February

TODDLER BOX

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N I C E T O ME E T Y O U !

I’m Kelsey, the creator and owner of Learning with Kelsey! I spent 10 years
teaching in early childhood education as a kindergarten and preschool
teacher. When I had my first baby, I realized how much pressure there is
on parents to teach and prepare their babies for school. I wanted to
create something that would help parents to feel confident teaching their
children without the added stress of gather ideas and supplies!

H O W D O Y O U US E T H I S B OX ?

Each box is carefully planned and packed to make your life easier and more fun! When you open your box each month
you will see the Activity Packet. This is a bound set of worksheets and instructions to help guide you through the
month. It includes a calendar with a suggested order of activities. I designed the month to include both hands on
activities and written activities.

MO N T H LY B O O K R EC O MME N DAT I O NS
Each month I like to share a few books for you to use with your LWK activities!
Check them out below or scan the QR code to be taken to my Amazon List!

Love Monster Ollie’s Valentine

By Rachel Bright By Olivier Dunrea
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Llama Llama I Love you Snuggle Puppy
 THI S MONTH’ S L E SSONS F OCU S ON AL L THI NGS L OVE !

Happy love month! This month your child will get to do activities that are all
about hearts, love, and pink! It is so fun to be able to invite your child into the
holidays and find fun ways to celebrate with them. I hope this month’s box helps
you do that.

WEEK 3 + 4

• Red dot stickers • Play doh

• Crayons • Pom pom
• Sprinkles • Clothespin
• Heart cookie cutter • Red paint
WEEK 1 + 2 SUPPLIES • Muffin cups • Big foam hearts
• Small foam hearts • Heart cookie cutter • Spoon • Pink paper plate
• Scissors • Red, pink, white pom • Contact paper • 2 clothespins
• Silly straw poms • Black paper • 2 big foam hearts
• Pink play doh • Crayons • Tissue paper pieces • Googly eyes
• Tracing pouch • 2 pipe cleaners • Tape
• Heart stickers • Valentine paper straws • Glue
• Red paper • White paper
• Pink paper • Red paint
• Purple paper • Black paint L E T ’S S TAY I N T O U C H!
• Green paper • Foam paintbrush You can find videos of some of the activities in action on my
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 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5

Week 1 Silly Straw Heart Hearts Sticker Hearts Valentine Actions I Love You to Pieces
Play Doh Mat Craft

Week 2 Fill the Heart 5 Little Valentines Valentine Valentine Bracelet I Love You Berry
Fingerplay Headband Much Craft

Week 3 Dot Sticker Heart Color Memory Valentine Mini Sensory Bin Sun Catcher Heart
Game Coloring Page

Week 4 Play Doh Mat Color Hunt Activity Pom Pom Painted Heart Hop Paper Plate Love Bug
Cookies Heart

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 Activity Supplies Why? How?
Silly Straw Hearts • Small foam hearts Your child will practice Cut a small slit in the middle of each heart. You can do this by
• Silly Straw their fine motor skills in folding the heart in half and making a small cut. Do this will all
• Scissors this activity! This is great but two of the hearts because you are going to use them again
*Save two foam hearts for for developing future next week!! Then let your child thread them onto the silly
an activity next week!* writing skills. straw!

Hearts Play Doh Mat • Pink play doh Playing with play doh is a Place the play doh mat in a tracing pouch or page protector for
• Play doh mat (pg. 6) great way for your child multiple uses. Then give your child the paly doh and let them
• Tracing pouch to have a sensory play. If you want to provide some guidance and encourage
(optional) experience and build more play you can ask questions as your child plays. “Wow! Do
their creativity. you think you can make the play doh cover the hearts?” “Can
you squish the play doh on the hearts while we count?” “Try
rolling the play doh like a snake! Can you make a heart with
that?”
Sticker Hearts • Heart page (pg. 7) Stickers are a great way Give your child the paper and the stickers and let them peel
• Heart stickers for your child to get to and stick them on the page. They can put them wherever they
practice their fine motor want! You can encourage them to place them inside the
skills. hearts. Remove the sticker backing to make peeling easier.

