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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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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