February means…Valentine’s Day!

Or: it's February now so I can spam the English Board with Valentine's cards.

Valentine’s Day has some stark differences in Japan than in the USA, so I thought I would focus on a holiday custom not really found in Japan: Valentine’s Day cards.

I gathered a big selection of the funny children’s valentines cards that you can find online and created a montage of them (with a small explanation of them on the side, in English and Japanese).

My February 2022 layout:

It’s a fairly time-consuming project with cutting all the cards out and laminating them, but I believe the students generally enjoy looking at them. I try to use cards with video game characters/cartoon characters that they know to attract their attention. A bonus was that the teachers enjoyed the English puns, which was a nice conversation starter (which is always a win).

Materials:

• Poster markers (zebra oil-based) for the message

• Pink/red colored-paper (A3 size)

• Google Docs (to place all the card pics in one doc and cut out)

• Laminator (borrowed from school)