Since I just did a post on this year's Valentine's Day project, I wanted to add to that with a similar project I had students complete a few years ago. During my practicum in a Title I classroom, I had the students write a book report and then make owls to clutch their reports.
I basically re-used this idea for the project that we did this year. I used a different owl template here. Personally, I like this heart owl template better than the heart owl template from this year. These ones look more owl-like.
For this project, I pre-cut all of the pieces and the students glued the parts together after they watched me glue together an example owl. If you want to incorporate fine motor practice, you can trace the shapes onto construction paper and have the kids cut out their pieces. The book reports here are written in paragraph form. I like the book reviews that we did this year better than these book reports. You can find the link to the book review worksheet freebie in my previous post.
This is the second Valentine's Day reading-themed bulletin board that I put together during my practicum in Title I. I got the idea to do a 3D book chocolate box from the Crafty Morning blog. Click on this
link to see the original version of this bulletin board.
For my bulletin board, I did it a little differently. I wrapped milk cartons (that the kids saved from lunch) in brown bulletin board paper. I used bulletin board paper because it is easy to wrap with like wrapping paper. Then, I printed out pictures of book covers. After that, I glued the pictures onto the wrapped milk cartons. I used coffee filters instead of cupcake liners because I needed bigger liners.
For the heart box, I first cut out a giant red heart from bulletin board paper and then stapled it to the bulletin board. Then, I cut sturdier white construction paper strips that I taped upright a few inches in from the red heart. Another option for the upright edges of the heart box would be to use bulletin board border.
