Preschool Valentine's Day Theme
Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Preschool Valentine's Day activities to add to your lesson plans!
Valentine's Day Preschool Lesson Planning
Use the ideas found on this page to help you plan your own preschool Valentine's Day Lessons.
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Valentine's Day Theme Map
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Add plenty of Card Making supplies to your Free Art area this week. Add extra red, pink and purple paint, crayons, and pens. Add Valentine's inspired stamps, heart cookie cutters, and Valentine's stickers. Explore making the color Pink this week.
Heart Sun Catcher
Add some heart decor to your learning environment by making these fun heart suncatchers with your preschoolers.
The outside shape is a heart leaving your preschoolers to pick and choose colors that look good to them to complete the interior. See all the details on my blog |
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Valentine Box Craft Tutorial
Make a little box for valentines and an adorable love bug with your preschoolers. Find all the steps on my blog.
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Squiggle Paint
The kids from Building Blocks painted with chenille stems that were wrapped around a pencil to make a squiggle. They dipped the stem in Valentine color paint and then painted freely.
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Heart Cookie Cutter Printing
Set up this simple invitation with cookie cutters and paint. Children simply choose a color, dip the cookie cutter in the paint and then stamp on the paper.
Include cookie cutters with texture and multiple sizes for added interest. |
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More Art and Craft Valentine Theme Preschool Ideas
Spin Art Hearts from Teaching 2 and 3 year olds
Chocolate and Strawberry Play dough from Happy Hooligans
Valentines Bird Feeders from Kids Craft Room
Valentine Relief Paintings from Playground Park Bench
Cookie Cutter Painting for Valentine's Day from Hands on as we Grow
Chocolate and Strawberry Play dough from Happy Hooligans
Valentines Bird Feeders from Kids Craft Room
Valentine Relief Paintings from Playground Park Bench
Cookie Cutter Painting for Valentine's Day from Hands on as we Grow
Add a box of Valentine's decor for the children to decorate their dramatic play space. Add a Box of Dress Up Clothes, Pretend Jewelry, and items to set the table for a formal occasion (Tablecloth, Place mats, battery operated candles etc.).
Flower Shop
Create a Flower Shop in your Dramatic Play Space this week. Add plastic vases (you can usually find these at the Dollar Store), Fake Flowers, Tissue Paper, note cards, and empty boxes of chocolates to your space. Don't forget to add a play phone, and note pad for taking orders.
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My flower shop dramatic pack includes all of the props, signs, and order forms you'll need to easily transform your space.
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Chocolate Shop
Add a variety of empty chocolate boxes/gift boxes, mini cupcake liners, and brown pom pom "candy" to your storefront. Add a scale, tongs, wrapping paper, or gift bags. Set a place to write your own gift cards.
Build Hearts
Create hearts out of a variety of building materials, learn shape attributes.
You can try Building Hearts with PVC Pipes from Little Bins for Little Hands
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Add these Valentine's Inspired Pattern Block mats from Pre-K Printable Fun to your construction space this week.
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Add Valentine's Day Decor to your Small World Space
Add a variety of valentine's day decor to your small world play space, banners, signs, red and
pink streamers, hearts, and other mini decor.
pink streamers, hearts, and other mini decor.
Valentine's Day Card Making Station
Create a card making station in your writing center by adding festive art supplies along with my free Valentine's Day Word Bank available on my Valentine's Day Card Making blog post.
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Conversation Hearts Letter Matching
Conversation Hearts Letter Matching activity
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Valentine's Day Party Literacy ActivitiesSupport early reading and writing development with the activities in my Valentine's Day Party Literacy Pack such as this fun rebus story, writing prompt and more
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Book and a Craft
Sheena W. invited her preschoolers to make these fun clouds with hearts as raindrops after reading The Day it Rained Hearts by Patricia Bond
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CVC Sweet Word Building
Support letter identification and phoneme recognition with this fun word building activity.
Included in my Valentine's Day Preschool Activity Pack |
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If You'll Be My Valentine* by Cynthia Rylant and Fumi Kosaka
Love, Ruby Valentine by Laurie Friedman and Lynne Avril
Love, Splat by Rob Scotton
Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter Reynolds
The Berenstain Bears Valentine's Day Party by Mike & Jan Berenstain
Love, Ruby Valentine by Laurie Friedman and Lynne Avril
Love, Splat by Rob Scotton
Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter Reynolds
The Berenstain Bears Valentine's Day Party by Mike & Jan Berenstain
Color heart matching
Our friends at Growing Up Montessori & Waldorf Inspired Hybrid matching colors with our candy heart color matching mat, found inside our Valentine's Day activity pack.
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Heart tally flip and match
Build math skills with this heart tally flip and match game from the Pre-K Printable Fun Valentine's Day Activity Pack.
