Valentine’s Day Themed Math Activities

Valentine’s Day is a great time to incorporate holiday themes in the classroom. We could all use some colors by this time in winter, and the idea of showing love and friendship to everyone in the classroom is one we can all get behind.

Here are some easy Valentine’s Day math activities you can do in the classroom or at home.

If your child loves math then they will Love these Heart, Love themed Projects all about math. A Fun way to celebrate the day.

If you have conversation hearts on hand, you can do this Valentine’s Day math activity in several parts from 123 Homeschool 4 Me. It starts as a dice rolling game, then you chart the hearts of each color and do some math with those numbers. The free printables are available on the website.

Here’s another chart you can use to sort and graph conversation hearts by color. It’s from A Little Pinch of Perfect.

Use conversation hearts or another small manipulative like heart shaped buttons or pompoms to measure the height of the flowers on this printable from Buggy and Buddy.

And speaking of pompoms, use them to roll and fill a heart-shaped cookie cutter using the activity from Modern Preschool. Little kids can count how many pom poms they use, while older kids can count how many of each color and add them together.

Fun-a-Day has printable Valentine’s number cards you can use for all sorts of math activities, and kids can practice math facts (addition and multiplication) with these printable heart to heart games from Games 4 Learning. Or use dice to roll math equations and solve them with manipulatives on the Valentine’s heart mat from The Kindergarten Connection.

And because we were talking about pattern blocks recently, here’s a pattern block printable to make a heart shape from Stay at Home Educator.

Of course this is a topic we’ve covered a lot through the years, so if you need more inspiration, check out Easy Valentine’s Day Math Activities, Math and Science Related Valentine Activities and Valentine’s Addition and Subtraction Printables to name a few.

Valentine’s Day books for children

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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