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    Home » Theme Based Learning Activities

    Published: Feb 5, 2023 · Modified: Jun 7, 2023 by Fynn · All activities should be supervised by an adult. This post may contain affiliate links.

    20 Delightful Valentine Printables and Activities for Preschoolers

    Inside: A heart-filled list of Valentine printables and activities to enjoy with your children on Valentine’s Day. Also, find a free Valentine printable pack for preschoolers in this post!

    Valentine’s Day can be such a fun and engaging holiday for little ones. Since it’s all about celebrating the people you love and showering them with affection and tokens of appreciation, young children are especially gifted at knowing how to connect with this holiday and make it meaningful. 

    Jump to:
    • Fun Facts about Valentine’s Day for Kids
    • Celebrate Valentine’s Day with these Valentine Themed Learning Activities
    • 20 Valentine Printables and Activities for Kids
    • Download the Free Valentine Printable Pack! 
    • More tips for celebrating Valentine’s Day with your Kids

    Fun Facts about Valentine’s Day for Kids

    Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th every year. It is named after Saint Valentine, a Catholic priest who lived in the 3rd century. People often give flowers, chocolates, and cards to their loved ones on Valentine's Day. The heart shape and the colour red are often associated with Valentine's Day because they are symbols of love.

    Celebrate Valentine’s Day with these Valentine Themed Learning Activities

    The Valentine’s Day printables and learning activities you’ll find below incorporate fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, early literacy, counting and more. They are designed to get your child interested in and excited about the heart shape and its symmetry, the bright pinks, purples, and reds, and the beautiful patterns so frequently seen in this holiday. These Valentine themed printables and activities will get your kiddo seeing hearts everywhere!

    20 Valentine Printables and Activities for Kids

    Scroll down to download the free Valentine Printable Pack!

    1) Colour my Heart

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 6 years old
    • Activity instructions: Colour the 5 small hearts on the left with 5 different colours. Colour the spaces in the big heart by following the colours in the 5 small hearts. For example, if the small heart with letter H is red, you will colour all the spaces with letter H red. Use the uppercase letter version for 3 to 4 years old and the lowercase letter one for 5 to 6 years old.
    Letter Matching and Colour printable for Valentine's Day
    Letter Matching and Colour printable for Valentine's Day

    2) Way to my Heart Valentine Printable

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Write letter H on 20 dot stickers.
    • Activity instructions: Paste dot stickers over the letter Hs in the grid to help Cupid’s arrow find its way to the big red heart.
    Help Cupid's arrow find its way to the big red heart by following all the Letter H. This is a Valentine's Day printable for kids.

    3) Complete my Hearts

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 5 years old
    • Activity instructions: Cut out the right halves of the hearts. Complete the hearts by pasting the right and left halves with matching patterns together.
    Complete the hearts by pasting the right and left halves with matching patterns together. Valentine printable for kids

    4) You Fill my Heart Valentine Printable Activity

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Write numbers 1 to 6 in the circles below the big heart and colour the circles in 6 different colours. Write the same numbers in the circles in the big heart. Write the same number 5 times in random positions. 
    • TIP: You can use bigger numbers, or simple Math problems for older children.
    • Activity instructions: Colour the circles in the big heart according to the numbers and colours of the 6 circles at the bottom of the page. You can use dot stickers too for more fine motor practice. Keep the printable for the next activity.
    Simple dot the matching number in a big heart Valentine printable activity for preschoolers

    5) Fill my Heart Sensory Bag

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 6 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Add one cup of water and 30 pom poms of 6 different colours into the large zipper bag. Carefully squeeze out the air and seal the zipper bag. Slot the printable from Activity 4 under the zipper bag. Using painter’s tape, secure the sensory bag to the table.
    • Activity instructions: Move the pompoms to the circles in the heart with the same colours. 
    Move the pompoms in the zipper bag to the circles in the heart with the same colours. 

    6) Counting Hearts Puzzles 1

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 4 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Prepare 15 dot stickers.
    • Activity instructions: Paste the dot stickers in the circles according to the numbers. 
    Counting the number of dots on the right side of the heart and make it to the left half of the heart with the matching number.

    7) Counting Hearts Puzzles 2

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Cut out the heart puzzle pieces. Mix the puzzle pieces up and place them on the table.
    • Activity instructions: Find the two halves of a heart with a number and matching number of dots. ‘Mend the broken heart’ by pasting the two halves of the hearts together with sticky tape.
    A simple counting 1 to 5 heart puzzle Valentine printable for preschoolers

    8) Make 10 Heart Puzzles

    • Recommended ages: 5 to 7 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Cut out the heart puzzle pieces. Mix the puzzle pieces up and place them on the table.
    • Activity instructions: Find the two halves of a heart with dots that add up to 10. Then ‘mend the broken hearts’ by pasting the two halves of the hearts together with sticky tape.
    A counting to 10 Valentine printable for kids

    Download the Free Valentine Printable Pack! 

