Have Nothing Planned For Valentine's Day

[Sunchimes]

" YUMMMMY sugar cookies with the icing on top that just melt in your mouth!"

I am so unimpressed with my sugar cookie recipe and too lazy to look for others. Would you share the recipe?

I haven't decided if I am doing a parent gift. One minute, we are doing something for parents, siblings, grandparents, etc. The next, I decide not to do gifts at all. I will only have 2 kids that day, and one is just 15 months old. Depending on the 3 year olds level of enthusiasm that day, we will either pack the day with activities, or just chill all day and mostly ignore it.

[Blackcat31]

I don't do anything for this holiday...

I just don't view it as something that includes daycare....

If parents want to show their lovethis to their child, they can certainly do so...but I don't "celebrate" this holiday within our curriculum.

I've always thought of this particular holidays as an "adult" holiday.

[daycarediva]

We celebrate it.

No clue what we are doing yet though....

[LysesKids]

13-th is Mardi Gras. Try looking into masks and over-eating sissy pink hearts are so last century...

Yes indeed - Mardi Gras; already have the King Cake , masks, beads etc; I do it yearly. My oldest DD's birthday is the 14 & I send a dozen purple roses (it's a family thing that all the women do). My childcare kids are babes - they won't worry about it being they partied the day before

[LysesKids]

:::: But Kingscake is too hard to make with daycare kids, plus the plastic babies inside are kinda freaky in the wrong context. :::: I don't want to hold that conference.

https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/mi...1-c46abe1fc7d5 - I take that back, just found an easy one.

I do the King Cake without the babe just because my babes are little ( I actually order it from NOLA)...I stick it one of the pieces I send home with the parents ; Let them have the fun

[storybookending]

I don’t really celebrate most holidays with the daycare kiddos. They might get a Valentine’s Day snack this year. I didn’t do anything last year. I make the parents the same refrigerator magnet keepsake every Valentine’s Day but the kids don’t really help other than posing for the picture that I use for the magnet. Last year they all brought each other a little treat. I kept them on the counter and sent them home. They didn’t open them here.

[Cat Herder]

I do the King Cake without the babe just because my babes are little ( I actually order it from NOLA)...I stick it one of the pieces I send home with the parents ; Let them have the fun

:::: Unsuspecting.

[lovemykidstoo]

I don’t really celebrate most holidays with the daycare kiddos. They might get a Valentine’s Day snack this year. I didn’t do anything last year. I make the parents the same refrigerator magnet keepsake every Valentine’s Day but the kids don’t really help other than posing for the picture that I use for the magnet. Last year they all brought each other a little treat. I kept them on the counter and sent them home. They didn’t open them here.

Can you tell me more about your refrigerator magnet craft?

[mamamanda]

Do you have a private Facebook page for your parents? I do a Valentine's photo shoot each year. It's always fun. I ask the parents to dress their kids in something red/white/pinkish, etc & I create a very simple prop booth with items around my house. The kids have fun posing & being silly in the "set" I create. One year I printed them off for parents but I found it was easier to just upload them to the private page & parents can print them off themselves. My parents all love it & I enjoy it too or I wouldn't bother.

[storybookending]

Can you tell me more about your refrigerator magnet craft?

I take a photo of the kids sitting on the floor with a paper heart I made when I niece was a baby hanging behind them. The paper heart says “Happy Valentine’s Day” on it. I print the photos out and glue it to thicker pink project paper leaving a little less than a centimeter for a border around all sides of the photo and then I stick heart shaped foam stickers around the edge. I found the form heart stickers at Target mixed in with the other valentines stuff. They come in a little cylinder shaped container and are $5. I think the brand name is Spritz but I can check tomorrow if anyone wants to know. Then I just glue a magnet on the back. I usually end up just cutting up last years football schedule magnet into strips if anyone knows what I’m talking about when I say that. I do the same project every year so this will be my third year. I am not sure about my other daycare kids but my SIL has both years magnets hanging on her fridge and I’m excited to see this third one next to them. It’s so cute to see how much they’ve grown in a year. I can PM you a picture if you are having trouble visualizing. I print the as 4x6s which gets a little large and I wish I had made them smaller when I started but I don’t want them to not match now haha.

[hwichlaz]

My curric kit comes with a monthly holiday pack so we're using that. But that's it.

[lovemykidstoo]

I take a photo of the kids sitting on the floor with a paper heart I made when I niece was a baby hanging behind them. The paper heart says “Happy Valentine’s Day” on it. I print the photos out and glue it to thicker pink project paper leaving a little less than a centimeter for a border around all sides of the photo and then I stick heart shaped foam stickers around the edge. I found the form heart stickers at Target mixed in with the other valentines stuff. They come in a little cylinder shaped container and are $5. I think the brand name is Spritz but I can check tomorrow if anyone wants to know. Then I just glue a magnet on the back. I usually end up just cutting up last years football schedule magnet into strips if anyone knows what I’m talking about when I say that. I do the same project every year so this will be my third year. I am not sure about my other daycare kids but my SIL has both years magnets hanging on her fridge and I’m excited to see this third one next to them. It’s so cute to see how much they’ve grown in a year. I can PM you a picture if you are having trouble visualizing. I print the as 4x6s which gets a little large and I wish I had made them smaller when I started but I don’t want them to not match now haha.

That sounds really cute thank you!! I do the same thing to get my magnets

[CityGarden]

We are doing a couple cute valentine's day crafts and I am giving all the kids a healthy valentine from me.

[Play Care]

Doing a pajama day and card exchange but only because it's my light day (3 kids)
I think there was a provider who either worked at a center or for her own day care had a policy where they celebrated the seasons, but not actual holidays. I do wonder how they worded that. I should have borrowed that policy!

[Unregistered]

What are you all doing? I want to keep it simple. No exchanging cards because it's chaotic, the kids don't care and it's just extra work for dcps. Don't really want to decorate or have a party. Bleh, so not into it right now.
Maybe I'll make some heart cookies and let the dcks decorate them. Any simple artsy craftsy ideas?
Thanks!

I plan on using cookie cutters to cut their snacks in heart shapes. I'm doing crackers and heart shaped cheese... Maybe heart shaped turkey. Simple yet different.

I try to spread out the holiday stuff to avoid chaos and burn out so today they cut out and baked cookies, tomorrow they will frost and sprinkle. (Only about an hour of time needed for each task)Then they get a cookie on Valentine's day! We also painted and glittered a paper heart shape for their parents last week and are waiting until Wednesday to give them.