Valentine’s Day Language Activities

Valentine’s Day is a good time to get kids thinking about expressing their appreciation for other people, and lots of language arts activities this time of year center on that. For younger kids, using heart shapes to reinforce basic concepts adds a lot of fun. Here are a bunch of Valentine’s Day language activities for kids of a range of ages.

Kids learning their sight words will enjoy these color by sight word coloring pages by 123 Homeschool 4 Me. Liz’s Early Learning Spot has a downloadable sight word board game with a heart theme.

Or you can make your sight words appear by magic by writing them in white crayon on this printable from Playdough to Plato and having the kids uncover and read the word (using marker or watercolor paint).

Teach Beside Me used paper hearts to teach about homonyms, synonyms and antonyms, and this is an easy one you can do yourself without any printables (unless you need a template for the heart shape). You could make this one into a scavenger hunt by hiding words around the room and then having kids match up the correct hearts.

Rhyming words are always fun for little kids, and this printable from Only Passionate Curiosity lets kids play with rhyming words in heart shapes. Here again you could sprinkle the words around the room and have kids collect ones that rhyme (the printable pack includes envelopes they can use to gather their rhymes in).

The jar of gratitude from Inspired Elementary is great to do as a classroom, or each child can fill their own jar with things they love and are thankful for.

Composition Classroom has a fun Valentine’s Day limerick/Mad Libs style poem printable that’s great for upper elementary and middle school kids. It’s a free download on Teachers Pay Teachers.

And this sweet printable from What Have I Learned Teaching gets kids to reflect on things they like about themselves.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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