Valentine’s Day activities for elementary school, including poetry, student gifts, FREE printable game, heart pockets for cards, and more!
I love February and all the fun we get to have with kids this month!
We learn about Groundhog’s Day, Chinese New Year, 100’s Day, and Valentine’s Day. For the shortest month of the year, it is the most jam-packed with activities.
We learn about Groundhog’s Day, Chinese New Year, 100’s Day, and Valentine’s Day. For the shortest month of the year, it is the most jam-packed with activities.
Valentine’s Day Activities
Today I am sharing some of my favorite Valentine’s Day activities for elementary school.
Every year we must make something to hold the valentines we make for each other. My go-to fav is the heart pocket! Click HERE to view my full post and instructions on how you can make these in your class.
Each year I try to change them up a bit. Sometimes I give them white hearts to draw, color and decorate. Sometimes we start with red or pink hearts that we decorate with hearts, etc.
We hang them along with a bulletin board, so they are open at the top. My students can then add their Valentine’s throughout the week. We usually have a party on Friday when the kids get to open and read all their Valentine’s. Love seeing the smiles and hearing all the “Thank YOU’s!”
Of course, our poem for the week is about Valentine’s Day! We read and practice the poem all week and complete language arts activities to go along with the poem.
My students love having some “FUN” with learning during these special events. I put together these Valentine’s Day activity books for them to work on during the week for morning work and during free time. They enjoy them so much. They don’t even realize that they are learning and reviewing skills (compound words, making words, word search, ABC order, and much more).
Everyone who knows me knows how I LOVE teaching art and doing art projects in the classroom. I love having my class create fun and interesting projects. Many of these projects are based on our theme. The two art projects above are 2 of my favorite projects for Valentine’s Day.
Of course, I always give my students a valentine from me. I try to be creative, and last year I came across these fun non-food printable valentines from Rachelle Smith. I grabbed these awesome heart straws and eraser rings from target to attach to the valentine. They were a huge hit. The parents loved them too!
Free Valentine’s Day Game
My favorite game to play with my class on Valentine’s Day is called Action Hearts, and it’s a FREEBIE for you to download today!
To play, print out the hearts, and cut. Have your class sit in a circle and lay the hearts upside down all over the carpet. Then take turns turning over the hearts and completing the “actions” on the heart. Your class will have a blast acting like animals, spelling words, and telling their friends why they like them!
Valentine’s Day Classroom Resource
The activities seen in this post are from my Valentine’s Day Fun Pack HERE. Head to my store to check out this pack. It includes 80+ pages and has language arts, math, and art activities in it.
More Valentine’s Day Activities
Thanks for sharing all these love-ly ideas, Elyse!
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Linda
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Thanks again Linda!
Elyse 🙂
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