Discover fun Valentine’s Day activities and crafts for kids, including Valentine-themed practical life tasks, math DIYs, and sensory play designed to enhance fine motor skills, spark creativity, and build numeracy in preschoolers | FREE Printable.
Love is in the air, and so is the joy of learning! Welcome to our Valentine Activities for Preschoolers unit study! This special time of year is the perfect opportunity to nurture thoughtfulness, spark creativity, and have fun with hands-on learning.
We’ll be spreading love through playful, crafty activities that help little ones explore the joy of giving and making. From creating thoughtful Valentine’s gifts to crafting adorable DIY cards, this unit study is packed with ideas to inspire creativity and connection.
You’ll also find plenty of Valentine-themed learning activities, from art and writing to math and sequencing, designed to make learning fun and meaningful. Best of all, many of these Montessori-inspired activities are super easy to set up at home, with simple DIYs that keep it stress-free.
Follow along for all the love-filled inspiration, and start spreading Valentine’s cheer with your little ones!
Valentine’s Day Kids Activity Freebie for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners
Below, you will find activities arranged by the area of study. But before we dive in, grab the Freebie Activity Pack here!
Celebrate the season of love with a FREE Valentine’s Day Kids Activity Book – made with love and from the heart, this beautifully designed pack (featuring dreamy watercolor art) is perfect for little learners, helping them build:
Math Fun: Explore numbers and patterns with color-by-numbers!
Problem-Solving Skills: Navigate through creative and challenging mazes that boost critical thinking.
Tracing & Writing Practice: Strengthen handwriting and literacy skills with themed word tracing.
Counting & One-to-One Correspondence: Foster early math skills with rational counting activities.
Size Recognition: Build visual and cognitive skills by comparing and identifying sizes.
And so much more!
Valentine’s Montessori Kids Activities
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Fun Valentine’s Day Activities and Crafts for Kids
Valentine’s Day is a great time to celebrate love, creativity, and connection with your kids. Whether you’re planning a fun-filled afternoon for younger children or a bonding session with the whole family, these fun Valentine’s Day activities and easy crafts are the perfect way to make February 14th unforgettable. From heart-shaped cookie cutters to candy hearts, you’ll find the best ideas to keep kids of all ages entertained.
Melted Crayon Hearts Valentine Kids Activity
Instructions:
Start with a simple craft like making melted crayon hearts. All you need are broken crayons, heart-shaped molds, and a little imagination. This hands-on activity not only helps with fine motor skills but also encourages your child’s sense of creativity.
Another great activity is creating paper hearts for a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt. Hide them around your home and let the kids find them, pairing each heart with a sweet message or a fun fact about St. Valentine. This is a better way to combine fun with language skills!
Active and Calming Valentine’s Day Fun: Games and Sensory Play for Kids
Don’t forget the fun Valentine’s Day ideas for active play, like organizing a Valentine’s Day game. Create a child’s favorite game with a Valentine’s Day twist, such as bingo with candy hearts or a relay race carrying heart shapes. For a calming end to the day, make a sensory jar using glitter, water, and food coloring in Valentine’s hues—an activity that’s as soothing as it is beautiful.
Whether you’re crafting melted crayon hearts, playing a Valentine-themed game, or creating homemade valentines, these activities are a fun way to celebrate with your little ones. This February 14th, make it a great time filled with love, laughter, and creativity.
PRACTICAL LIFE Valentine Activities For Preschoolers
Pipe-Cleaner Heart Pony-Beads Threading
Pipe-Cleaner Heart Pencil Valentine Class Gift
Valentine Colander Threading Fine-Motor Activity
Valentine’s Day Painted Rocks
Scissors Primary Colors Pasta Cutting
DIY Valentines Heart Stickers-Scissors-Cutting
See HERE DIY Valentines Heart Stickers-Scissors-Cutting-Kids-Activity.
Needle Sewing Valentines Heart
Fusible Heart Gift
Did you know that you can make hearts, flowers, or even a frame for your Valentine with fusible beads? These tiny beads are an amazing tool to strengthen the small muscles of the hands and foster concentration. Read HERE Pixel Art Fusible Beads.
SENSORIAL Valentine Activities For Preschoolers
For a sensory twist, try a Valentine’s Day sensory bin filled with pink play dough, chocolate hearts, and heart-shaped sponges. These Valentine’s Day activities are ideal for younger children, offering tactile fun while keeping them engaged.
If you’re working with older children, they might enjoy making homemade valentines using a free printable template or crafting a love bug from pipe cleaners and googly eyes. Pair the crafting time with decorating Valentine’s Day cards for friends and family.
Valentines Foam Slime Hearts Cookie Cutters
Sensory + Fine Motor Fun with Foam Slime:
Instructions
- 1/2 cup of clear glue
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
- 1 tablespoon of borax powers
- few drops of red coloring
- add glitter
- add foam balls
- ~ mix well ~
- [Add last] ACTIVATOR: squirts of contact lens solution until the substance begins to bond and starts to come off of the sides of the plate (then mix well with the hands ~ you will notice in few minutes how the consistency begins to change, becoming less and less sticky);
- *if too sticky, add a few more drops of contact lens solution until it feels right ~be careful not to add too much as it will become brittle.
