Valentine’s Day Printables and Activities for Kids

As you can imagine I’ve done a lot of Valentine’s Day content over the years (see, for example, heart activities and Valentine’s Day STEM, to name a couple) so this year I thought I’d share something different with a bunch of Valentine’s Day printable activities.

Learn Grow Aspire has a nice set of printable activity mats that include coloring, a word scramble, word search, I-spy, spot the difference and more. One sheet (shown above) has a bunch of activities but there are others that include tracing and coloring.

Another activity sheet that’s like a placemat is from XOXO Erin Smith. This one includes a word search, maze, things to color and a few tic tac toe boards. Classic. She also has coloring pages and an I spy page.

Connect the dots on cute Valentine’s Day critters with these printables from The Artisan Life. The love bug is my favorite!

Unscramble words, work a big maze and do a Valentine’s Day themed crossword puzzle with these printables from Artsy Fartsy Mama.

Get a bunch of educational worksheets for preschool from Preschool Play and Learn. These include things like tracing hearts, roll a color, shape learning, patterns, letter recognition, counting and more. Great for use in the classroom or at home.

Looking for fun ideas for older kids? Brain Waves Instruction has a bunch of ideas for using a valentine theme to review vocabulary, do timed writing, spelling, and learning about Valentine’s Day. Many of the projects are found at Teachers Pay Teachers if you don’t want to personalize it for your own class.

And Raise the Bar Reading has some cute low-prep ideas for elementary students, including making a creature based on your answers to questions about Valentine’s Day, a classroom activity full of love, people bingo with a Valentine’s theme and some sweet writing prompts.

How do you use Valentine’s Day in the classroom or for learning activities at home? I’d love to hear about it!

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When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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