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.

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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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