Valentine’s Day can be a time for schools to find magic in bringing creativity, caring, and fun to integrated curriculum opportunities. If you are a teacher planning for their classroom to celebrate or parents organizing an event at school, we have gathered some fun Valentine’s Day ideas for students to make the celebration amazing!
Heart Lacing Cards
Start Valentine’s Day on the right foot with an acceptable motor skill-enhancing craft activity. Students will be given heart-shaped cards cut out of colorful paper with holes punched around the edges. The kids can lace the yarn or ribbon back and forth through the holes to make an elegant, lacy effect. This is great for hand-eye coordination, and it is creative at the same time.
Valentine’s Day Mad Libs
This mad-lib-inspired game engages students in a silly, fun, education-oriented activity. Create a template with blanks for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Students fill in the blanks without knowing the context and share it at the end. It is hilarious and usually makes crazy stories because kids always have the best words for the blanks.
Guess How Many Candies
Add a little fun to Valentine’s Day in the classroom with this guessing game. Fill a jar with heart-shaped candies or some other type of treat, and have your students fill out a slip of paper to take a guess on how many pieces are in it.
All slips are returned to a box, and at the end of the day the student who had the number closest to how pieces are in the jar wins a prize—like a Valentine-themed pencil or sticker.
Make Your Own Emoji Valentines
Mix technology and creativity by asking the pupils to design their emoji, Valentines. Give out paper or digital creation tools where they can draw and color in heart emojis, symbolizing various emotions associated with the holiday.
Classroom Gratitude Wall
Setting up a gratitude wall, can be a great classroom activity for valentine’s day. Encourage the students to write notes of thanks or something they appreciate about any classmate. This would go a long way in building class cohesion and teaching students about looking for the good in people.
Heart Counting Game
Make math an adventure this with this school Valentine’s Day idea, so make a cute heart cut-and-paste number activity. Scatter cutouts of heart shapes around your classroom floor, each containing a number. Children can work alone or in pairs to find as many hearts as possible within a set time limit. They can also add the numbers on their hearts to see who collected the most.
Cooking Activity for Valentine’s Day
Bring a little sweetness into the classroom by providing a cooking activity for Valentine’s Day. Depending upon your age and the amount of resources, this can be as simple as heart-shaped cookies, fruit salads where the pieces have been cut in the shape of hearts, or as complex as decorating cupcakes. Cooking activities encourage teamwork, following instructions, and creativity.
Friendship Bracelets
Ask students to make Valentine-themed bracelets with beads on strings that come in red, pink, and white colors. You can even include charms with heart designs. Let the students create some for their friends, which they will later exchange with their peers to appreciate friendship.
Valentine’s Day Bookmarks
Integrate literacy and creativity by having students create bookmarks with this fun valentines day activity for students. You may hand out blank bar marks, a template, markers, stickers, and glitter. They can draw a Valentine’s Day-themed design and message in their bookmark setup.
Valentine’s Day Word Scramble
You can challenge the vocabulary and critical thinking of your students with a Valentine’s Day word scramble, otherwise known as providing them with a list of Valentine-themed words, where the letters are all jumbled up, and they have to make a correct Valentine’s Day-related word by unscrambling the letters.
