'Heart' Air Balloon Collage

Teaching Shapes for Toddlers - With Paper Collage Activity
Part 3 : Heart 

The next shape in this series is Heart. After lot of surfing ended up with these two. Fun and Simple to make collage for kids, but this time not for me, since I had to cut the heart shaped pieces.😭 I will tell you an effortless way around, you can buy this heart shaped punch online. These punches are available for all shapes and sizes. They are also available on amazon.in. Just surf for the best brand and buy according to your need. I'm yet to buy these!😛

1. Hot Air Balloon with Heart

Supplies

• Construction Paper - Pink, White, Brown, Yellow or Blue
• Scissors
• Glue Stick
• Marker or Pencil

1. If you don't have punches, cut the heart shaped pieces from construction paper, bit time consuming! 

I will give you a small tip in drawing symmetrical heart. 

a. Initially cut a heart shaped piece from a cardboard, so that you can use this as a stencil. 

b. Fold the paper length-wise, and draw half of the heart. Ensure the top and bottom of the heart always start and end up with the crease. (Thanks to symmetry concept!💗)

c. Draw the hearts along the length-wise of the paper, finally cut them out. 

2. I have cut hearts in two colors, pink and white, you can use colors of your choice.

3. On a yellow or blue sheet trace out a big hot air balloon. For the basket of the balloon, I have cut brown squares and used small strings for the rope.

4. Now the preparatory work is over, let your kids have fun in making the collage.

5. LO is now bit well versed in making collage, he is aware of the fact not to cross the outline while gluing the pieces. 

6. If you have punches of smaller size and or could have the heart pieces cut in smaller size, this collage might look more prettier.

At the end of this activity,

• Talk with them about the heart shape.
• Relate with them any previous experience in playing with heart shapes or any book you read about heart shape.
• Sing with them the rhyme "My red balloon, flies high flies high".
• Inflate a balloon and give them as a surprise.

2. Heart Collage with Heart shape

  Supplies

• Construction Paper - Colors of your choice
• Scissors
• Glue Stick
• Marker or Pencil

How do we make it:

1. Get the hearts ready using the punches 😁or cut using the scissors!😭
2. Draw a biggg heart on white paper using the symmetry concept. 

3. Thats it.. we are good to go. Let your kids stick the hearts pieces to the heart💕 The final collage is gonna be fabulous!

4. I just guided LO, to not stick the same colored hearts in cluster, now and then.

All through the activity LO imagined the heart pieces to be butterflies, and he kept saying "yellow color butterfly, orange color butterfly..." Before sticking each heart piece, he took it and flapped the two sides like the two wings of the butterfly, made it fly high in the air... 😊I'm sure he enjoyed playing with the heart pieces more than making the collage😛

Happy Parenting!😊