Valentine’s Day Activities and Decor for the Classroom

February 3, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Looking for some easy activities for the classroom to do around Valentine’s Day, or need some new ideas for classroom decor to show your kiddos some love? Check out these posts full of great (and simple) ideas.

Chaylor & Mads has collected a bunch of ideas for door decorations, bulletin board themes and treat ideas you can use in the classroom for Valentine’s Day.

Fun Learning for Kids has an easy, low-prep printable classroom activity for Valentine’s Day. You just print out the hearts with different numbers of hearts or dots on them and hang or hide them around the room, down the hall, etc. Kids get a printed sheet where they can practice writing the numbers of the different numbers they see. (She has some other great ideas, too, if you click through and scroll down in the post.)

Pocket of Preschool has ideas for centers with a Valentine twist. Some of these are sensory, some she has paid printables for, or you can use these ideas to set up your own simple centers in the classroom (or at home for little ones).

Raise the Bar Reading has a lot of great ideas for low-prep centers and activities. Some of them are printables available through Teachers Pay Teachers, but one of them is a free printable that can help kids get to know wach other a little better: people bingo!

If you’re looking for a more traditional bingo game to play with your students to fill time or to use during a party, check out the printable Valentine’s Day bingo cards from the Girl Creative. These adorable cards would also be super fun for kids to color in before or while you are playing. She also has an I-spy printable game and a collection of super cute color by number coloring pages for different skill levels.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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