Fine Motor Sensory heaven! For more on slime, see here 🎅🏻 Santa ❤️ Red Slime DIY Jar (Science 🔬⚗️⚖️ 101 🎥Series 🎇)
See here Frozen Juice ❄️Ice 👄Lips 😋Taste Matching 🎥 Sensorial Activity.
Check out here our Valentine’s inspired Love ❤️️ Sensory Bin.
For detailed presentations, see here the introductory lesson on Knobless Cylinders.
See here ❤️Valentine’s ✨Glitter Sensory Bottle ~ Calming Jar.
Heart Peppermint Twist Candy STEM Experiment
The science behind, the color and sugar dissolve into the water and then diffuse through it.
Read here about the science behind this experiment, when we did a similar experiment but with Skittles ~ Colorful Skittles FunWater Science Experiment for Kids.
Language Valentine’s Activities For Preschoolers
Alphabet Seek & Find Sensory Bin
Making red rice was so simple! Just add a splash of vinegar to dry, uncooked rice, mix in some coloring, stir it all together, and let it dry. Easy, right?
Meanwhile, Adrian found new excitement in an old puzzle he hadn’t touched in ages. (Don’t you just love giving old toys a second life?) This time, we put a twist on it—he wore a blindfold (a trusty sleep mask) and had to find and identify letters purely by their shape using only his sense of touch.
It was such a blast! We kept taking turns, cheering each other on, and laughing the whole time. Who knew an old puzzle and some rice could spark so much fun?
We are using these alphabet letters.
MATH Valentine Activities For Preschoolers
Read a post here about Valentine’s Hearts Hundred Board.
See here the Odd and Even 📽️lesson where Adrian explains the concept of pairs.
Valentines Numbers Sequencing
What you need: clothespins, heart counters (we are using plastic ones from the Michale’s Store), a Sharpie, and a glue gun (to glue the hearts to the clothespins). Then, I wrote on four strips of paper number sequencing: 10-19, 20-19, 30-39, and 40-50 to reinforce number recognition and sequencing with teens and tens. For a younger child, write numbers 1-10 (like here) and have your child find a missing number. Did I mention that this is also an awesome fine-motor exercise for those little fingers
Read here Valentine’s inspired – Number Bingo for Early Math (Numbers 1-50).
Arts & Crafts Valentine Activities For Preschoolers
Luv Bug TPR Valentine Craft
“Rawr! Means I love you in Dinosaur!”
Little Tiny Learner inspired this card. I hope I was not the only one who was making Valentine’s Cards on Valentine’s Day! (Well, just a few extra ones Adrian decided to give out the day of.) Little Tiny Learner 🎨has a detailed description on her blog (see here) of how to make this awesome card, as well as a card template. Here are a few variations we have done:
- since I do not have a double-sided printer, I tried printing one page at a time and then re-inserting that same page, but for some reason, I made mistakes (either two pages printing on one or the layout was off), so I printed as the single page the next few cards and then just glued the backs together ~ and these cards came out thicker and more substantial which I liked;
- we used blue washable finger paint instead of the ink pads, which I did not have;
- neither did I have the Kwik Stix to draw the mouth, so using a glue gun, I secured the cut red pipe-cleaner; in addition to googly eyes,
- we also sprinkled glitter when the paint was still wet and added some Dino stamps (dipped into these craft ink pads) as embellishments.
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Making this card was also a great practice for Arian, as he had to write his name.
Little Blue Truck Handprint Card
See here Valentine’s 💝 Card ~Blue Truck 🚙 Foot Print~ Sending Loads of💗Love.
Julia and Adrian’s feet Art Projects, along with 36 Classroom Valentine’s Day Gifts (see below).
Valentines Learning Space
To see our shelf set up last year, see here Valentine’s Inspired Shelfies & Activities Roundup.
One of the books we like to read around Valentine’s is this book, which is perfect for a three or four-year-old child. The story of Saint Valentine is very sad, and this “Rookie” series book has just enough information for little ones to understand the holiday with big, colorful illustrations on each page spread.
I hope you enjoyed our Valentine’s Activities For Preschoolers! Please comment on which one was your favorite and which type of activities you would like to see more of!
For More Montessori Valentine Kids Activities
See HERE Valentine Practical Life Activities For Preschoolers.
For More Valentine’s Activities
Make here DIY Hearts Tactile Numbers Puzzle Math Boards
See here DIY Valentine’s I-Love-You From The Button of My Heart Card.
Did you know I offer Montessori Courses and Customized Curriculum Plans?
For More Valentine’s Day Crafts
A must-try, Watercolor Hearts Valentine’s Craft| Three Easy Painting Techniques is here.
Check out here the ‘Love is for EverGreen’ Valentine Kids Craft using nature punched-out heart leaves.
For details on the Handprint Hearts 3D Tree Valentine Kids Craft, click here.
Click here for details on the Growing Heart-Shaped Crystals Valentine’s Day Kids Science Experiment.
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