Valentine’s Day Activities – Preschool & Kindergarten

I don’t know about you, but I think Valentine’s Day has some of the best activities to incorporate fun themed learning into your day. It creates the perfect opportunity to combine learning and fun through math and literacy activities that your preschool and kindergarten students will love! With hearts, love, and friendship your day will be filled with engaging activities that not only entertain but also educate. 

There are a variety of ways to fill your day with educational activities based on valentines’ themes. These activities will help make learning fun for your young children. These activities will build on their literacy skills with engaging read-alouds, letter tracing, and alphabet matching worksheets. There will also be valentine math activities that works on early math skills such as sorting, graphing, and patterns.  

Valentines Literacy Activities

1. Heart Letter Puzzles

Help your students learn their upper and lowercase letters with this fun puzzle activity.

How to Use:

• Cut out hearts on paper and write uppercase letters on one half of the heart and the matching lowercase letters on the other half. Then cut the hearts in half. 
• Mix up the hearts and have your students put the puzzles together by matching the uppercase and lowercase letters. 

Skills Practiced:

• letter recognition
• problem solving

2. Valentine Letter Tracing

Let your students practice writing their letters by using tracing worksheets. 

3. Valentine Read-Aloud

One of my favorite valentine literacy activities is to do a read-aloud. Kids learn so much through listening to adults read to them. 

Valentines Math Activities 

Activities using Conversation Hearts: 

My favorite Valentine’s Day math activities include conversation hearts. I mean is there a better way to practice our basic math skills than with a little candy! All you need for this valentine’s day math activity is a box of candy hearts for each of your students. 

1. Heart Counting Mats

Help your preschool and kindergarten students to develop number recognition and one-to-one correspondence with heart-themed counting mats. Draw a large heart on a piece of paper with a number written inside the heart. You can make several mats with different numbers in the hearts. 

How to Use:

• Print and laminate the mats for durability
• Use candy hearts or small heart-shaped counters
• Ask your young learners to count out the correct number of hearts to match the number on the mat.

Skills Practiced:

• Number recognition
• Counting with one-to-one correspondence 
• Fine motor skills

2. Heart Sorting Activity

Now let your young learners sort their conversation hearts by color. You can make your own sorting mat by drawing circles on a piece of paper and labeling the circles with the corresponding color word. 

How to Use:

• Print and laminate the mats for durability
• Use candy hearts or small heart-shaped counters
• Have your students sort the hearts by color, count how many of each color, and write the number beside each color 

Skills Practiced:

• Sorting and categorization
• Color recognition
• number writing practice

3. Heart Graphing Activity

Turn sorting into a graphing lesson with a heart graphing activity. Use printable graphing templates alongside colored hearts.

How to Use:

• Print out a graphing sheet with columns labeled by color.
• Use candy hearts or small heart-shaped counters
• Have your students use the information from the heart sorting activity above and make a graph showing how many hearts of each color

Skills Practiced:

• Introduction to data representation
• Color recognition
• number identification practice 

Activities using Valentine Hearts:

The following activities may not include candy hearts, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t just as much fun. Your young learners will love these hands-on activities that continue with the valentine’s day heart theme. 

1. Heart Shape Matching

Shapes are a fundamental concept in early math. Valentine heart shapes come in all sizes, making them perfect for a matching game.

How to Use:

• Print out heart shapes of various sizes and patterns.
• Cut the hearts in half using zigzag or wavy lines.
• Mix up the pieces and challenge your preschool students or kindergarten students to find the matching halves.

Skills Practiced:

• Shape recognition
• Problem-solving

2. Heart Patterns

Pattern recognition is another essential early math skill, and Valentine’s Day math worksheets make it extra fun.

3. Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt 

Turn your math activity into an adventure with a Valentine-themed scavenger hunt. Provide clues and tasks involving numbers, shapes, and hearts.

How to Use:

• Create or print cards with simple math-related tasks (e.g., “Find 5 red hearts” or “Count 3 pink flowers”).
• Hide the cards around the house or classroom.
• Let your young learners search for the cards and complete the tasks.

Skills Practiced:

• Counting
• Following directions
• Active engagement

Need some help with all of these fun Valentine’s Day Activities?

Download our FREE Valentine’s Day Unit Study. It has 12 valentine activities that your child will love! 

The Unit Study Includes:

• fun math activities like patterns, counting, and a number word worksheet
• literacy activities like alphabet matching and letter tracing
• a color word book
• I-Spy, a maze, cupcake decorating, and tic-tac-toe

Valentine’s Day printables are a fantastic way to bring festive joy to your preschool or kindergarten students. With hearts and fun math activities, you’ll create memorable moments filled with love, laughter, and learning. Whether you’re a homeschool mom or a teacher, these ideas will help make the holiday extra special for your little learners. 

Let the heart-filled fun begin! ♥