View our Valentine’s Day activities and lesson plan samples below. Our program offers fun ideas and easy to use lesson plans for teaching children about Valentine’s Day with our fun hands–on learning activities for preschool kids ages 2.5 to 6
We have a full week of preschool Valentine’s Day theme activities in our preschool February curriculum lesson plans. Our February curriculum includes four weeks of lesson plans, each day has a circle time, story time, words to songs and rhymes, pre–reading, math, science, gross motor and a special activity! Super fun and affordable you can purchase the entire month for only $15.00! Click here to view
Our pompom color game is super fun for the kids and so easy for you to set up.
Children will use their fine motor skills by pinching into the pompoms to pick them and then they will use their hand and eye coordination by placing the pompoms onto the circles on the heart.
This is such a fun way for kids to learn their colors and have a lot of fun at the same time!
Super fun color activity for preschool kids, all you need are some pompoms, white copy paper and a printer and then watch the learning begin!
Whiskers The Valentine Cat Book. Whiskers the cat wants to make valentines for all her friends.
This cute printable story shows Whiskers the cat giving out all the valentines she made to all her friends.
For a nice little suprise there are three Valentine’s Day activity pages at the end of the book for the kids.
Tune to: Are You Sleeping
Are you happy? Are you happy?
{Hold up happy face puppet}
Pink heart, pink heart
{point at pink heart}
Show me your smile, show me your smile,
{Point to smile on puppets face}
Ha, ha, ha – ha, ha, ha
Are you sad? Are you sad?
{Hold up sad puppet}
Pink heart, pink heart
{point at pink heart}
See that frown, see that frown,
{Point to frown on puppets face}
Boo, hoo, hoo – boo, hoo, hoo
{Pretend to cry and pretend to wipe eyes}
Have the children make their heart puppets first and then use them with the rhyme above. The directions for making the heart puppets can be found in our February preschool curriculum lesson plans. Our lesson plans include a song or rhyme each day {5 days per week}.
The heart is this months shape. Our lesson plans include a daily craft {5 days per week}.
Fun and simple crafts that engage the children and help them to focus on the colors they are learning about this week.
There are seven cards to print out, these cards cover the entire alphabet.
This is a fun engaging activity to help the kids focus on matching up the letters on the alphabet boards.
Provide the children with matching letters to put onto the cards, instructions for this activity can be located in our February preschool curriculum week 2 lesson plans for Valentine’s Day.
Fine Motor Activity That Teaches Numbers!
Print out, laminate and then give each of the children a card and some straws, have them push the straws into the holes on the card,
after they are done, have them tell you the number on the card and see if they can count the straws, then give them another card to put the straws inside the holes,
continue until the children lose interest.
Instructions for this activity can be found in our February preschool curriculum week 2 for our Valentine’s Day lesson plans.
Our February preschool curriculum includes 4 weeks of lesson plans which includes circle time, story time, song or rhyme, pre reading, math, science, gross motor movement & a special activity each day {5 days per week}.
The pink one goes here and the white one goes here and ha ha the green one goes in my mouth!
During science time today have the kids sort the candy hearts and then have them do a taste test to see if the pink ones taste different than the yellow ones.
If you don't want to use candy with the kids in your care, you can substitute paper hearts instead and have them sort the paper hearts to the mat.
Fun gross motor activity can be played inside or outside. Print out the hearts, laminate and cut them out. Teacher will hide the hearts around the room or outside in the play area and have the children find them, whoever finds the most, gets to hide them next, repeat until the children lose interest. The cute hearts can be found in our Preschool February curriculum lesson plans.
Fun sensory activity that teaches numbers.
Our curriculum lesson plans includes a special activity each day which could be a craft, a game, fine motor activity, dramatic play, etc. {5 days per week}
Click here to view our February preschool curriculum which includes a full week of Valentine’s Day lesson plans.
Click here to view our February toddler curriculum which includes a full week of Valentine’s Day lesson plans.