With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, you may be looking for fun, content-based Valentine’s Day classroom activities to use with your elementary students. Below is a list of 10 free Valentine’s Day lesson plan ideas for students in grades K-5. The list contains a mixture of math, science, fine motor, grammar, writing, and digital activities that are sure to be a hit with your students this February.
Scroll down for a list of 10 FREE Valentine’s Day Classroom Lesson Plans and Activities for Elementary Students.
February Math Centers for 2nd Grade
Engage your students during the month of February with these hands-on 2nd grade math centers! With 10 different activities to choose from + differentiated styles, planning for math workshop will be a breeze!
Free Valentine’s Day Activities & Lessons
1. FREE Subtraction with Regrouping Task Cards
These cute Valentine’s Day themed task cards are perfect for practicing subtraction with regrouping. Students can walk around the room to solve or use them in a Valentine’s Day themed math centers.
Author: Sweet Tooth Teaching
2. Graph by Color Candy Hearts
Everyone loves the classic conversation heart candy. Why not put them to use in the classroom to practice graphing. Lower elementary students will enjoy graphing their conversation hearts by color using the graph template provided!
3. Heart Multiplication
This Heart to Heart Valentine’s Day multiplication activity gives students practice with multiplication facts. To play, students will compete as they color one number in the smaller heart (product) and then color two numbers in the bigger hearts (factor).
4. Candy Heart Science Valentine’s Day Classroom Activity
Grab some conversation heart candy and allow your little scientists to make predictions and observations about how the candy will react in different types of liquids such as water, soda, and vinegar. This would make a great science lesson during the month of February.
5. Valentine’s Day Measurement PlayDoh Mat
This measurement activity allows students to practice math skills using PlayDoh. Students will roll out their clay, measure, and compare lengths. Plus, there are cute little tags you can attach to make Valentine’s Day gifts for your students.
Click here to grab the FREE measurement playdoh mat resource.
6. Free Parts of Speech Sorting Valentine’s Day Activity
This measurement activity allows students to practice math skills using PlayDoh. Students will roll out their clay, measure, and compare lengths. Plus, there are cute little tags you can attach to make Valentine’s Day gifts for your students.
Click here to grab the FREE parts of speech sorting resource.
7. Fraction Mat
Reviewing fractions with your 2nd and 3rd grade students? Add a sweet touch to forming and representing fractions by having students roll the dice to create their own fraction. Then allow students to represent the fraction by adding sprinkles to their ice cream cone mat!
Author: Sweet Tooth Teaching
8. Input/Output Robot
Input/ output activities give students the ability to practice creating their own rules to manipulate numbers. Students make a rule such as doubling or multiplying and then create an input and output list of numbers that follow their rule. These valentine robots are a cute touch to this fun math activity and would make an adorable February bulletin board display!
9. I Love You a Latte Writing Prompt
Students will enjoy brainstorming the qualities they love about someone special in their life. They’ll then bring them to life by writing about them using this adorable latte-themed writing prompt.
10. Digital Valentine’s Day Slides for Grades 4-5
Covering various subjects, these Valentine’s slides feature activities for students to practice fractions, idioms, and story writing. All activities are bound to keep students on track and excited about learning.
I hope these Valentine’s Day classroom activities keep your students engaged during this sweet time of year!
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Looking for more activities to implement this month? Check out these kindness activities for elementary students or these 15 books about kindness and empathy which are the perfect addition to your plans this February.
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