Print and Color Valentines for Kids

Whether you need a coloring page or several for the art area, or for kids to use when waiting for something else to happen, or you’re looking for semi-homemade valentines, these printable Valentine’s Day coloring pages and valentines are a great thing to have on hand this time of year.

If you’re the type of parent who likes the idea of homemade cards, but not the execution, these are a great way to have kids participate in making the cards without all the mess, time and effort that might go into more handmade greetings.

There are a lot of big collections of Valentine’s coloring pages for kids online, including this great collection from Skip to My Lou. There are heart mandalas, Valentine gnomes, hearts with sentiments you can cut out and color and use as valentines. To print any of them just click on the photo and a full size version will pop up.

Crayola also has some printable valentines, coloring pages and games link bingo. There are also printable tags you can add to crayons if you want to give a colorful valentine.

The Gingerbread House has cute (and food themed!) printable Valentine’s Day bookmarks you can print, color and give, or keep in the library area of the classroom. Taste of the Frontier has another set of printable bookmarks to check out.

Crafts on Sea has a couple of sets of valentine cards to print and color, including these cute ones (or should I say sweet?) and some adorable puppy themed valentines. So cute!

Crazy Little Projects has five cute coloring pages with a Valentine’s twist (the bee mine one is probably my favorite because I love a good pun).

And Kitchen Table Classroom has a collection of eight free printable Valentine’s Day cards, which would be great for kids to print, color and distribute to teachers and friends. They all have pretty simple designs so they should be quick to color even if you need to do a bunch for a whole classroom.

With little kids especially, linking learning to physical activity really does help them learn. Movement can help kids focus, and it just keeps them from sitting still all day, which isn’t good for anyone.

The good news is lots of different learning activities can be adopted to get kids moving while they learn, so let’s look at some math and number activities that use gross motor skills.

Probably the most obvious thing would be hopscotch, which helps kids count while they hop. You can also mix up the numbers, do skip counting with the numbers, give kids a simple math problem and have them hop to the correct answer, and on and on.

This number hop game from Gift of Curiosity is a more chaotic version, with number flash cards on the floor that kids can hop, skip or jump to as you call them out (this one is more for individual number identification than counting). It’s a great indoor option if it’s too hot, cold or rainy out to do traditional hopscotch, too.

This painter’s tape number line idea from Days with Grey doesn’t involve quite as much movement, but kids can move around while they place things on the number line and work on learning about one to one correspondence. In the blog post they use shoes, but you can count anything you’ve got handy. (Be warned when I visited this website had an ad that continually took up the whole page, but you can get the idea pretty quickly.)

One of the important tasks of learning numbers is learning a parent’s phone number just in case it’s ever needed, or how to dial 911 in case on an emergency. Teaching Mama has a great way to practice telephone numbers and get some movement in with a giant telephone keypad made out of paper plates. You can also use this for counting practice, but it’s a great idea for learning phone numbers, too.

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