Valentine’s Day Activities and Decor for the Classroom

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.

Leif Erikson Day is celebrated on Oct. 9, and it’s a great time to learn more about the Vikings and why we still remember Erikson all these years later.

If you don’t know about Leif Erikson (sometimes spelled Eriksson), he’s believed to have been born in Iceland, and is considered the first European to set foot on continental America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a printable mini book about Leif Erikson and the Vikings for kids to read and color. It talks about who the Vikings were, what kind of ships they used, how they got to America and more. It’s a good overview for younger kids to use.

A good unit study is available from Simple Living Creative Learning, which includes a page where kids can write what they know, what they want to learn and what they learned through the unit, as well as information on the Vikings, longships, helmets, clothing and more.

Get a printable Viking unit study with reading passages, comprehension questions and other activities aimed at grades 4-8 from Creative Classroom Core at Teachers Pay Teachers. (And see more Vikings content from TPT here.)

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has some great unit study ideas, too, including suggested books and videos. The post includes information about the Viking voyages, society, mythology and ships, as well as some vocabulary and a list of famous Vikings. While you’re over there also check out her free printable lapbook, which includes mini books on ships, a timeline, a Viking women coloring page, draw your own Vikings, geography, ancient runes and more.

Piqolo Kids has a lesson on Viking women with (available for purchase) worksheets about a day in the life of Viking women. Even if you don’t grab the printables there’s some good resources on that page and a link to a video on Viking women.

Learn how to draw a Viking ship with instructions from Drawing How to Draw, or grab Vikings coloring and labeling worksheets from Kids Puzzles and Games.

There’s a Leif Erikson Festival annually in Norway, Michigan, which you can learn more about here.

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