Candy Heart Math {& A Making Words Activity}

I know Valentine’s Day is over, but I like to extend my Valentine-ish activities throughout the month.  After all, February is the month of LOVE, right?!  Well, that’s what I’m goin’ with anyway.  Candy hearts are my favorite February math manipulative and here are a couple of little math printables & activities for you!! 

The first is a little candy heart graph.  I know there are a GAJILLION of these floating around right now.  I like to graph the number of letters in the conversation.  I pass out a large conversation heart to each kiddo and have them count the number of letters on the heart.  Then we create a big ol’ graph on a giant heart to show all the data.  I’ll come back with a pic later this week!! 

I also love this little candy heart probability activity.  I placed a set of conversation hearts in a brown paper bag.  I made 4 bags…one for each table.  In each bag, I added a different assortment of colored hearts, but I made sure that there was A LOT of one particular color.  For example, in one bag I put 12 pink, 2 purple, 1 white, 1 green, and 3 yellow hearts. 

The kids had to reach inside the bag…without looking…and pull out a heart {10 different times}.  On the corresponding sheet, the kids had to tally the color they pulled.  If they pulled out a pink heart, they had to put a tally inside the heart labeled pink.

Throughout the activity, the kids were having awesome discussions.  They talked about how they kept pulling out the same color over and over and then…on their own…started making predictions as to why that was happening.  Sweet!!  After each person at their table had a turn to pull 10 different hearts, I had the kids empty their bags so they could see what was inside and then they wrote about it.

Click on the pic to download the printables to go with these activities!! 

 

Speaking of candy hearts, I found these darling little heart-shaped boxes at the Dollar Tree and snatched ‘em up.  I knew they’d be perfect for something ;)  I put these in our Word Work station for a little making words activity. 

I labeled each with a different number and filled them with letter tiles to spell different popcorn words or chunk/digraph words.  The kids had to open up the hearts, spill the tiles, and spell a word using those letters.  After they spelled a new word, they had to write it in the matching heart on the corresponding sheet.

My favorite thing about these little boxes is that I can use them for ANYTHING!!  I think I’ll put coins in them next week for a little hands-on money activity!!

Click the pic to download your copy of the recording sheet.