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Hearts Book Perfect For Valentines Day

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Hearts by b small publishing, £3.99

This cute, compact book shows kids how to cut, stick, weave or cook their loved ones a gift for Valentine’s Day.

From yummy heart sweets to pretty jewelled heart brooches and clever heart wreathes, there are plenty of exciting, creative projects to get stuck into.

Each project is based on one of five themes, cooking, making cards, making gifts, decorating or accessorising.

The colourful illustrations and step-by-step guides are delightful and easy to follow and the front cover doubles-up as a nifty heart-shaped stencil that can be used in each project. There’s also a middle-page pullout of heart-themed stickers.

This book is guaranteed to keep kids busy with hours of fun and help them produce some lovely little homemade gifts too.

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Peach Themed Learning Activities

August is National Peach Month, and it’s the perfect time to learn about, learn with and eat peaches!

According the Utah State University’s Extension Service, peaches originated in China more than 8,000 years ago. There are more than 2,000 species, and they are good sources of vitamins A, C and E. Their fuzzy hair is known as trichomes, which helps protect the peaches against insects and retains moisture. Pretty sweet!

Learn about the life cycle of a peach with this printable pack from Every Star is Different. (Free to subscribers)

Twisty Noodle has a lot of great peach-themed worksheets including a tracing and coloring page, a dot to dot coloring page, do a dot page and practice writing the word peach. You can also learn to draw a peach from Hello Artsy and find more fruit coloring pages, including peaches, at Little Bee Family.

Kids of a certain age will want to read James and the Giant Peach (and/or watch the movie) and you can do activities related to the book for your peach unit study as well. 

Simple Living Creative Learning has a James and the Giant Peach printable pack that includes 153 pages of math, literacy, pattern recognition, sorting and tons more (this isn’t free but it’s a great resource for a kid who loves this book). 

Where the Magic Happens Teaching has another paid printable set of activities for doing James and the Giant Peach in the classroom, including a banner, quotes, poetry sheets, a STEM activity, lapbook and more.

Peanut Butter Fish Lessons has a good post about reading James and the Giant Peach with kids and using it to make predictions, track descriptive and figurative language and fun ideas for activities related to different chapters of the book. I love how it pulls in a lot of different kinds of synthesizing what you’ve read, from writing a news report to making a poster or acting out a scene. 

And if you need a little sensory activity after all that, make some peach-scented playdough with this recipe from Laughing Kids Learn. 

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