Valentine’s Day Puzzles and Projects for Kids

If you’re looking for Valentine’s Day projects than can be used as valentines or decor for the holiday, here are a few fun options. They incorporate some fun STEM concepts like pattern making, logical thinking and secret codes. These are great for elementary kids to make and use for cards or classroom decoration.

This printable tanagram project from the Gingerbread House is an easy one for kids to color, cut out the shapes and arrange them into a heart shape. These can be used to make cards, or make a banner or bunting for the classroom out of everyone’s designs.

Practice computational thinking while you craft this resist art patchwork heart from Our Family Code. The post explains the challenge (and what computational thinking means) and how to make this pretty project using supplies you probably already have at home or in the classroom.

Add a secret code to your valentines with crayon and watercolor, as shown in this post from Inspirations Laboratories via Red Ted Art. The post also includes information about how to make a secret code if you want to add another layer of fun to your creations.

Looking for more fun Valentine’s Day projects? These printable bookmarks are cute and can be used as valentines either colored in or not. And speaking of Red Ted Art, she’s got a lot of great easy valentines ideas you can try as well.

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Giving math a holiday twist is fun for kids of any age, but little ones especially will have more fun learning math concepts when there’s a bit of Christmas involved. Check out more Christmas math activities for older kids here.

Teaching Mama has a great set of printable Christmas activities for preschoolers, most of with have some connection to math. There’s connect the dots, repeating patterns, counting, color by number, number puzzles and more. And it’s totally free!

Practice counting by making candy canes with pipe cleaners and beads. This is such an easy activity and a great idea, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before. Get all the details from Nurture Store. You could also turn these into little wreaths or other holiday shapes if you want.

Print out the counting mats from Living Life and Learning, grab some festive little pompoms or other counters (Christmas erasers, coins in red and green, whatever you have handy) and kids can practice counting numbers from 1 to 12 and working on one to one correspondence.

Preschool Play and Learn has a similar idea using Christmas tree shapes, but these don’t have spaces for you to add the decorations, just numbers for the number to add to each one. These are meant to be playdough mats, but you could also use pom poms, beads or even miniature Christmas ornaments to decorate your trees while you count to 20.

Or try these printable Christmas number puzzles from Math Kids and Chaos. The two-part puzzles feature a number on one side and the same number of some Christmas-themed thing on the other side. The edges of the pieces only match with the one that’s correct. You could combine this one with a counting activity to have kids count out the number of counters that the numeral shows, then match with the piece that shows that number of things and count them again. The set includes puzzles with numbers one to 10 and ten frames with numbers one to 20.

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