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Local Nursery School Demonstrates An Easy Valentine’s Craft
JAYNE SEBRIGHT
Lancaster Fanning Staff
NEW OXFORD (Adams Co.)
What mom or dad doesn’t
love getting homemade crafts
from their kids?
When kids come running
home with their Valentine, mom
proudly posts it on the refrigera
tor. Years later, when the chil
dren are all grown up, she still
find those glue-pasted, tattered
gifts of love.
Valentine’s Day offers the
perfect opportunity for kids to
show their parents how much
they love them.
Sixteen four-year-olds, along
with teacher Karen Souders and
helper Patty Sieg, at the Emory
United Methodist Community
Nursery School recently made a
simple Valentine’s Day craft for
their parents.
The nursery school has been
around for sixteen years and has
always been directed and taught
by Souders. She and Sieg teach
three classes two four-year
old classes and one three-year
old class each term.
What you’ll need to follow the
pattern is a large red heart cut
out of construction paper. The
heart should be about 10 inches
wide. You’ll also need four 1-
Breata Weaver demonstrates folding the
paper strips to make the zig-zag legs and arms.
Harman follow Mrs. Souder’s directions for making the
legs and arms of the Valentine.
inch strips cut out of a 8”X11”
piece of paper and four smaller
pink hearts cut out of construc
tion paper. The smaller hearts
should be about three inches
wide.
The first thing the children
did was fold the four pieces of
paper in 1-inch sections, folding
the paper back and forth to
create a zig-zag effect.
Once they were finished
making the legs and arms out of
the paper strips, they drew a
smiley face on the large red
hearts. You can use crayons,
markers, or a pencil to draw the
face.
After the face was finished,
the children pasted the tip of
each paper strip onto the heart,
making them appear as arms
and legs.
Once they finished pasting the
arms and legs onto the heart
shaped body, they pasted the
four smaller hearts onto the
ends of each paper strip. The
hearts represented the feet and
hands of the Valentine.
Parents are sure to love this
simple but crafty Valentine’s
Day gift. The bouncy, smiling
Valentine brings a smile to any
one’s face.
Four
The students show off their finished
Trimmer, Olivia Sieg, Paul Brown, Sarah
Gallagher, Janelle Sensenig, and Cameron
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From left Olivia Sieg, Paul Brown, and Sarah Koutts draw smiley faces on their
Valentine heart bodies.
Pennsylvania Alternate Dairy Princess
(Continued from Pago B 6)
the business and economics of
the dairy industry. It’s a lot
more than just the cows and the
milk.”
Kilgore is a senior at Red Lion
Area Senior High School. She is
grateful to her teachers for being
supportive of her dairy princess
activities.
“They’ve been really lenient
in allowing me to get my work
done,” she said.
Kilgore is involved in the mu-
Valentines. From left are
Koutts, Elizabeth Trimmer,
Howe.
sical, National Honor Society,
Civics Committee, Physics
Olympic Team, and played vari
sity field hockey. So far, she has
only missed 15 days of school
due to dairy princess activities.
On the farm, Kilgore helps
take care of her show animals,
unloads hay in the summertime,
and occasionally helps milk
when she’s needed. She owns
seven Holstein animals that she
shows at area fairs and the York
County 4-H round-up.
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Brandon
Talieson
Kilgore was in the 4-H Dairy
Club for nine years. She was on
the dairy judging team for sev
eral years, placing in the top five
at the state competition in 1998.
She also participated in a na
tional dairy judging contest in
Louisville, Ky., in 1998.
Thinking back over her dairy
princess reign, Kilgore is glad
that she decided to run last May.
“1 always have fun and learn
new things,” said Kilgore. “I
haven’t had a bad experience
yet.”