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Love Bug Valentine Play Dough

By Shaunna Evans 11 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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I’m sure you knew it was coming…we’ve put away our snowflake play dough, and it’s time for a little valentine play dough fun. If you’ve followed this blog long, you probably also know that my little ones love bugs (at least from a distance). I thought it’d be fun to combine their love of bugs and all things hearts into a little love bug play dough invitation to play.

Love Bug Play Dough Valentine's Day Activity for Kids

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ABOUT  VALENTINE’S DAY AND HEARTS.

Materials

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To make our play dough we used the no cook play dough recipe from The Homemade Play Dough Recipe Book. We divided the batch into three equal(ish) parts and used red, violet, and rose icing colors to add a little Valentine feel. 


Valentine Love Bugs

To create the invitation to play I made a couple of love bugs and set the play dough out with:

  • table scatter and heart gems bought from the Dollar Tree for our valentine sensory bin
  • colored googly eyes from the Dollar Tree
  • pink straws trimmed to small pieces
  • tinsel stems and chenille stems in red, purple, pink, and silver
  • small heart cutters

Valentine Play Dough

The girls were immediately intrigued by all the colors and sparkle. Tinker was the first to get to work creating. I love how she used the heart cutters to make imprints in a winding caterpillar type bug. She spent quite a while positioning all the pieces “just so.”

Toddler Valentine Play Dough

And in true toddler fashion she tested out the materials in other ways, too. She was particularly amused that the bits of straw made great whistles. 🙂

Toddler Play-Straws

Are you making any valentine play dough?

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VALENTINE’S DAY THEME

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Filed Under: Fine Motor, Insects, Invitations to Play, Preschool, Toddler, Valentine's Day Tagged With: play dough

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  1. Alyson

    February 10, 2015 at 11:13 pm

    I just found your website and I’m so excited to use some of your ideas with my kids! I love how you lay out the materials – where did you get the trays you put the supplies in?

    Reply
    • Shaunna Evans

      February 17, 2015 at 9:21 am

      Thank you so much, Alyson! I hope your kids have tons of fun. I find our trays at Walmart in the seasonal section. Some craft stores and Dollar Tree also have trays that could work.

      Reply
  2. Jamie White

    February 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    I love, love, love this idea! I just shared it on my FB page and will use it in my classroom next week. Thanks for sharing!

    Play to Learn Preschool

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    • Shaunna Evans

      October 5, 2014 at 3:40 pm

      I’m so glad you like the idea, Jamie. Thanks for sharing it, too.

      Reply
  3. Kirstylee

    February 4, 2014 at 12:17 pm

    Your invitation to play is so beautiful! I also love your example bugs. I often try to leave things open ended so my boys can come up with their own ideas to play, but they definitely play longer when I give an example creation. I’ll have to try a set up like this when I make new playdough!

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  4. Tiffiny

    February 1, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    Those play-doh love bugs are so stinkin’ cute!!! Love this!

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  5. Jess @ Along Came Cherry

    February 1, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Ah my little girl would love this! x

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  6. Melissa D

    February 1, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    This is a beautiful invitation to play! Will be recreating it here at home. <3

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  7. Kristen

    February 1, 2014 at 7:45 am

    I love your website, and of course this idea. But I want to really know, is where you keep all of teh supplies for your kid projects and how you organize! lol

    Happy Saturday!

    Reply
    • Shaunna Evans

      September 24, 2014 at 4:17 pm

      Ooh, that’s a great question, Kristen! We have a large set of storage shelves that store most of our supplies, and we have a small section of everyday materials that we keep readily available near our school area for quick grabs.

      Reply
  8. karen

    February 1, 2014 at 6:42 am

    wow, what a great idea…so going to have to try this with my guy. Happy Saturday Sharefest.

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