    No sign up needed! Download the Valentine's Day printable pack and have fun with these Valentine printable activities!

    Note: If you cannot access the file with your mobile phone, please try again using a desktop or laptop.

    9) Match the Rainbow Hearts

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Prepare 7 hearts in 7 different colours. Cut them in half and paste each half on a wooden clothespin. Prepare a long strip of cardboard and draw 7 hearts in the same 7 colours. 
    • Activity instructions: Find the two halves of a heart with the same colour. Attach them on the piece of cardboard where the drawn heart with the same colour is.
    A colour matching Valentine activity for preschooler to hone their motor skills

    10) Paper Towel Rainbow Heart Reveal

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 5 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Draw 12 hearts on a paper towel. Colour a second piece of paper towel and place it on top of the first paper towel.
    • TIP: You can include the names of the colours in the hearts of the top paper towel. Then colour the second piece of paper towel accordingly for colour matching practice.
    • Activity instructions: Paint the hearts with water and watch the colours magically appear. Name the colours that appear.
    Fun colour reveal water painting Valentine theme activity for preschoolers

    11) H is for Heart

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 5 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Write uppercase letter H and lowercase letter h on a large piece of paper. Fold the ends of two TP rolls into heart shapes. Dispense red and pink paint on a flat paint palette.
    • Activity instructions: Press the TP rolls onto the red or pink paint and stamp a red heart on uppercase letter H and a pink heart on lowercase letter h.
    Learn uppercase and lowercase letter H using DIY heart shaped TP roll stamps -  a fun literacy Valentine activity for preschooler

    12) Popsicle Stick Heart Puzzle

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 6 years old
    • To prepare the activity: Place 7 jumbo popsicle sticks side by side and secure with sticky tape. Carefully flip over the popsicle sticks. Draw hearts in rainbow colours on the popsicle sticks. Remove the sticky tape and jumble up the popsicle sticks. 
    • TIP: For older children, they can draw rainbow hearts on their own.
    • Activity instructions: Arrange the popsicle sticks to create the rainbow hearts picture again.

    13) Find the Hearts

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 5 years old
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    14) Cupid Arrow Counting

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old
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    15) Duplo Hearts Letter Matching

    Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old

    Duplo blocks with hearts and letters on them and kids will do uppercase and lowercase letter matching. This is a Valentine activity for preschoolers.

    16) Rainbow Hearts Loose Parts Line Up

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 6 years old
    Rainbow Hearts Loose Parts Line Up activity for children

    17) Symmetry Hearts Printing

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 6 years old
    Symmetry Hearts Printing, a valentine's day activity for children!

    18) Cutting Hearts

    • Recommended ages: 3 to 5 years old
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    19) Dot the Hearts

    • Recommended ages: 2 to 5 years old
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    20) Duplo Heart Symmetry

    • Recommended ages: 4 to 6 years old
    Using Duplo blocks to make a heart and learning symmetry

    More tips for celebrating Valentine’s Day with your Kids

    Exploring Valentine’s Day with little ones is full of meaning because it provides an opportunity to see love as a verb. Chat with your little ones about ways they can:

    • show the people we love that we love them
    • spread kindness in our homes, schools and communities?
    • brighten someone’s day 

    No matter how you choose to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your little ones, make sure you keep some aspects of the holiday as simple and close to your heart as you can. Valentine’s Day really is all about love. Say I love you, show love to the people you care about most, and find ways to live love as a verb, beyond February 14th. And then, when the holiday rolls around every year, you can use it to remind you to up your love game all over again! Happy love day, friends!

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    Fynn is a Math and Science teacher from Singapore, author of The Happy Learning Book for Siblings and founder of Happy Tot Shelf. She helps parents enjoy home learning with their children through her highly popular kids' activity membership, The Happy Learners' Club. Fynn has been featured in various newspapers, websites and on radio shows as an expert in early childhood learning and creative hands-on learning ideas.

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    1. Rachel Sing-Ee Tan says

      February 07, 2023 at 5:54 pm

      Thank you for being so generous with your ideas and resources.

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    2. Virajitha says

      February 08, 2023 at 9:11 am

      Very useful bundle

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