Valentine's Calendar Project

It's February! The snow has been coming down in full force. We have spent many recesses indoors and needed a fun project. Maybe you need something to take up time or need something fun for your hallway display. If you fit any of these categories I would like to introduce...

CALENDAR ART

Grab a bunch of old calendars and tear them apart. Our school was given a bunch of old calendars. They simply sat in our workroom doing nothing but gathering dust. Maybe you have a stack of old calendars or can grab some from your local dollar store. It doesn't matter the pattern or picture. We used calendars with flowers, tigers, penguin, drawings, dogs, landscapes and even people. Really, anything can work. 

Next cut your calendar in thin strips. It doesn't matter the direction you cut it or if the strips get all mixed up. (In fact it looks better when it does get all mixed up.)

Give each student a photocopied heart on white construction paper. I told my class to bubble cut out their heart and then flip it over. 

Instruct students to glue a section of their heart and then lay their strips onto their heart. I told my students I didn't want to see any white showing through. If a strip was crooked they should overlap the strips.

See...

Finally cut around your heart. I suggest doing this over the garbage can since all the scraps will flutter all over if you don't. Glue your finished heart to a piece of construction paper and hang up.

They are very simple and yet we have received lots of compliments.

Happy Valentine's Day!