Heart Exercises • Action cards (pg. 8) Gross motor skills are a Cut out the cards. Choose a card, do the action on the card!
big part of toddler You can save these cards and use them throughout the month
development! These when you need a little movement or redirection J
action cards encourage
your child to get up and
move!
I Love You to Pieces • Print (pg. 9) Ripping is a great way for Before you do this activity cut the red, pink, and purple paper
Craft • Red, pink, purple your child to build the into one-inch strips. Help your child rip the strips into smaller
paper muscles in their hands pieces. Show them how to hold one hand steady and rip with
• Scissors that will help them hold a the other. After they have ripped the pieces, they will cover
• Glue pencil! the heart in glue and stick the paper pieces on top!

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Heart Play Doh Mat

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arm circles jumping jacks sit ups

toe touches hop on one leg push ups 8

 I love you to pieces!

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 Activity Supplies Why? How?
Fill the Heart • Heart cookie cutter This activity is going to Your child is going to fill the heart with pom poms! They can
Fine Motor • Pink, red, white poms help your child with their use their fingers, or they can use tweezers if you have them
• Tweezers (optional) hand eye coordination. and want to add more difficulty.
BONUS: If your child is ready to count you can practice
counting each pom pom as you put it in or take it out!
5 Little Valentines • Song (pg. 11) Singing songs with your Sing the song with your child and do the actions. Singing songs
Fingerplay child is a great way to with your child will help them to practice words and hear
build their speech skills. words as you sing them.

Valentine Headband • Headband (pg. 12) Fun crafts are a great way Let your child color the headband page. When they are done,
• Crayons to connect and play with cut out the head band and staple or tape it together to make it
• Pipe cleaners (2) your child. fit their head. Attach pipe cleaners to the top of the headband
• 2 foam hearts to make antennas. At the top of the pipe cleaner tape the foam
• Tape (not included) hearts!

Valentine Bracelet • Pipe cleaner As your child threads the Before your child does this activity, you will need to cut the
• Valentine straws straws onto the pipe straws into smaller pieces. Make sure they are pieces your
• Scissor cleaner they are child can easily manipulate. Then, let them thread the straw
practicing fine motor pieces onto the pipe cleaner and make a bracelet!
skills.
I Love You Berry Much • White print I love you Keepsake crafts are so Paint your child’s hand with the red paint and foam
Craft Berry Much fun to have! This craft paintbrush. Press their hand on the middle of the page with
• Red paint will have your child’s their fingers pointing down. Wipe their hand off and let the
• Foam paint brush sweet handprint! paint dry. Then, let them dip their finger in the black paint and
• Black paint dot little seeds all over their handprint like a strawberry! Cut
• Green paper out a piece to be the stem at the top of the strawberry from
• Glue the green paper and glue it on.
* You will use the red paint
again so save it!*

