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

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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