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.

Lacing is a great fine motor activity, and most kids go through a phase where they enjoy working with lacing cards. It helps promote focus and is a great quiet activity for kids to do in the car or to fill time in the classroom. And of course knowing how to lace is the beginning of knowing how to sew, which is great for all kids to learn (more on teaching kids to sew here).

There are lots of ways to make your own lacing cards. This one is just a pin but it’s easy to make lacing cards with any shape a child is into using cardboard and a nail to poke the holes. This could be fun for letter and number recognition or spelling the child’s name. Or try this version from Hey Azka, which uses a hole punch to make bigger holes so you can lace with shoe laces.

You can also just do lacing cards with paper, but it’s a great idea to print them on card stock and/or laminate them to make them sturdier for little hands. Homeschool Share has a set of alphabet lacing cards, which are free with email signup. Deceptively Educational has a set of number lacing cards with numbers 0 to 10.

Picklebums has some basic shape lacing cards, too.

Living Life and Learning has a bunch of cute printable lacing cards, including back to school designs, shoes kids can lace and learn to tie and ocean themed lacing cards. She also has tips for making your own lacing cards.

A Rose Tinted World made their lacing cards with craft foam, which makes them a little more durable than paper and you can cut it more easily than cardboard. They used a die cutting machine but you can also cut shapes by hand.

I also love the cat and mouse cards from Seam Whisperer. They also have some spring themed designs. So cute!

If you want to make lacing cards that are more open ended, check out this tutorial form Pretty Life Girls to make lacing cards that are more like geo boards. Theirs are made with wood but you can also do this with cardboard, craft foam or card stock.

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