Huge Collection of Preschool Valentine's Day Activities (2024)

Inside: These 50+ Preschool Valentine’s Day Activities are sure to add some heart-shaped fun to your preschool classroom. Includes ideas for all categories of learning!

Every year when I start to see Valentine’s Day items appear in the stores, I start to get excited.

Have youseenthe Dollar Spot in Target in February? Pink, purple, sparkly heart-shaped items- it never fails to pull me in!

Since it is one of my favorite themes aesthetically, I compiled this mega-collection of over 50 Valentine’s Day Preschool Activitiesfor your toddlers to engage in the fun!

From fine motor to art to literacy activities, these ideas are sure to fill your classroom or home with pink glittery fun during the month of February.

👉 Scroll down to find free Valentine’s Day printables!

Huge Collection of Preschool Valentine’s Day Activities

Art Activities

1. Spin Art Hearts – Place paint inside of a salad spinner to decorate heart-shaped pieces of paper.
2. Marble Painted Hearts – Coat marbles in paint and spoon them onto the paper to roll around and create a unique pattern.
3. Simple Valentine’s Bags – Have your toddlers decorate white lunch bags to use as their Valentine’s boxes in class.
4. Rainbow Heart Suncatchers – Use tissue paper pieces to create a heart-shaped suncatcher on plastic or contact paper. (Fireflies and Mud Pies)
5. Valentine’s Headbands – Preschoolers will decorate their own headbands using foam hearts and pipe cleaners for a fun holiday headband. (Events to Celebrate)
6. Heart Symmetry – Just like inkblot shapes, fold the heart paper in half after painting on it to create symmetry. (The Artful Parent)
7. Paper Wreath – Toddlers will glue paper hearts and other decorations onto the cardboard ring to make a colorful wreath. (The Spruce Crafts)
8. DIY Heart Stamps – Make your own heart stamps to use during your art activities using clothespins and heart-shaped foam or cardboard. (Fantastic Fun and Learning)
9. Card Making Center – Create a dramatic play card-making station where preschoolers can “mail” their cards. (A Pinch of Kinder)
10. Love Birds – Use paper plates to make these super cute and colorful love birds. (Arty Crafty Kids)
11. Handprint Trees – Cut out a tracing of the toddlers’ hand and have them stamp hearts around it to create a heart tree. (The Preschool Toolbox)
12. Heart Bouquet – Toddlers will decorate heart ‘flowers’ with various materials and textures to create a bouquet. (Arty Crafty Kids)
13. Conversation Heart Frame – For a valentine’s present, toddlers will decorate a popsicle stick frame with conversation hearts. (Preschool Inspirations)
14. Heart-Shaped Crayons – Cut up various colors of crayons and melt them into new multicolored crayons using a heart-shaped cupcake tin. (Princess Pinky Girl)

Sensory Activities

1. Frozen Hearts Sensory Bin – Use a heart-shaped ice cube tray to fill a sensory bin with colorful frozen hearts.
2. Touch and Feel Hearts – Glue various objects onto paper hearts for toddlers to feel and explore various textures. (Simple Play Ideas)
3. Valentine’s Soup – Fill your sensory bin with beautiful pink water and foam hearts for sensory water transfer play. (Fun At Home With Kids)
4. Candy Hearts Oobleck – Add candy hearts to your oobleck for some fun messy play. (Little Bins for Little Hands)
5. Pink Foam – Mix up some pink or purple foam using gentle soap, water, and food coloring to fill your sensory bin with. (Fun At Home With Kids)
6. Valentine’s Playdough Table – Whip up your own purple, pink, red, and/or white sparkly playdough and set the table with letter stamps for preschoolers to stamp words into their dough. (Playground Park Bench)
7. Oil and Water Bin – For a science sensory activity, fill a container with baby oil and have toddlers use an eyedropper to transfer red-colored water and watch how they separate. (Little Bins for Little Hands)
8. Felt Hearts – Cut out a larger felt heart and smaller felt hearts for toddlers to stick them together. (Megan Kunkel)
9. Mixing Color Hearts – Place two different colors of paint on each side of the heart inside of a zip-lock bag and have toddlers mix them together, creating a new color. (A Little Pinch of Perfect)
10. Glitter Slime – Mix red glitter glue with liquid starch to make this beautiful sparkly sensory slime. (Inspiration Laboratories)

