Valentine's DayKindergartnersPreschoolersToddlers4 Comments
Enjoy lovely Valentine’s Day activities with the kids for a fun week full of love!
I don’t usually go overboard with holidays (at least not too much). When it comes to blogging about our activities, its usually better if I start blogging about holiday activities 6+ weeks before the holiday.
And that just is too hard for me.
Even for Christmas, that’s hard!
So this week, I’m going to make it a lovely week with the kids to celebrate Valentine’s Day!
I planned a week of Valentine’s Day crafts and activities to do, and thought you might enjoy them too.
Here’s this week’s activities for Valentine’s Day:
Monday: Heart Garlands
Cut many hearts from red, purple, blue papers. Cut several long pieces of string to tape hearts onto. Hang in a window as garlands.
Supplies needed:
- paper
- scissors
- tape
- string, yarn or ribbon
Find details: Heart Garland for Valentine’s Day
Tuesday: Texture Heart Painting
Tape a heart on paper, then use unusual objects to paint! Make textures with combs, roll on the paint with a rolling pin! Remove the tape when dry.
Supplies needed:
- painter’s tape
- paper
- paint
- comb or fork
- rolling pin
Find details: Valentine Art for Toddlers: Scratch, Roll, Resist
Wednesday: Valentine Sensory Foam
Make sensory foam with dish soap and a little bit of water and red, pink or purple food coloring in a food processor. Put on a tray to explore!
Supplies needed:
- water
- dish soap
- food coloring
- food processor or blender
- tray
Find details: Soapy Sensory Foam Activity
Thursday: Stuffed Heart Valentines for Friends
Make Valentines for friends. Decorate paper to your desire. Cut a set of hearts out of the decorated paper and another set of hearts from plain paper. On the plain paper write ‘to:’ and ‘from:’ for Valentines. Staple hearts together half way. Fill with desired ‘Valentine’ (candy, play dough, or other surprises!) and staple heart closed, include a ribbon at the top for a handle.
Supplies needed:
- paper
- paint
- stapler
- Valentine gift
- ribbon
Find details: Stuffed Heart Valentines
Friday: H is for Heart
Cut a heart out of pink or red paper. Write in the middle “H is for Heart”. Write various letters around the edge of the object (with many of them being H or h). Find the letter that the object starts with and clip each with a paper clip.
Supplies needed:
- red or pink cardstock
- scissors
- marker
- paper clips or clothespins
Find details: Find the Letter on the Heart
Saturday: Healthy Heart Snack
Make a heart snack by spreading cream cheese on crackers. Dip end of celery in jam and stamp onto cream cheese to make hearts. Eat up!
Supplies needed:
- crackers
- cream cheese
- celery stick
- jam or jelly
Find details: Kid-Made Valentine Snacks for the Classroom
Sunday: ‘I Love You’ Scavenger Hunt
Go on an ‘I Love You’ scavenger hunt. Hide hearts (or just hide one a day) with words of how you love your child written on each heart.
Supplies needed:
- paper
- markers or pen
Find details: Valentine’s Scavenger Hunt to Find the Ways I Love You
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Tommy Wang @mumtip.com says
Whoa! I am finding some activities for our kid on Valentine day. Found your article.
What a list and great selection of unique activities. I am going to bookmark this.
Thank for sharing.
Tina Emezi says
Hi Jaime, My son and I make a valentine mailbox by wrapping a cereal box with brown paper and sticker bomb it with hearts. We write/draw to each other and at some point when he check his love box, he would find, on random days up to Valentine day, goodies (chocolate, Lego figures, bouncy ball etc.). I love your valentine scavenger hunt and I’m going to mix things up by hiding his heart notes with love words and a goody then drawing a map to where they are and placing the map in his valentine mailbox. Thanks Jaime for such awesome ideas. I look forward to them.
Charlotte says
I love these and hopefully will be doing the stuffed hearts and the scavenger hunt. I just wanted to let you know that the link for the stuffed hearts actually goes to learning with bubble wrap.
Jamie Reimer says
Thanks — fixed it :D