Valentine Activity Pack

Description

This Valentine Activity Pack provides opportunities to develop important preschool and kindergarten skills in a fun way including reading and building sight words, matching uppercase and lowercase letters, counting to 10 and much more. 

What’s included in this Valentine Activity Pack?

Literacy Activities

• Alphabet Hunt: Students search for and cover the target letter on each candy heart-themed activity mat.
• Valentine Alphabet Chart: Two variations which can be used in various settings including in your writing station.
• Write the Room Alphabet Matching: Use these two sets of cards, uppercase and lowercase letters, and the recording worksheet to create a fun Write the Room activity.
• Read and Build Sight Words: Students choose a word and add it to the mat, then read it and build it using magnetic letters, playdough stamps, etc.
• 3-Part Cards: Featuring a range of Valentine’s vocabulary and matching pictures.
• Writing Pages: Each page features dotted writing lines and a Valentine’s-themed picture prompt.
• Beginning Sound + Letter Paint Mats: Students search for and cover the candy hearts containing the target letter. This also includes a set of mats that work on identifying the letter sound.
• Match the Word: Students match the picture to the vocabulary word on this worksheet.
• Do-A-Dot Alphabet: Students search for and dot the correct matching letter. 

Math Activities

• Task Card Shape Mats: Match either shape buttons or the shape tokens included to each of the shape mats.
• Stack the Number: Using counting cubes, students stack the correct number of blocks on each number.
• Valentine’s Tens Frames: Students use mini erasers or small objects to build each number on the tens frame, make the numeral out of playdough and trace the number using a dry erase marker.
• Task Card Counting Flowers: Students count the flowers and either write or model the number using magnetic numbers.
• Size Sequencing Cards: Students order the pictures in order according to their size.
• Number Cards: Featuring both numerals and number words, these cards can be matched or used for different games.
• Dominoes: A fun game to play by matching Valentine’s pictures.
• Count the Objects: Students count and record how many there are of each item.
• Count and Clip Cards: Students count the chocolates and clip the correct number.
• Counting Cube Mats: Students use these activity mats to create a Valentine’s themed picture along with the number guide to gather the correct number of blocks of each color.
• Skip Counting Puzzles: Featuring Valentine’s pictures and counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s.

Fine Motor Skills Activities

• Tracing Strips: A set of tracing cards which can be simply printed or laminated for use with dry erase markers.
• Alphabet Tracing: Tracing strips and task cards to practice uppercase and lowercase letters.
• Playdough Mats: Students use these fun playdough mats to make different Valentine themed pictures.
• Cutting Practice: Cutting strips for students to practice using scissors.
• Fingerprint Activity: Students use paint to dot their fingerprint on each spot on these pictures.

Other Themed Activities

• Patterns: Including counting cube color patterns  to complete and cut and paste pattern worksheets.
• Other Activities: Including Do-A-Dot pages, a picture dice graphing game, a Love Monster to color and more.
• Puzzles: Picture and picture to word matching puzzles.
• Puppets: Attach each of these characters to paddle pop sticks for dramatic play and role playing experiences. 
• Crafts:  Includes a bubblegum name craft, butterfly craft with optional writing component, and a bear craft.
• Themed Worksheets: Including Name Spelling, tracing and alphabet ordering.

This Valentine Activity Pack is perfect for the following learning settings:

⭐ As part of your morning work during February

⭐ As a math or literacy center during a unit on Valentine’s Day, holidays or celebrations.

⭐ With small groups of students with a particular focus, e.g. counting objects to 10.

How to prepare this Valentine Activity Pack?

✂️ Simply print and laminate each component, if desired. 

✂️ Both color and black and white formats are included where possible to suit your individual printing needs.

Suggested materials:

✏️ Pencils / coloring materials

✏️ Scissors

✏️ Glue

✏️ Bingo markers

✏️ Pegs

✏️ Paddle Pop sticks

✏️ Counting cubes

✏️ Paint

✏️ Playdough