Valentines in Different Languages for Kids to Print or Make

I was looking at different Valentines that kids can print or make the other day, and I came across a set of printable Spanish language valentines, which would be so cute for a Spanish teacher to give out, or just for a kiddo who wants to do something unique for this fun day of love.

My daughter has been in a Spanish class since kindergarten so we definitely could have used these (or a teacher could have!) at some point in her school career.

You can find these printable Spanish valentines at Lorena y Lennox. She also has printable flashcards with Spanish Valentine’s Day vocabulary.

Finding these inspired me to poke around a little more for valentines using different languages. I also found printable valentines in French from the Yellow Birdhouse. These, too, are great for kids learning French or someone who wants to add a little something extra fancy to their greetings.

If your kids are more into DIY valentines, how about making valentine with the sign for I love you on them? These are pretty easy to do and would be fun for parents or grandparents because you can trace the child’s hand and have an accurate sizing of what their hand looked like that year. Get the instructions from Taming Little Monsters.

If you want to make your own valentines in different languages, here are some handy phrases in Italian and German, too! It’s so fun to add another language to your celebrations and help everyone learn something new.

With little kids especially, linking learning to physical activity really does help them learn. Movement can help kids focus, and it just keeps them from sitting still all day, which isn’t good for anyone.

The good news is lots of different learning activities can be adopted to get kids moving while they learn, so let’s look at some math and number activities that use gross motor skills.

Probably the most obvious thing would be hopscotch, which helps kids count while they hop. You can also mix up the numbers, do skip counting with the numbers, give kids a simple math problem and have them hop to the correct answer, and on and on.

This number hop game from Gift of Curiosity is a more chaotic version, with number flash cards on the floor that kids can hop, skip or jump to as you call them out (this one is more for individual number identification than counting). It’s a great indoor option if it’s too hot, cold or rainy out to do traditional hopscotch, too.

This painter’s tape number line idea from Days with Grey doesn’t involve quite as much movement, but kids can move around while they place things on the number line and work on learning about one to one correspondence. In the blog post they use shoes, but you can count anything you’ve got handy. (Be warned when I visited this website had an ad that continually took up the whole page, but you can get the idea pretty quickly.)

One of the important tasks of learning numbers is learning a parent’s phone number just in case it’s ever needed, or how to dial 911 in case on an emergency. Teaching Mama has a great way to practice telephone numbers and get some movement in with a giant telephone keypad made out of paper plates. You can also use this for counting practice, but it’s a great idea for learning phone numbers, too.

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