoor Color Scavenger Hunt for Toddlers and Preschoolers

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