Vegetable Prints Have the children cut up several different types of vegetables. Use different colors of paint and have the children dip the vegetables in the paint and print on the paper. Valentines Have the children cut out hearts and decorate with paint, glue, glitter. Hang from the wall, window or ceiling. Volleyball Play a gave of Volleyball by throwing a ball back and forth, trying not to let it touch the floor. Mixed Vegetables Serve a dish of mixed vegetables and dip. The children can try different vegetables they have maybe never had a chance to taste before. *For the letter V there is an adorable story called Verdi (spanish for green). It's about a green tree python. It's by Janell Cannon of Stellalune fame! Body v's- Show the kids how they might use their bodies to make a letter v. Invite them to spread apart their fingers, put their arms together at the elbows and spread their legs apart. Vanilla - Sponser a Vote on Vanilla party, Set out bitesized samples of vanilla wafers, vanilla ice cream, vanilla frosting, vanilla pudding, vanilla milk shake, and vanilla yogurt. Invite kids to taste each of the treats and then Vote on their favorite! Violet Velvet "V" - Use scraps of velvet to glue on the letter v. "V"- velvet, velcro For the letter V, you could cut out pictures of vegetables and let the kids glue them on a large V. V- give each child a little piece of sticky-back velcro. let them put this on a piece of tagboard or poster board. do the same to a little cutout of the letter "V" mounted on board as well. show them how they Velcro the V! (decorate the boards!) V- the kids paste the "V" cutout on some pretty paper. if your kids use scissors, encourage them to cut around the letter, to amke an inverted triangle- this is the Vase. glue the vase onto pretty paper, and use either real flowers collected from outdoors or real flowers your local florist gave you to use. (I promised my florist a finished project to display, with a hand written thank you note from my kids- they traced it). How about glue velvet for v -- there are lots of different types so it could develop into a tactile experience, too. velcro--have children try to find places or objects that velcro will stick to (I think one side is stickier than another so let them try both and make some conclusions on their own) make a chart...stick and no stick classify the objects where they belong. Valentines -- make a card for a valentine--provide lots of collage type materials and maybe even some heart shaped doillies (sp?) let them deliver it to someone they love--and let the children deliver them in envelopes. Our classes always like envelopes!!!! Sing valentine songs. Here is an idea for the letter V. I read the story Growing Vegetable Soup to the children. Then we make vegetable soup, and have a vegetable soup party complete with vegetable hats. Also, we make vegetables out of tissue paper to decorate the room. My favorite project that we do every year is for the letter v. Have the children cut out vases from wallpaper books, or if they are unable to cut through the paper, use any other kind. Then using the children's thumbs, dip them in purple paint. By showing them how to manuver their thumbs(they need to touch) have four thumb prints touch, they become a violet. They can or you can then take a green thin marker and make the stems. *Vv Art Activities Vegetable Prints Have the children cut up several different types of vegetables. Use different colors of paint and have the children dip the vegetables in the paint and print on the paper. Valentines Have the children cut out hearts and decorate with paint, glue, glitter. Hang from the wall, window or ceiling. Movement and Games Volleyball Play a gave of Volleyball by throwing a ball back and forth, trying not to let it touch the floor. Alphabet Appetizer Mixed Vegetables Serve a dish of mixed vegetables and dip. The children can try different vegetables they have maybe never had a chance to taste before. *Volcano: A classic activity that teaches kids what happens inside the most dramatic places on Earth! What causes a volcano to erupt? Try this activity to find out. You will Need dirt red food coloring water tablespoon vinegar cookie sheet baking soda large (2-liter) plastic soft-drink bottle What to do 1. Put the soft-drink bottle in the center of the cookie sheet 2. With moist dirt, form a "volcano" around the bottle. Don't let dirt get inside the bottle. 3. Pour two heaping tablespoons of baking soda into the bottle. 4. In the measuring cup, mix a few drops of food coloring with a cup of vinegar, Pour the vinegar into the bottle 5. Stand back and watch 'er blow! why does it Happen? Red foam should come out of the top of the "volcano". The vinegar and baking soda mix and make carbon dioxide. The pressure from the carbon dioxide that builds up makes the foam come out of the bottle. How is it like a real Volcano? In a real volcano, the pressure comes from heat. Thick, melted rock called magma builds up under a volcano. The magma traps hot gases from deep inside the Earth. The pressure of the hot gases builds up until it pushes the magma out of the volcano. Vegetable prints Graphing--What's your favorite vegetable? Vegetable painting Veggie People Take good sized potatoes (one for each child), put them in the oven so they just get soft enough for the children to poke toothpicks in. Then have all sorts of vegetables cut up and out for the children to use. They can take the vegies and use toothpicks to make the potatoes into people, animals, or whatever. When I did this I didn't soften the potatoes and it was too difficult for the children to get the toothpicks into the potato. For vegies I used things like green and black olives, cauliflower, lettuce, carrots, cucumer, etc. They turned out SO cute.