Musical Hearts Preschool Game

By Charlene Haukom

Valentine’s Day is on its way, and preschoolers will love celebrating by playing the Musical Hearts Preschool Game! Have pre-Valentine’s Day fun by crafting with your preschoolers. Decorate your egg cartons and heart-shaped treasure with red paint and glitter, then play this fun-filled Seasonal Preschool Game!

What You Will Need

Egg carton
Heart-shaped stickers, beads, or erasers
Preschool Music

How to Play

1. Cut up an egg carton so that you have 12 individual cups. Use additional egg cartons if a lot of preschoolers will be playing.

2. Flip the cups over and place a heart-shaped sticker, bead, or eraser under some or all of the cups. The more preschoolers you have, the more cups and heart-shaped items you’ll need.

3. Play a 5-second snippet of preschool music. While the music is playing, a preschooler gets to peek under the cups in search of a heart-shaped treasure. If s/he finds one, s/he gets to keep it and another preschooler has a turn.

4. Continue Step 3 until all the preschoolers have had a chance at the 5-second musical interval.

5. After all preschoolers have had a turn, repeat Step 3 using a 3-second musical interval. Preschoolers will have to search faster as the musical interval shortens and fewer cups have treasures.

6. Once all of the preschoolers have had a chance at the 3-second musical interval, repeat step 3 using a 1-second interval.

7. Repeat step 6 until all preschoolers have had a turn, or until you’ve run out of heart-shaped treasures.

Make Musical Hearts Preschool Game More Crafty

Have fun with preschool Valentine’s Day crafts before playing this Seasonal Preschool Game! Decorate your egg cartons with red paint, glitter, or heart stickers. Cut heart shapes out of foam sheets to use as treasure. Then draw swirls or polka dots on them with Stickles Glitter Glue. Allow the glitter to dry, then play the Muscial Hearts Preschool Game!

*Hint: Use sticky-back foam sheets for the heart cut-outs so your preschoolers can later use the hearts as stickers!

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