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Home » Fun and Easy Kids Crafts » Mixed Media » Squishy Heart Sensory Valentine Activity

Squishy Heart Sensory Valentine Activity

By Krissy of B-Inspired Mama 11 Comments

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This post was contributed by Katie of Gift of Curiosity.

Sensory Valentine Activity

My two kids never get enough of playing with things they can squeeze, and this sensory Valentine activity – inspired by a similar sensory activity we did at Christmas – gave them plenty of opportunity to do just that.  Here’s what we did…

A Squishy Heart Sensory Bag Valentine Activity at B-Inspired Mama

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Squishy Heart Sensory Valentine Activity

Materials:

  • Quart-sized baggie with heart drawn using a red sharpie marker
  • Clear-colored hair gel
  • Liquid watercolors
  • Glitter
  • Colored googly eyes

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Steps:

The kids started by squeezing the gel into the baggies. (For best results, use just a little gel. Between the two of them they used less than 1/4 of the bottle.)

Squishy Heart Valentine Activity from Gift of Curiosity at B-InspiredMama.com

Next they added some glitter. After all, everything goes better with glitter!

Then they added the liquid water colors.

Squishy Heart Valentine Activity from Gift of Curiosity at B-InspiredMama.com

Finally, they added the little trinkets I had selected for them; QBoy added letter beads while XGirl added some colored googly eyes.

After I closed up the baggies and sealed the top with duct tape (to prevent little hands from opening the bags and making a BIG mess!), the kids got to work squishing everything together with the goal of turning the clear gel to a pretty color.

Squishy Heart Valentine Activity from Gift of Curiosity at B-InspiredMama.com

Then I invited the kids to “decorate” their Valentine’s hearts by moving their trinkets into the center of the heart.

QBoy decided to take his own approach, however, by putting the alphabet letters in order, but at the bottom of the bag. I went with it, since he was having fun and working on letter recognition, letter sequencing, and fine motor skills all at the same time.

Squishy Heart Valentine Activity from Gift of Curiosity at B-InspiredMama.com

XGirl enjoyed moving the googly eyes around. She found this a bit challenging at first, but then she got the hang of it and started to have some fun with it.

Squishy Heart Valentine Activity from Gift of Curiosity at B-InspiredMama.com

Finally, I showed the kids how they could move all of the gel into the heart outline to make a very pretty heart.

Katie has worked in the education field for over 12 years as both a literacy teacher and as a researcher studying bilingual language development and the value of play. She is currently finishing her PhD in child development, but finds parenting her two preschool age children to be the best education of all. She blogs about kid-friendly activities designed to tap in to children’s curious natures at Gift of Curiosity.

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Filed Under: Fun and Easy Kids Crafts, Holidays, Mixed Media, Play and Learning, Sensory Play & Sensory Processing, Valentine's Day Tagged With: Hearts, Sensory Activities, Sensory Play, Valentine

About Krissy of B-Inspired Mama

Former M.Ed Art Teacher. Current Blogger & Social Media Influencer. Always Crazy & Creative Mama of 3.

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Comments

  1. maggy, red ted art says

    February 5, 2013 at 3:22 PM

    Great fun!!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty.

    Maggy

    Reply
    • Krissy @ B-InspiredMama says

      February 8, 2013 at 7:28 AM

      You’re welcome, Maggy! Thanks for hosting every week. We love Kids Get Crafty!

      Reply
  2. Karyn says

    February 4, 2013 at 4:09 PM

    this is a really fun idea!! My kids would love it!

    Reply
  3. OneMommy says

    February 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    So fun! I got hair gel a while ago to do something similar with my preschoolers….You just reminded me! I love the idea of adding glitter…never thought of that.

    Reply
  4. Jo says

    February 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM

    I love these bags, i have a few other types pinned already so they are on my to do list, & valentines is as good a time as any! I have some cute heart & lips confetti that would work well.

    Reply
  5. Katie @ Gift of Curiosity says

    January 30, 2013 at 11:26 PM

    Thanks for featuring my post!

    Reply
  6. Eddie - The Usual Mayhem says

    January 30, 2013 at 9:49 AM

    I know a small boy who would love this one! He loves squishy things but hates to get his hands dirty. We’ll have to make one of these bags – thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Krissy @ B-InspiredMama says

      January 30, 2013 at 10:29 AM

      I know – my daughter’s the same way. Can’t wait to see what she thinks of it!

      Reply

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