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!

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Planning your Valentine's Day Theme 

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Download our Free Valentine's Day Preschool Sample Lesson Plan

Featured Plan Activities

Below you’ll find activity ideas featured in our Nursery Rhymes sample plan.

Art & Creativity
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.

Dramatic Play
Flower Shop Dramatic Play
Explore the world of imaginative play with our 14-page dramatic play pack for kids! Transform any space into a vibrant pretend play flower shop with signs, labels, and printable props included. From the Welcome to the Flower Shop Sign to Flower Prices Poster-Price Sheet, create endless floral arrangements and let creativity blossom!

Building & Small World Play
Valentine's Day Small World Play
Add a variety of Valentine's day decor to your small world play space.

Language and Literacy
Conversation Hearts Letter Matching
Match uppercase and lowercase letters using conversation heart-themed cards.
Valentine's Day Party Read and Write Activity Set
Engage in a party of reading and writing with our specially crafted activity set.

Mathematics
Heart Tally Flip and Match Game
Introduce tally marks with a fun and interactive heart tally flip and match game.
Heart Sorting by Size
Develop size recognition skills with a heart sorting activity.

Science & Discovery
Dissolving Hearts
Preschooler love scientific explorations they can repeat again and again.

Physical Fine Motor
Valentine's Day Play Dough Mats
Foster creativity and build strong fine motor skills with this set of Valentine's Day Themed Play Dough Mats. Decorate Cookies, Build a bouquet, and create your own box of chocolates.

Physical Gross Motor
Musical 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.

Other
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.
Candy Shop Field Trip
Take a field trip to a chocolate shop or a virtual field trip to learn about how candy is made!

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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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.

Confetti Hearts

Collect your holes from hole punching or give little hands a BIG workout punching holes to create your own confetti!
Arrange the pile into hearts, take pictures to display!

​Valentine's Day Dance Ribbons

Following the same tutorial as our Rainbow Dance Ribbons, make Valentine's Themed Ribbons. Listen to some fun Valentine's Day Music and Dance using your dancing ribbons.

Balloon Painting

Provide balloons, red paint, and a heart cut out of cardstock. Preschoolers can dip their balloon in the paint and make prints. 

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More Valentine Theme Art & Creativity Preschool Activities from Around the Web

​Check out these other Preschool Art & Creativity Ideas From Around the Web!

​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

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.

Invitation to decorate the housekeeping space for Valentine's Day 

Add a box of Valentine's decor for the children to decorate their housekeeping 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.).

Build Hearts with Small Blocks

Create hearts out of a variety of building materials, learn shape attributes.

Valentine Pattern Block Mats

Add these Valentine's Inspired Pattern Block mats from Pre-K Printable Fun to your construction space this week.

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Valentine's Small World Play

Add a variety of valentine's day decor to your small world play space such as banners, signs, red and
pink streamers, hearts, and other mini decor.

​Create your own Valentine's Day Inspired Wooden Blocks

Gather some red wooden or plastic blocks in various shapes and sizes and some heart shaped stickers.  Place the stickers on the blocks.  Have your preschooler sort the blocks by size, shape, or create a pattern with the stickers.  

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More Valentine Theme Blocks and Small World Play Preschool Activities from Around the Web

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Make Hearts with Pipes

You can try Building Hearts with PVC Pipes from Little Bins for Little Hands

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
Pre-K Printable Fun

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Valentine's Day Party Literacy Activities

Support 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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Raining Hearts Craft
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Invite preschoolers to make these fun clouds with hearts as raindrops after reading The Day it Rained Hearts by Patricia Bond

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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​HEART Bingo Song

Practice spelling the word heart with a rhyme in the tune of bingo.
"To show you love your special friends, give them a heart.
H-E-A-R-T."

​ 5 Little Hearts Rhyme

Learn the 5-Little Hearts Rhyme from Kiboomers on YouTube.

Delivering Your Mail Preschool Book Companion

Our Preschool Delivering Your Mail Book Companion Set includes a carefully crafted collection of activities designed to complement the book; fostering early literacy skills, and vocabulary development.

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

Color heart matching

Our friends at Growing Up Montessori & Waldorf Inspired Hybrid matching colors with our candy heart color matching mat, found inside our Preschool 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 Preschool Valentines Day Activity Pack. 

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Valentine's Patterning

Practice 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.

Create Hearts from Craft Supplies

Use those chenille stems to create hearts and extend to create other shapes!

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 Goop

Mix up equal parts water and cornstarch then add in Valentine's Day colors, freeze and let your preschoolers enjoy.

Valentine's Theme Sensory Bin Inspiration

Red and White Sand

Red and white sand mixed in a sensory bin with accessories like measuring spoons and little hearts. 

Red and White Shredded Paper

Red and white shredded paper with pom poms and heart accessories is a fun exploration. 

Valentine's Day Sensory Bin Filler Ideas:
Pair these fillers in Valentine colors with fun accessories

• Flower Petals
• Sand
• Shredded Paper
• Colored Rice
• Heart Gems
• Pom Poms

• Aquarium Gravel
• Water Beads
• Cranberries
• Buttons in variety of sizes, include heart shapes
• Beads and chenille stems
  
• Heart shaped Cheerios
  
• Colored Pasta
  

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More Valentine's Day Theme Preschool Science & Discovery Activities From Around the Web

​Check out these other Preschool Science and Discovery Ideas From Around the Web!

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 Valentine's Day Pattern block mats.

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Valentine's Day Play Dough Mats

Build fine motor skills with these Valentine's Day play dough mats (MEMBERS ONLY) from Pre-K Printable Fun.  

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Fine Motor Heart

Create a heart shape on paper (optionally draw circles), preschoolers can fill the outline with play dough or red circle stickers

Pre-Writing/Tracing Practice

Set out Valentine Themed tracing and cutting practice for your preschooler to work on fine motor skills. Included in our Preschool Valentine's Day Activity Pack. 

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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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Musical 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. 

Chocolate Candy Gross Motor Relay

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.

Pink Kinetic Sand

Set up sensory play with pink or red kinetic sand and heart molds

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More Valentine Theme Physical Development Preschool Activities from Around the Web

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.

The People You Love

Take some time this week to talk about the people you love. Make a group collage or photo book 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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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.

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Valentine's Day Preschool Activity Pack

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Valentine's Day Pattern Block Mats

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Heart Sorting Activitiy Free

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Flower Shop Dramatic Play Pack

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Valentine's Day Play Dough Mats

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Positive Student Notes

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Pom Pom Sensory Bin Bubble Gum Math and Literacy Preschool Sorting Mats

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Year of Parent Engagement Newsletters (Editable) and Take Home Activities

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