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Five Little Valentines
Five little valentines waiting in the store, (child’s name) bought one,
hold up 5 fingers, then 1 finger
And then there were four!
hold up 4 fingers
Four little valentines for you and for me, (child’s name) bought one,
hold up 4 fingers, then 1 finger
And then there were three!
hold up 3 fingers
Three little valentines wondering what to do, (child’s name) bought one,
hold up 3 fingers, then 1 finger
And then there were two!
hold up 2 fingers
Two little valentines thinking up some fun, (child’s name) bought one,
hold up 2 fingers, then 1 finger
And then there was one!
hold up 1 finger
One little valentine said, “Buy me and run!”, (child’s name) did that,
hold up 1 finger, then 1 pretend to run
And then there were none!
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I love you
BERRY MUCH!
 Activity Supplies Why? How?
Dot Sticker Heart • Heart page (pg. 15) This activity is a great way Place one dot sticker on each dot on the heart. See if you can
• Dot stickers for fine motor skills to be count them as you do it!
practiced and hand eye
coordination as they
carefully place them on!
Color Memory Game • Color cards (pg. 16) Memory games are a Cut out the cards. Then place them face down and play
great way for kids to memory with your child by flipping one over at a time and try
practice their search and to find the match! For some children this may be too difficult,
find skills. if it is you can place the cards face up and play it as more of a
color matching game and find the cards that match!
Valentine • Coloring page (pg. 17) Allowing your toddler Let your child color the picture! Give them different writing
Coloring Page • Crayons chances to color is a utensils to make it more exciting like crayons or markers! You
great way for them to get can tape the paper down to the table to help them hold it
comfortable holding a steady as they color.
writing utensil and
prepare for writing!
Mini Sensory Bin • Sprinkles Sensory bins provide When doing a mini sensory bin choose a bin that is small to fit
• Pom poms your child a chance to the supplies. You can add more of a base if you want a bigger
• Heart cookie cutter practice scooping, bin by adding more sprinkles or some rice. Add in the pom
• Muffin cups pouring, and poms, heart cookie cutter, muffin cups, and spoon. Let them
• Spoon independent playing! explore!

Sun Catcher Heart • Contact paper This is a fun craft that Cut out the black heart from the construction paper. Then
• Heart printed on will help them to again trace it on the back of the contact paper, on the paper side.
black paper (pg. 18) practice those important Cut out the heart from the contact paper. Take the black heart
• Tissue paper pieces fine motor skills! Notice and cut an outer edge from it to make a black border for your
a pattern? J contact paper heart. Peel the paper backing off, stick the black
outer edge down, and let your child stick tissue paper all over
the heart. Tape it to a window when you are done and watch
how the light comes in!

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Heart Suncatcher on black
 Activity Supplies Why? How?
Play Doh Cookies Mat • Play doh Play doh is such a great Put the play doh mat in a tracing pouch or page protector for
• Cookie cutter way to practice the multiple uses. Then let your child play on it with play doh. Talk
• Play doh mat (pg. 20) muscles in your child’s about the shapes on the page. Try cutting your own cookie
hand that help with with the cookie cutter provided! Ask your child to make their
writing! own sprinkles and add them to the cookies!
Color Hunt Activity • Color heart cards Your child will practice Tape the cards up around your house. Then let your child go
(pg. 15) matching skills in this find them and color in the hearts as they find them on the
• Color hunt activity as well as gross worksheet. For example, if they find a blue heart, they can
worksheet (pg. 21) motor as they get up and color one heart in blue! If this is too difficult for your toddler,
move! they can just go on a hunt and find the two hearts that match
• Crayons tapped up around your house!
Pom Pom • Pom pom It is so fun to be able to Use the pom pom painter to paint the heart. Practice dipping
Painted Heart • Clothespin paint with different the pom pom into the paint then dotting it on the page by
• Red paint materials. The pom pom bouncing it up and down.
• Heart print (pg. 22) is a great way to
*Save the clothespin and introduce painting to
some red paint! You will your toddler.
be using it for a craft at
the end of the week!*
Heart Hop • Big foam hearts This game will let your Set the hearts out on the ground. Tape them down if the
child practice their gross ground is not carpeted. Then, let your child jump from heart to
motor skills. heart! Have fun doing different jumps like a frog, bunny, or
even on one foot! When you are done with this activity use two
of the hearts for the love bug next!
Paper Plate Love Bug • Pink paper plate This is a fun craft for Use glue or tape to attach the hearts to the side of the paper
Craft • 2 clothespins your child! Have fun plate to be the wings for your cute little love bug! Glue googly
• 2 big foam hearts creating together. eyes on and draw a little mouth. Paint the clothespins red and
• Googly eyes set them aside to dry. When they are dry clip them to the top
• Tape of the paper plate to be antennas.
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