Printable Valentine’s Day Coloring and Activity Pages

Coloring pages are great to have in the art center in the classroom or to keep on hand at home for when you need a little something to do. I used to like to print out coloring and activity sheets and keep them in my bag for when we had to wait at a restaurant or doctor’s office, or just to keep around for those moments when we needed to fill time.

If you’re looking for Valentine’s Day printable activity and coloring pages, here are a few great options for you.

Giant full-size Table Cloth for coloring in – This is aimed at children, but I’d Love this on my dinner table too.

Just Reed Blog has a cute collection of coloring pages that you can print, color and use as valentines, or just have kids color to display around the house or the classroom.

Primary Games has a ton of cute coloring pages with a love theme, including more detailed adult-style coloring pages and really simple ones. I like this hearts in a jar one because you could print it out and have kids color it and write things/people they love on the hearts.

A Blog from the Pond has a collection of free Valentine’s Day coloring pages on the blog, and they also have a free to join coloring club where you can access even more pages on a range of themes.

Love gnomes? These Valentine’s Day gnome coloring sheets from Cenzerely Yours are super sweet and fun to color. She also has an I-spy printable.

Sunny Day Family has a great collection of coloring and activity sheets for Valentine’s Day including a word search, a robot you can cut, color and assemble, a maze, memory game pieces and more.

So Festive has another cute collection of 30 coloring pages for Valentine’s Day. The Girl Creative has a super cute diner-style activity sheet, and Hello Creative Family has a similar style sheet that’s all about puppy love. So cute!

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The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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