Fine Motor Activities

1. Hole Punching Heart – Toddlers will use a hole puncher on paper hearts to strengthen the squeezing muscles in their hands. (Early Learning Ideas)
2. Lacing Hearts – Use hole-punched foam hearts and shoelaces for little hands to practice lacing through the holes. (Coffee Cups and Crayons)
3. Broken Hearts Cutting – Draw various lines on heart-shaped papers for toddlers to practice following with their scissor skills. (School Time Snippets)
4. Heart Tracing – Trace the dotted lines to create some hearts and fill them in. (Coloring Bpr)
5. Find the Hearts – Use giant tweezers to find and remove the hearts from the sensory bin of rice. (Gift of Curiosity)
6. Yarn Wrapped Hearts – Cut out cardboard hearts for toddlers to wrap yarn around until it is filled. (Easy Peasy and Fun)
7. Scoop and Transfer – Use teaspoon measuring scoops to transfer sparkly pom-poms from a bowl into ice cube trays. (The Imagination Tree)
8. Heart Gluing – Place dots on a heart cutout with a marker and preschoolers will squeeze dots of glue on them to press smaller hearts onto. Great for practicing gluing control. (Playdough to Plato)
9. Sponge Stamping – Cut heart shapes out of pink sponges for little hands to practice stamping with paint. (Mrs. Plemons’ Kindergarten)

Sorting Activities

1. Counting and Color Sorting Hearts – Sort small foam hearts onto the correct color heart using this free printable.
2. Pom-pom Color Sorting – Use a small pair of tongs to sort pom-poms by color into the matching color tube. (I Heart Crafty Things)
3. Heart Size Match – Provide various sizes of heart-shaped cookie cutters for toddlers to figure out which size matches with the traced heart on the paper. (Stay at Home Educator)
4. Color Sorting Cups– Attach foam hearts to sticks for preschoolers to place into the cups with the matching color hearts. (Child Care Land)
5. Bead Sorting – Place multiple colors of heart beads in a bowl for preschoolers to sort into different colors. (Stay at Home Educator)
6. Paperclip Colors – Slide colorful paperclips onto the matching color paper heart for both sorting and fine motor practice. (Child Care Land)

Large Motor Activities

1. Heart Hopscotch – Create a heart-patterned hopscotch path using colorful paper. (Toddler Approved)
2. Scavenger Hunt – Hide hearts around for toddlers to search for together! (Wildly Charmed)
3. Balance Beam – Line hearts up on the ground for toddlers to use as a safe balance beam. (ILS Learning Corner)
4. Heart Toss – Hang a heart ring to aim and toss bean bags through. (Little Family Fun)
5. Cupid’s Arrow Toss – Create ‘Cupid’s arrows’ out of straws and paper and have preschoolers try to aim and toss them onto number plates. (Playground Park Bench)
6. Bean Bag Toss – Use empty red containers and number them for preschoolers to aim and toss bean bags into. Includes a tutorial for creating your own heart-shaped bean bags! (Preschool Toolkit)

Literacy Activities

1. Letter Mats – Whip up some pink or red playdough for toddlers to trace the letters on these mats using the dough. (The Letters of Literacy)
2. Name Puzzle – Create a puzzle by writing the preschoolers’ name on a heart and cut it into pieces containing one letter each. (How Wee Learn)
3. Alphabet Heart Match – Toddlers will match the letters on the paper hearts to the letters on the larger paper for letter recognition. (Twin Talk)
4. Letter Writing Tray – Fill a tray with salt and Valentine’s sprinkles for toddlers to trace letters into. (Pocket of Preschool)
5. Broken Heart Letters – Preschoolers will search through the heart halves to find and match up the uppercase and lowercase letters. (Toddler Approved)
6. Letter Practice – Laminate these free letter printables for preschoolers to practice tracing the letters on with a dry-erase marker. (The Letters of Literacy)

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Free Printables

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