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Valentines Day Salt Painting Activity

ByDeanna

Have you ever explored the activity of Salt Painting with your kids. It has a few steps, but it is worth every one! This is not your average water color painting, it goes beyond the normal. Kids will love this fun Valentines Day activity. Celebrate Valentine’s Day on Feburary 14th by making this beautiful, easy-to-make Valentines day craft! Simply print pdf file with valentines day printables and you are ready to make a pretty art project with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergaten, and first grade student.

Have you ever explored the activity of Salt Painting with your kids. It has a few steps, but it is worth every one! This is not your average water color painting, it goes beyond the normal. Kids will love this fun Valentines Day activity. Celebrate Valentine's Day on Feburary 14th by making this beautiful, easy-to-make Valentines day craft! Simply print pdf file with valentines day printables and you are ready to make a pretty art project with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergaten, and first grade student.

Valentines Day Activity

This super cute valentines day activity for preschoolers is a fun way for kids to work on fine motor skills while making a beautiful preschool valentines day craft. This is a fun heart craft to make with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students for February. Use this salt painting to decorate your home, give to a friend, or as a valentines day card homemade. Use this painting with salt at home or at school.

Valentines Day Craft Template

We created multiple templates for this activity. We have Valentine’s Day monsters, a ‘Bee Mine’ bee, LOVE with hearts, Mi Amor (Spanish for My Love) with hearts, a patterned heart (pictured) and a LOVE Conversation Heart. You don’t HAVE to use one of these templates, if your children would like to create their own, have them start by drawing the picture they eventually want to paint.

Simply grab the free educational printable by scrolling to the bottom of this post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> Downlaod <<. Then open and print the pdf file in color on cardstock or lamiante for durability. Next, cut out the cocolates at the bottom of each page and the chocolate box.

valentines day printables

Valentines Day Craft

To make this cute valentines craft you will only need a few simple materials you probably already have at home. So gather up these supplies and you are ready to make a fun February craft for kids.

  • Printable Templates
  • Table Salt
  • White Glue
  • Watercolor Paints
  • Paint Brushes
  • Water 

 

Valentines Day Craft for Preschoolers

You don’t HAVE to use one of these templates, if your children would like to create their own, have them start by drawing the picture they eventually want to paint.

Start the activity with white glue. We used the bottle of glue as you would with a pencil, but if you don’t have a bottle, you can also use a paint brush dipped in glue.

Trace the lines that you would like to be painted.

valentines day activity

Valentines Day Activity for Preschoolers

Before the glue dries, shake salt over the paper so that it attaches to the glue. I sprinkled quite a bit of salt on the paper. It goes against my ‘don’t be wasteful’ philosophy but this container of salt cost me 38 cents. If you don’t want to waste, you can sprinkle on some and then pick up the paper and swish the salt around so that it gets stuck to the glue. This is a good option if you are almost out of salt too. You can make it work.

Once the glue is covered in salt, shake off the extra. Set the paper aside to let the glue dry.

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Valentines Day Activity for Toddlers

When the glue has dried completely, grab a bowl of water, paint brushes and your watercolor paints.

The trick that we learned quickly is to have the paintbrush saturated with water and paint. It isn’t like typical watercolor painting, you want the brush to be full of water and color. When you set the paintbrush on top of the salt, the color will spread. It is magical.

Follow along the salt, adding color along the way. When you’re done, set it aside and let it dry again.

valentines day craft for preschoolers

Salt Painting

It is so pretty and sparkly. This is a fabulous art and science activity for Valentine’s Day! 

valentines day science secret message valentines day balloon science project Make science come alive for kids with this Valentine's Day Science project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. Children will make a love potion number 9 in this valentines day activities. This science valentines is like a diy lava lamp for February so get ready to concoct  a bubbling and active brew.  This simple valentine's day science project is super quick and easy and only requires some skittles to learn about how substances can dissolve and diffuse. This valentines day activities creates a WOW effect for young learners to help them get excited about science - exploring cause and effect, making predictions, and gaining an attitude of wonder and curiosity about things around them. Try this valentine's day activities with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students during February as a fun Valentines Day theme project.

