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Valentine’s Day Washing Line – Toddler Activity

February 8, 2015

Our guest posts for the 31 Days of Love series is almost over! Aaaah, what a lovely month and a bit of activities and crafts for Valentine’s Day it has been. Today we have Niki sharing a cute toddler and preschooler Valentine’s Day activity – a little Valenties Day Washing Line. Perfect for getting the kids practicing their numbers!

Check out all the 31 Days of Love posts here! There are lots and lots to browse!

With all of the fabulous cards and crafts that we’ve all been making this past month as part of Red Ted Art’s 31 Days of Love, we are definitely going to need a way to display them all.  So we’ve made a Valentine’s Day Washing Line.  It’s really simple, even for very young children, it helps with their fine motor control using the pegs as well as reinforcing number learning.

play learn everyday - valentines day washing line - close up

We used some basic wooden clothes pegs for our washing line and decorated them with a variety of heart shaped foam stickers.

play learn everyday - valentines day washing line - baby

I sat down at the table with Ivy (1) and Ethan (3) and we were all able to decorate the pegs together, which was really lovely.  After decorating the pegs with the Valentine’s Day stickers, we then added some number stickers as well.

play learn everyday - valentines day washing line - toddler

Ethan is learning to recognise his numbers, so this was a great way to reinforce what we have already been working on.  After the pegs were all decorated, Ethan was then able to thread them all onto a string, which was great for his fine motor control, opening and closing the pegs as well as threading the string through a small space.

play learn everyday - valentines day washing line - peg

We then hung up our washing line proudly and found some of the Valentine hearts that Ivy made earlier to display on it, counting them as we went along.  A perfectly simple activity for when you don’t have a lot of time to craft, and also very handy for displaying all of your other masterpieces!

play learn everyday - valentines day washing line - hanging line

Play & Learn Everyday

Niki is a Mum of 2 and writes a blog about play based learning at home, called Play & Learn Everyday. The activities that they do are aimed at young children as Ivy is just 1 and Ethan is 3, they love to do crafts and messy play as well as playing with lots of toys and travelling.

Some ideas for Valentine’s Day cards to hang on your washing line:

play learn everyday - glow stick valentines - thumbnail play learn everyday - animal valentines cards thumbnail play learn everyday - baby made valentines thumbnail

 

Glow Stick Valentines

Animal Valentines 

Baby Made Valentine’s Day Cards

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  1. Tatiana says

    February 12, 2015 at 11:05 pm

    Thanks for the idea! I like it very much.

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