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Heart puzzle
Our friends at Growing Up Montessori & Waldorf Inspired Hybrid practicing ordering numbers from 1-10 with the Puzzle inside our Valentines Day Activity Pack.
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Valentine's Patterning
Our friends at Erica's Educare Learning Center practicing their patterning using our patterning hearts card strips, found inside our Valentine's Day activity pack.
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Counting roses game
Our friends at Growing Up Montessori & Waldorf Inspired Hybrid practicing their counting with our rolling roses game, found inside our Valentine's Day activity pack.
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Sort Hearts by Size
Learning to sort and categorize by one or more attributes is essential for early math skills.
This simple sorting by size activity is a great way to support preschool development. Find this activity in my Valentine's Day Preschool Activity Pack |
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Which Red Item is Missing ?
For this game, gather a collection of 3-5 red items. Have you students close their eyes. Remove an item and have your students guess the item you removed. You can increase the difficulty of this game by adding more items to your collection.
Valentine's Day Slime
Slime is great anytime!
This easy Valentine's Slime tutorial will help guide you and your preschooler in making some great slime to manipulate during this lovely time. |
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Frozen Vinegar Hearts
Preschooler love scientific explorations they can repeat again and again.
Find the details for this fun scientific preschool activity on my blog |
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Valentine's Goop
Mix up equal parts water and cornstarch then add in Valentine's Day colors, freeze and let your preschoolers enjoy.
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Valentine's Theme Sensory Bin Inspiration
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Valentine's Day Sensory Bin Filler Ideas:
Pair these fillers in Valentine colors with fun accessories
Pair these fillers in Valentine colors with fun accessories
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More Valentine's Day Theme Science & Discovery Activities
Touch and Feel Hearts from Pleasantest Thing
Valentine's Day Light Table Invitation from And Next Comes L
How to make Rock Candy from Powerful Mothering
12 Sensory Bin Fillers for Valentine's Day from Little Bins for Little Hands
Valentine's Day Pattern Blog Mats
Try your hand at creating Valentine's Day objects using these pattern block mats.
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Valentine's Day Play Dough Mats
Build fine motor skills with these Free Valentine's Day play dough mats from Pre-K Printable Fun.
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Pre-Writing/Tracing Practice
Set out Valentine Themed tracing and cutting practice for your preschooler to work on fine motor skills
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Sweet Fine Motor Development
Playing with mini pom poms is a super fun way for preschoolers to work on fine motor development. This sweet bubble gum sensory bin combines fine motor, sensory play with math or literacy development.
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Music Hearts
For this fun take on Musical chairs, in a circle, place 1 large heart on the ground for each student. Start this game by having each student stand on a heart. Play your favorite music and remove a heart. As the music is playing the students walk around the heart circle, and stop of a heart when the music stops playing. The student that doesn't have a hear to stand on is "out". Play repeats, removing a heart each time, until there is only one player left.
Valentine's Day Gross Motor Game
For this game you'll need an empty Chocolate Candy Box and pretend candy (or brown pom poms). Place the candy box in the center of the space, and disperse the "candy" around the room. Encourage the children to hop, skip, crawl, etc. to gather the candy and return it to the box.
Free Valentine's Daycare Circle Time Songs and Activities from Parenting Chaos
Candy Shop Field Trip
Take a field trip to a chocolate shop or a virtual field trip to learn about how candy is made! Try this video about how candy canes are made
Calm Down Strategy
Teach preschoolers a theme related calm down strategy. This page from the Calm Down Binder is a visual for encouraging preschooler to practice taking a deep breath.
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Random Act of Kindness Display
Create a display with your preschoolers to encourage them to carry out and then talk about their Random Acts of Kindness.
Community Helpers Collage
Community Helpers are special people. Make a collage featuring all of the different community helpers in your town. For some added appreciation you can make them a special card this week.
The People You Love
Take some time this week to talk about the people you love. Make a group collage by writing their names. or adding their photos to a group art piece.
Positive Student Notes
Send a lovely flower themed note to let your preschoolers know you recognize the good job they are doing!
My set of Positive Student Notes has thematic notes that are fun to share with your preschoolers. |
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Preschool Family Engagement
Support families in being a part of their child's education with the newsletters from my Parent Engagement Pack.
The month of February offers ideas for theme related books and Valentine related activity suggestion. |
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Valentine Themed Sign-in Activity
Practice name recognition with this fun themed attendance activity. Part of the Attendance Activities from PKPF
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Write a Family Valentine
Set out a variety of materials for you and your preschooler to create Valentine's Day cards for family members and friends.
Community Activities
Check out the calendar at your library to see if they are offering any Valentine themed group activities. Many libraries offer a craft or reading hour weekly.
