Valentine's Day Activities and Crafts for Preschoolers

1/31/2024

Valentine's Day Activities and Crafts for Preschoolers

Are you looking for engaging preschool activities for Valentine's Day? Look at our list of activities for your classroom. Valentine's Day is a fun holiday to celebrate with your preschoolers and promote friendship and love! From sensory activities to art or math and literature, we have you covered with engaging activities. You can add these activities to center time, whole group, or even use them with your own kids at home.

Love is in the air! And, our Valentine's Day theme page is perfect for helping you plan activities to celebrate with your preschoolers.

These activities are designed to make Valentine's Day super special for your preschoolers. As a teacher, you can bring the magic of love and friendship into your classroom, making everyone feel happy and connected. These simple and fun experiences will make this Valentine's Day a really happy and memorable time for you and your little learners.

Valentine's Day Book Picks

Curl up with your little one and explore heartwarming Valentine's books that celebrate love and friendship. Choose from our recommended selection of charming stories that will captivate your preschooler's imagination and reinforce the importance of love.

Card Making Station

Let the creativity flow as your preschoolers craft their own Valentine's Day cards. Set up a crafting station with colored paper, stickers, and crayons. Guide them through making personalized love notes for family and friends. This simple activity not only enhances fine motor skills but also teaches the joy of expressing affection.

Valentine's Card Making Station for Preschoolers

Sweet Treats: Valentine's Day Snack Creation

Bring the kitchen alive with easy, healthy and tasty preschool Valentine's Day snack ideas! Create heart-shaped sandwiches, assemble fruit kabobs, or decorate cookies with festive sprinkles. Engage your preschooler in the preparation process, turning snack time into a memorable bonding experience.

Simple and Healthy Valentine Snacks preschoolers can make

Valentine's Day Dance Party

Turn up the music for a Valentine's Day dance party! Curate a playlist of upbeat and love-themed songs. Encourage your little ones to showcase their dance moves, fostering creativity and physical activity. Don't forget to join in on the fun—creating special memories together.

Valentine's Day Dance Ribbons

Dance Ribbons will make the perfect accessory to your Valentine's Day dance party! Take a look at this Preschool Dance Ribbon tutorial and substitute the colors for pinks, reds, and purples to make your dance ribbons Valentine's Day themed!

Preschool Dance Ribbon Tutorial

Kindness Rocks

Instill the spirit of love and kindness by engaging in simple acts of compassion. Encourage your preschooler to share toys, give compliments, or help a friend. These small gestures create a positive atmosphere and teach valuable lessons about empathy. Download our Free Kindness Challenge Resource Set for

Valentine's Day Slime

Happy valen-slime day! And, I am sure you probably know that here at Pre-K Printable Fun, we love slime. Slime is a great activity that can be made with your preschoolers, not only is it an excellent sensory activity- it helps them learn to follow recipes and reminds them of the importance of listening to directions. Give this Valentine's Day slime recipe a try, and it's always an excellent option for a non-candy gift to give your preschoolers.

Valentine's Day Slime Recipe

Dissolving Hearts

This Dissolving Hearts science exploration is easy to set up, low cost and preschoolers love it! Setting up opportunities for scientific explorations is an important part of every preschooler's education.

Valentine's Dissolving Hearts Science Exploration

Colorful Candy Experiment

Use candy hearts to explore color mixing. Watch as your little scientist observes the magic of colors blending together. Or, try dissolving them in different liquids to see what happens!

Valentine's Day Mailbox

Preschoolers will love making this adorable love bug themed Valentine's Mailbox. This is an easy craft for preschoolers to make that has plenty of room for individual creativity!

Valentine's Love Bug Mailbox Tutorial

Sun Catcher Hearts

Sun-catchers are one of my favorite activities to use for all different holidays and seasons. They are not only adorable to display but it puts those fine motor skills to work! With a simple materials, and a heart template this Heart sun catcher is a must-do activity for Valentine's Day!

Heart Suncatcher Tutorial

Valentine's Day Play Dough Mats

Grab your red, pink, and purple play dough and decorate hearts, cookies, and roses with this free Valentine Play Dough Mat printable

Valentine Day Pattern Blocks

Who says Valentine's Day is a holiday for adults? Preschoolers love pink, red, hearts, and all the sparkles! And, they love to show their friends and family how much they mean to them. Pattern blocks are a great way to not only teach your preschoolers some Valentine's Day vocabulary but to work on patterning and fine motor skills, too!

Conversation Hearts

Now is about when the stores are filled with some classic Valentine's Day candy, and conversation hearts are a classic. Conversation hearts can be used for in many different ways with preschoolers. Graphing colors, making patterns and sorting the colors. Incorporate tweezers to work on those tiny muscles while sorting. Our Valentine's Day pack includes some fun activities for you to pair with conversation hearts.

The Night Before Valentine's Day Book Companion

The Night Before Valentine's Day is the perfect book to read leading up to Valentine's Day! Read the story with your students and pair it with our book companion.

Valentine's Day Treat Bag Toppers

Are you gifting treat-bags to your students or maybe your kids will be giving Valentine treat-bags. These Valentine's Day Treat Bag toppers are a free download for our members and they make the perfect add-on to your bags.

Member Only Valentine's Day Treat Toppers

Valentine's Day Flower Shop

Flowers are a favorite on Valentine's Day! Encourage your preschoolers to set-up their own Valentine's Day flower shops with our Flower Shop Dramatic Play pack!

Flower shop preschool dramatic play

And, educators we know how busy this time of year can be...so, don't forget to download our Valentine's Day self-care checklist!

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