Valentines Science

Looking for more fun preschool science experiments to try this February? Check out these ideas!

oobleck Valentines Day Science valentines day chocolate playdough recipe Get ready for some serious fun when you whip up a batch of thsi Glittery, Purple Valentine Slime. This Valentines Day Slime recipe usese contact solution and baking soda for a quick, easy, and perfect-every-time slime recipe for kids. We love whipping up a batch of this valentines slime for a kid favorite valentine's day preschool activities for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders.  Valentines-Day-Science

Valentines Day Activities

Valentiens Day Heart Letter Find Worksheets FREE Valentines Day Worksheets - these super cute free printables for preschool and kindergarten age kids help them practice counting, number recognition, alphabet letter, tracing upper and lowercase letters, patterns, graphing, phonemic awareness, colors, shapes, and so much more with NO PREP worksheets for preschoolers and kindergartners perfect for February #valentinesday #valentineprintables #preschool #kindergarten Kids will have fun learning their alphabet and tracing letters while making their own ABC Book with these Valentine's Day Worksheets. These valentine worksheets are perfect for toddler, preschooo, pre-k, and kindergarten age children learning their ABCs. Children will trace upper and lowercase letters, learn valentine vocabulary, and have fun with this Valentine worksheets for preschool. Simply print Valentine's day worksheets pdf file and you are ready to print and go!

Valentines Day Worksheets

Looking for more way to make learning fun during February? Kids will LOVE these Valentine’s Day themed, educational activities. Plus, all of these are free printables.

FREE Valentines Day Lock & Key Color Matching Activity - this free printable is a fun way for toddler, preschool, and prek age children to learn colors whie having fun with a Valentines Day theme perfect for February #colors #preschool #freeprintable #valentinesday valentine math clip cards FREE Valentines Math Count to 10 Puzzles - super cute preschool math activity for february to practice counting to 10 with these sugar cookies. #preschool #preschoolmath #countot10 #valentinesday #preschoolprintable FREE Chocolate Shape Playdough Cards - this shape pritnable is a fun, hands on way for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age kids to learn shapes for kids. Plus using playdough allows kids to strengthen hand muscles with a fun valentiens day activity for february #valentinesday #shapeprintable #shapeprintable #prek #kindergarten

Valentines Day Math

I just can’t believe that Valentines Day is coming up soon! We thought we would make a heart craft to spread some love! So today we are sharing a really pretty and unique fingerprint heart tree project. The best part is for this Valentines Day Craft, we get to fingerpaint! This valentine’s day crafts for preschoolers is perfect for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade too. So grab some custruction paper, paints, and your child and we are ready to make a fun Valentines Day Art Project for February.   matissee heart valentines day art project for kids  fish valentines day craft

Valentines Day Crafts & Activities

Celebrate Valentines Day this February 14th by telling those around you that you care with these super cute, free printable valentine cards. These Tic-Tac-Toe Printable Valentine Cards are perfect for giving to your kids, friends, valentines for classmates, neighbors, and more. They are simple, cute, a little sweet, and low prep. SImply print pdf file with Valentines day cards printable and you are ready to celebrate Valentines day for kids! Celebrate valentines day for families with this fun Valentines Day tradition we do at our house. For this family valentines day ideas, we put hearts on each others bedroom doors to tell them what we love about them. Simply print the pdf file with our free valentines day printable hearts and start a new tradition with your kids this year with this sweet valentines day activities.  This valentine activities for preschoolers is great for the whole family from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, elementary age students, jr jigh, and sr high too. If you are looking for a fun, simple and inexpensive Valentine’s day Gift this year for your kids or spouse, these valentines day coupons a great idea. Give that special someone a valentines day coupon book! These valentine day coupons printable free are filled with lots of fun, creative ideas that yours kids and/or spouse will love. Simply print valentine's day coupon template pdf file with printable valentines day coupons ad you are ready to give a super cute, special gift of time and creating memories together this year! slime printable valentines day cards

Valentines Day Printables

 

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Deanna Hershberger is a work at home mom, coffee obsessed, a diy addict and a Netflix binger. She spends her days playing and making with her daughter and enjoys quiet nights at home with her husband. She shares all of this on her blog Play Dough & Popsicles.

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