Five Little Valentines Rhyme and Craft

We love the Five Little rhymes in our house. We had yet to create a Valentine rhyme so that is what we worked on today. There are three different versions of the rhyme, so you can choose which you like best- or do them all!

Creating the Valentines

Materials: Really anything you have laying around the house will do. Some suggested items we used are doilies, construction paper (red, pink, purple, white), googly eyes, craft scissors, glitter, markers, pom poms and buttons.

Create your heart templates using an empty cereal or cracker box.

Glue your colored paper for the hearts onto a box.

Use your heart stencil and trace at least 5 hearts. Cut the hearts out.

Then decorate!

Aren’t they adorable???

Here are our finished Five Little Valentines to use with our rhymes (below). If you want to see how we made our stands, see our post, Fall Fingerplays.

The Box

I bought this cute little mailbox at Target in the Dollar Spots, but any small box will do. Simply cover it with colored paper and write the words, “Valentine Box” on it!

Then when playing with the rhyme, you can put the Valentines in the box!

Rhymes

FIVE PRETTY VALENTINES

Five pretty valentines waiting at the store.

(Child’s name) bought one and then there were four.

Four pretty valentines shaped like a V,

(Child’s name) bought one and then there were three.

Three pretty valentines said: ‘I love you’

(Child’s name) bought one and then there were two.

Two pretty valentines, this was so much fun.

(Child’s name) bought another and then there was one.

One pretty valentine sitting on the shelf.

I felt sorry for it, so I bought it for myself!

FIVE LITTLE VALENTINES

Five little valentines were having a race

The first little valentine was frilly with lace.

The second little valentine had a funny face.

The third little valentine said, “I love you”.

The fourth little valentine said, “I do too”.

The fifth little valentine was sly as a fox.

He ran the fastest to the valentine box.

FIVE BIG VALENTINES

Five big valentines from the corner drug store;

I mailed one to a friend, then there were four

four big valentines, lovely ones to see;

I mailed one to (insert name), then there were three

Three big valentines, red, shiny, and new;

I mailed one to (insert name), then there were two

Two big valentines, the best is yet to come;

I mailed one to (insert name), then there were one

One big valentine, the giving’s almost done;

I mailed one to (insert name) and now there are none.

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Interested in our other 5 Little Rhymes? Check out our post, Rhymes for All Seasons or click the image below:

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