14 SWEET Pre-K Valentine’s Activities
In the classroom, Valentine’s Day is synonymous with red and pink, hearts, and alllll things love! Use these 14 SWEET Valentine’s activities with your Pre-K students this February for hands-on fun as you approach this special holiday!
- Valentine’s Read Alouds
- XOXO Tic-Tac-Toe
- Valentine Count the Rainbow
- Valentine’s Pattern Worksheets (FREEBIE)
- Valentine Flip & Color (FREEBIE)
- Valentine’s M&Ms Sorting & Graphing Mat
- Conversation Heart Names
- There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose Retelling Activity
- Valentine’s Pattern Mats
- Valentine’s Heart DIY Craft
- Conversation Heart Manipulatives
- Valentine Name Crayon
- Valentine Paper Bag
- Bee Mine Name Craft
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1. Valentine’s Read Alouds
There are so many sweet, lovey-dovey books to read with preschoolers.
A couple of Pre-K classroom favorites:
Slugs in Love by Susan Pearson
This book is about an adorable, sluggy love story. Boys and girls alike will stay engaged as the two slugs write poems in slime for each other until finally finding each other and falling in love.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse by Laura Numeroff
This book is the perfect introduction to all things fun and festive for Valentine’s Day. Mouse makes valentine’s cards for each of his friends while considering what makes each of them special. The repetitive nature of the text makes it a great read-aloud choice even for the youngest preschoolers!
2. XOXO Tic-Tac-Toe
Find these cute X’s and O’s pretzels at Target or on Amazon, then attach this easy print-and-go tag.
Use this as a nice sugar-free alternative to all of the Valentine’s candy or add the classic game into your math lesson. Practice making patterns, sorting, and following multi-step directions.
3. Valentine Count the Rainbow
Use this rainbow counting mat with a bag of Valentine candy hearts for lots of intentional fun. Sort colors, build a rainbow, and count how many snacks are used. Slip the hearts in a sealable bag to use over and over, or let your little ones have a tasty treat when the work is done!
4. Valentine’s Pattern Worksheets (FREEBIE)
Cut, glue, and color AB, ABB, and ABC patterns with this Valentine Freebie! This freebie includes 3 pages – 1 page per type of pattern.
5. Valentine Flip & Color (FREEBIE)
With this heart activity, little ones will work on fine motor skills by flipping the cards and coloring the matching hearts. They’ll also practice counting and using ten-frames.
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6. Valentine’s Chocolate Candy Sorting & Graphing Mat
Use this mat with your favorite Valentine’s colored chocolate candies to practice sorting by color, graphing, and counting.
This product includes 3 activity mats:
- Colored hearts sorting
- Colored hearts graphing
- Colored hearts roll & graph (4 printable dice included!)
7. Conversation Heart Names
Grab some conversation hearts and let your little ones glue them straight onto their name! If your kiddo isn’t quite ready for the gooey glue bottle, pour some glue in a small cup and let them swipe it on with a q-tip.
This is a super fun way for preschoolers to practice their pincer grasp (fine motor skill) by placing one small item at a time onto their name, hand-eye coordination, gluing skills, name/letter formation, and creativity.
Plus, it’s always super yummy to eat the leftover candies at the end!
Some other options:
For your food-allergy kiddos or for a non-food option for your class, use heart stickers or any other art medium that works on pinching those little fingers.
Think…scrunching up tissue paper, dot painters, pom-poms, beads, etc!
8. There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose Retelling Activity
This book companion is perfect for practicing retelling, sequencing, vocabulary, and fine motor skills.
It’s an EASY PREP activity for you too!
9. Valentine’s Pattern Mats
These pattern mats will help your little learners practice building patterns right at their level.
The mats come in color, low-color, black and white, with and without color words, and blank spaces. This activity is so easy to differentiate!
10. Valentine’s Heart DIY Craft
Grab some paper towel rolls, sponges, or any other household or classroom supplies you have lying around to form easy heart shapes.
Let the creativity roll as little ones practice dipping the manipulatives into paint and stamping. Use red and pink construction paper as the base or grab some heart shaped paper for extra Valentine fun!
11. Conversation Heart Manipulatives
Conversation hearts, but make them manipulatives! Use a sharpie or edible marker to write letters or numbers, draw shapes… ANYTHING!
Play matching games, letter/number identification games, or throw in a sensory bin. And as always, be super careful when playing with tiny candies with little ones.
12. Valentine Name Crayon
Use this Crayon Name Craft as a companion activity after reading Love from the Crayons by Drew Daywalt. It’s the sweetest little story about how the different crayon colors represent the many different forms of love.
Practice following multi-step directions, name writing, and fine motor skills while assembling this crayon. Add a heart to make it extra festive!
13. Valentine Paper Bag
This SUPER easy and cheap Valentine Paper Bag is perfect to work on before class parties!
Paint white or brown paper bags with toilet paper rolls pressed and taped into a heart shape. Use red, pink, white, and purple paint to keep things festive. Little minds think this is so fun and is an amazing creative outlet for them!
This will become one of your favorite class painting projects and a tradition you come back to year after year.
14. Bee Mine Name Craft
This Valentine’s Bumble Bee Name Craft is great for name writing and name building skills! Students get one heart per letter of their name, then cut and glue their bumble bee together. Use a metallic sharpie to trace their letters so they stand out easier.
This resource is also editable with Adobe PDF so you can type in all of the letters you need and print them out if writing them seems too tedious for your taste.
No matter if you decide to do just one or all 14 of these Valentine’s activities in your Pre-K classroom, your little learners will be swooning over the cute, hands-on fun!
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